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Well, heat your water with it. In addition, I don't see why you wouldn't just buy a home battery pack and use that to store up energy. You can run the ice in t
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Well, heat your water with it.
In addition, I don't see why you wouldn't just buy a home battery pack and use that to store up energy. You can run the ice in the high power bursts to top off.
I just kind of like this post because there's going to be a lot of excess ICE engines out there once EVs take over the primary job of consumer transport.
Would be nice to have a DIY recipe to convert them over to leveling for your solar grid at home
- numpad0 3y agoIIUC the significant fractions of heat can't be absorbed, else it eats into efficiency, which is okay if part of the purpose of the engine is for heat - I think he's just pointing out the hydrocarbon-to-kinetic conversion ratio is around 1/3rd, which is a useful rule of thumb.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoThat seems a little bit nuts considering what they're doing with passive heat exchangers right now. Waste heat from an ICE must be way more useful than a simple 10 or 20° gradient that they're trying to use for house heating and cooling