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How does that store energy for the grid?

• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Reduces grid demand by localizing the energy, storing it on site thermally. Air conditioners that make ice at night and cool during the day do the same.
  • wrycoder 6y ago
    Freeman Dyson devised an a/c system at Princeton that involved using snow making machines to generate a large pile of ice in an insulated shed during the winter (with the doors open) and circulated coolant through the ice pile and the buildings in the summer (with the shed doors closed).
    • pfdietz 6y ago
      Freeman Dyson wrote about it, but it was Ted Taylor who did it, I think.
    • aitchnyu 6y ago
      There is a passive ice pile technique, but for producing water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Stupa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Stupa