I don't know what Olympia's temperatures are like this time of year, but
my solution would be to move my freezer outside to the shady side of the
house and open the lid at night and close it in the daytime (or move the
contents of the freezer compartment of your fridgeto an ice-chest and do
the same).
At least in terms of energy efficiency, when your (indoor) freezer runs,
the waste heat it generates offsets the heating energy demand of the
rest of your system... it is no worse than a resistance heater.
I think moving into a condo would be hypocritical as well by some
measure... there are places in Asia where people live in stacks of
10x10x10 storage units and depend on their compactness and body heat
(and charcoal/propane mini-cooking stoves) to keep them warm. Water
carried in, waste carried out in buckets. Hexagonal cells might be more
hivelike, but this is damn close in scale and packing. It is amazing
the diversity of how they make those (tight by some standards) quarters
liveable. And then one step tighter are the Japanese microhotels.
On 2/8/22 1:28 PM, glen wrote:
Yeah. And I'm a hypocrite, living in a single-family home, albeit
within the city limits. I keep telling Renee' we have to kill the cats
and buy a condo. She thinks I'm cruel. I had to pull out the generator
once this winter ... and that just to keep our freezer from thawing. A
decent battery system would have prevented that ... though I haven't
looked into what kind of battery system works for the variation in the
draw.
On 2/8/22 12:17, Marcus Daniels wrote:
The Berkeley area is a case in point. There are some people that
don't want to see growth of the city and increased population. They
say to move out east. But as one gets away from the mild
microclimate near the water, it gets hot and fire risk goes up. The
cost of property is astronomical and there is an incentive for people
that already have property to keep it expensive. There is ongoing
residential building going on along BART that extends out in all
directions.
Anyway, it seems reasonable to me to use existing infrastructure in
ways to make things safer. Even though I'm not in a high-risk fire
zone, homes in my immediate area do get their power turned off when
there is wind. That seems completely ridiculous. Taking
survivalist measures like buying $20k worth of batteries when one
ostensibly lives in a major metropolitan area seems to be evidence
that things are very broken.
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It still sounds like rent-seeking to me. The answer is: Move to the
city. Centralize. Hivitize. We need to stop enabling those who think
a McMansion [⛧] in the forest/desert or the suburbs is, in any way, a
Good Thing. Suburban and rural populations are sucking way more than
they're contributing, living off the excess produced by the
centralized hubs.
It *seems* reasonable to assert that we should work on the "last
mile" problem, applying individualist solutions like personal
vehicles and private power lines (of whatever composition) directly
to one's rural homestead. But the last mile problem is only a problem
because of our delusional identity as individuals and our delusional
conception of private property. Correct those causes and that symptom
will be mitigated.
Sure, there will still be issues like transporting individuals from
the hive into the fields to do work (e.g. launching small groups into
space). But those would be the edge cases, not the center. If the
power law distributed majority of us lived in appropriately dense
hives, compressed air storage makes a lot more sense (as does
broadband communication, cultural transmission, and a host of other
processes perverted by our identities as individuals).
[⛧] Sorry, Steve. I know your homestead, littered with cool
micro-inventions and geeky tech, doesn't *seem* like a McMansion. But
it essentially is ... just tailored to a - our - subculture's tastes.
>8^D Even for those who go fully "off grid", when the sh¡t hits the
fan, those humans, massively capable harvesters of natural resources
that we are, will go back "on grid" to, say, get cancer treatment or
buy some canned beans or whatnot. But we can tolerate the few truly
innovative survivalists, and *not* pipe energy to their stead. It's
the blatant exploiters, rent-seekers, whose living out there is fully
supported by their ability to suck resources from the hive ... and
our abetting that parasitic relationship.
On 2/8/22 09:00, Steve Smith wrote:
As an amateur complexicist, I am a fan of multi-scale systems....
so I look forward to systems like yours not being scaled (only) to
mega-industry. I wonder at how far out the existing distribution
chain you can push compressed air practically? I doubt there are
(m)any mechanics or private homes, for example, who could give up
their NG feed (heat mostly) for compressed air, even if the upstream
distribution were converting. The new(ish) DC-powered residential
scale mini-split heat-pumps would seem to operate well off of any
mechanical energy source (not just PWM modulated variable speed DC
motors) and the decompressed chilled air from the air-motor would go
right into boosting the efficiency rather than being yet another
source of waste heat. Not a perpetual motion machine, just a system
where some of the intrinsic inefficiencies are exploited/recovered
elegantly?
The big win seems obviously to be the major NG pipelines and
existing electric generation stations. I can't tell from your
literature if converting existing NG turbines to compressed air is
even reasonable... seems like this is probably why CAES is burning
NG to bring the charge up to the performance scale of existing
turbine designs? I believe that many of these plants were
designed/modified to be "peaking" plants which it seems your tech is
ideal for... let the
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