> Ice storage air conditioning is already a thing in some places to take advantage of cheap electricity at night, Most of South Asia still relies on ice for ai

> Ice storage air conditioning is already a thing in some places to take advantage of cheap electricity at night, Most of South Asia still relies on ice for air conditioning, and food storage, and that hasn't changed in a century. Why? People there only buy it for a few weeks in a year, during extreme heat, or when they slaughter livestock to preserve meat. It's not yet economical for people to put few hundred dollars into an appliance they use few weeks in a year. A lot of places may not even have electricity there in the first place.