We could all save lots of money by getting rid of our refrigerators and doing what my great-grandparents did. They had a hand-dug cellar in the back yard, lined with straw, roofed with solid wood, and several layers of straw bales on that roof. They also stacked bales in front of the door. Every winter, they'd take off the roof and pack the cellar with snow, packed down hard enough to become ice. Of course, this involved a lot of shoveling snow, hauling snow, and packing snow...but it worked. They replaced the roof when it warmed up, removed it again when it snowed again, and kept at it until they had enough ice to last the summer.
Of course, it's a little less convenient than a refrigerator. You certainly don't want to unstack the bales every time you want a drink...but it would do the job for nothing more than many hours of back breaking labor.
I can't figure out why all those global-warming, climate change believers aren't already doing this??
