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That is a good idea for places that need heat.

• zo1 3y ago
  Do the opposite (make lots of cold water) for places that need cooling. Am I missing something?
  • mcculley 3y ago
    The energy difference between ambient-temp-to-frozen and ambient-temp to steam is much larger. I would think that this affects scalability. I live in a city center that uses chilled water for some use cases, but it certainly does not seem scalable enough to be an "easy technical remedy" to the issues of distribution being expensive.
    • pfdietz 3y ago
      A home central A/C would use a volume of ice of maybe a cubic meter, if that. This doesn't seem excessive.
  • _ea1k 3y ago
    Not at all. Peak shaving with approaches like this is fairly common with utilities. Lots of them will give huge rebates on smart meters in exchange for this.