| ▲ | animal531 18 hours ago | |
Where I live we need a way to store and distribute cold as needed. | ||
| ▲ | Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
They are a very efficient way to get both AC and Heating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zrx-b2sLUs Unless you live in a cold climate, they are worth it for a discounted energy bill =3 | ||
| ▲ | burnt-resistor 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Stanford's cogen plant has an underground "ice cube" for campus/municipal chilled water infrastructure. Perhaps scaling something like that makes sense or perhaps to use an absorption heat pump (AHP) that can operate like and the reverse of an Einstein–Szilard refrigerator? | ||