▲ 86 ▼ [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours (www.youtube.com) submitted 1 week ago by p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@beehaw.org 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child) If you watch the video, you'll understand that the temperature transfer process to a hot water tank is incredibly slow. So, water tanks are not a very good battery. I mean, unless you want to spend 12 hours trying to dry your clothes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 point 6 days ago* But that's not a technical limit, it's a cost saving engineering limit Also you can pull heat out much faster when needed. If there's heat left when you're done you can feed it back with a heat exchanger permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 point 6 days ago* But that's not a technical limit, it's a cost saving engineering limit Also you can pull heat out much faster when needed. If there's heat left when you're done you can feed it back with a heat exchanger permalink fedilink source parent