Then why not just hang them up for drying? Zero power consumption and they will dry in eight hours, maybe not under all conditions but under many.
I'd even go a step ahead: dryers ruin clothes.
A bit diff in a humid area, or where the A/C would need to condense the added humidity (if dried indoors), or the furnace would have to counter-act the cooling from evaporation, but HVAC is usually more efficient than the dryer.
Water does not have the capability to store much energy.
>If electricity is really cheap, my freezer can jump into overdrive.
Your freezer can't if it's not a ammonia refrigerant. You will actually be wasting energy.
>I don't care if my fridge/freezer takes a break
Your fridge actually does not use electricity constantly. It detects the temperature and run the motor, stops it when it reaches the desired temp. It's already having a break.
OK on the freezer. Could still take the fridge down to 2C.
The concept of the fridge taking a break while running other loads is to reduce peak draw current. If everyone did that, it would make the grid more stable.
Scheduling exchanges, where your local grid sub-station can get your bids for usage and put it into a grid wide exchange, scheduling your car to charge itself at 3:34 am using 24Wh or whatever.
We become ever more interconnected - this is the real rental economy - renting not a lawn mower for an hour but renting power. You think privacy is bad on your phone - wait till your washing machine sends "soiled underpants on at 3pm - any bids" to half the planets solar providers
- Washing machines (Replace the concrete with water balloon, choose latest time to complete)
- Lights (mostly I think these will be LEDs drawing off a panel on our roof. We don't need that much light.
- too tired to do this but a study on this must exist somewhere?
Improved efficiency is one of the things that allows us to have continued economic production despite reducing usage.
Let’s talk real. Compared to fluorescent lamp, LED comsumes half of energy. It’s not like they comsume nothing. Over 68% of sockets in American households already use LED in 2018 and 13% of energy was used in residential lighting in 2018. If 32% changes to LED it will lower the percentage to 11% which is still more than what we use to refrigerate.
In 2017, 1% of households had all sockets using LED and 71% had not a single socket using LED. 11% still had all sockets using incandescent. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31112
Systems that make ice at night and use it for A/C during the day date back to the 1950s.
The general class of these facilities is phase-change materials. Water is pretty amazing, both for ice and for steam.
Most of my loads, on average, don't need to run that exact second.
I don't mind if my hot water tank super-heats water in the middle of the day for the rest of the day. If electricity is really cheap, my freezer can jump into overdrive.
I don't need my clothes to dry in the next hour, just over the next 8.
I don't care if my fridge/freezer takes a break while I run the microwave or pre-heat the oven.
I don't care if my car charges ASAP as soon as I park, as long as it's charged by 8AM. And let it run as a grid-power bank for a fee.
Then you could have A/C systems that make ice or compress refrigerant in a tank.