Interesting problem… how do you store energy when it comes in the form of small heat differentials? That sounds like one hell of an interesting battery.
Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours
SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoWell, try storing heat for later use. How do you do this as a temperature battery?
An efficient device like solar panels are still much much less effective without batteries. In the same vein, producing or moving heat right now doesn’t mean some other room or device needs the excess or inverse right now.
Nobody runs a dryer constantly, for example. If there’s barely any heat to pull when it is needed, how do you solve for that? Generating heat goes against the goal of recycling it with a central system.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump
You can have both!
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Most houses have hot water tanks
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If you watch the video, you’ll understand that the temperature transfer process to a hot water tank is incredibly slow. So, water tanks are not a very good battery.
I mean, unless you want to spend 12 hours trying to dry your clothes.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
But that’s not a technical limit, it’s a cost saving engineering limit