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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by walrus01 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:57PM (#18971807)
Air conditioning, at least, is a natural to pair with large grid connected photovoltaic setups. The times of the day when you'll have the heaviest AC compressor motor/fan motor load in watts is also when the sun is up.

Look an hourly demand curve chart for a central air conditioned house in Sacramento in mid summer, vs watt-hours produced during the same hours of the same day by a rooftop 10kW size pv system.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by rb808 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:59PM (#18971831)
Sounds like you dont live in Florida. :)
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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by athenot on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:04PM (#18971880)
Meaning that even when the Sun is no longer shining, the dewpoint is so high that what might have been a comfortable temperature with a breeze is actually felt as oppressively hot and will cause all sorts of fun mold growing in the home.

In the Southeast, AC is also about dehumidifying the air.

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Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks by Iwan-Zotow on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:51PM (#18972331)
> The times of the day when you'll have the heaviest AC compressor motor/fan motor load in watts is also when the sun is up.

Not quite true, actually. Shifted by few hours.

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