Many consumers will just replace the outside compressor unit when it fails and limp along with a smaller interior evaporator coil, negating most of the energy savings.

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The efficient compressor lets you afford a bigger unit -- a frost-free one, with an icemaker -- and you're right back where you started.

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For every unit of energy to drive the compressor, the pump yields four units of heat.

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Each LNG In A Box unit is fully equipped with a gas pre-treatment system, cold box assembly and boil off gas compressor as well as a GE's turboexpander compressor, high-speed reciprocating compressor, electric motor, driver and control system.

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