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+Will I someday change my mind and buy the X-Pro2? Probably. I'm no different than you, not better than you. 
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 I dislike upgrading things. This is why I have, at the age of, ahem, forty plus let's say, owned only 4 cars (two of which I still own), have more than a few t-shirts that are over a decade old and am typing this on an eight year old laptop. 
 
 This is less a testament to my frugality than my deep-seated belief that if it ain't broke, there's no need to change anything.
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 I've been thinking about this a lot lately for two reasons: rebuilding the bus and testing the brand new Fujifilm X-Pro2 for Wired. 
 
-Rebuilding the bus has required some deep research and thinking about what stuff we actually need. Refrigerator? Well, really we need a way to keep a few things cold for a week at a time. An icebox and a 12V freezer that only needs to run when making ice or freezing food uses far less energy than a 2 way fridge that's always running.
+Rebuilding the bus has required some deep research and thinking about what stuff we actually need. A lot of the things we use for convenience are just that, conveniences, not requirements. There's nothing wrong with convenience exactly, but it has costs. 
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+To use the example that leaves everyone scratching their head, let's talk about the refrigerator I tore out. Unlike the air conditioner, which I did tear out because I hate it, I didn't tear the 2-way propane/12v fridge because I hate refrigeration. I did tear it out in part because I wanted to learn to live without refrigeration, but also because I backed up and looked at the problem refrigeration is trying to solve.
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+No one needs refrigerator. What we need is a way to keep food from becoming in edible. In our case in the bus that means a way to keep a few things cold for two weeks, or, ideally, for convenience sake, indefinitely. But wait, what food? And how cold does it need to be? Which foods actually need to be refrigerated? 
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+At it turns out almost nothing in your refrigerator needs to be there. A lot of it is even better if you take it out. Fruit is better when not refrigerated, ditto most vegetables. Some veggies will keep long when cool though. Leftovers need to either say hot or cool. Meat needs to stay cool. So then, after starting way back at the beginning -- what needs to be refrigerated -- I realized we didn't need a fridge at all. An icebox and a 12V freezer that only needs to run when making ice or freezing food uses far less energy and can be powered entirely by the sun. Freeze the foods when you buy them, make ice when you need it and put everything in the icebox. Eat the food as it thaws, store the rest in cool dry container, mesh baskets and so on. The problem gets solved without the excess energy draw and without the noise of a fridge running all the time.
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+Like so many experiments I've done through this site, I will keep you posted on how well my theory hold up in real world experience. I'm not worried though.
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