ప్రశ్న: రెఫ్రిజరేటర్లోని వస్తువులు చల్లబడతాయి కదా. మరి రెఫ్రిజరేటర్ తలుపును తెరిచి ఉంచితే గది చల్లబడుతుందా?
Does opening a refrigerator cool down the room?
Kitchen refrigerators, though, are normally not so located. They vent the heat out of the refrigerator (usually out the back), but not out of the building or even the room. The intent is to remove heat from the space inside the refrigerator, not from the room in general.
In fact, if you leave the door open for more than a very brief moment, the room will actually get warmer overall. Another implication of the laws of thermodynamics is that work (defined as a process that uses energy) is never 100% efficient, so there will always be some amount of energy that is used but does not contribute to the work’s results. Normally, this energy escapes the system as heat.
In this case, the energy being used to do the work is electricity, which is transformed into mechanical energy in the motor that drives the pump that keeps the refrigerant moving through the cycle that moves the heat. A small amount of that electrical energy becomes heat due to friction in the motor, and that heat makes its way into the system’s environment. The longer you leave the door open, the warmer the room will get.