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Colleagues of mine are working on a system using these kinds of water heaters. Specifically, they are working for a standardized protocol to allow these devices to negotiate prices / indicate to the grid how much they could take.

From what I heard they said something like a half-time for the heat in these devices of about 1 to 2 days.



Could do the same with freezers. And maybe a few degrees with fridges.

And boost those with phase-change materials at the right thaw points.




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