Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But that’s not a technical limit, it’s a cost saving engineering limit

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