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Can anyone speak to what that could power? Could I run a load of laundry with it? How about dry it afterwards? Here in Italy people mostly take advantage of "solar power" by hanging clothes to dry, but just to get an idea of what the battery could run.




To put it in perspective: in Florida, in the summer, using a 4ton very old/inefficient AC in a 2000sqft house in 100 degree summer weather, electric oven, refrigerator, washer/dryer and all other household stuff. I would burn about 3kw / hr in the middle of the day. So in theory the 10kwh would power a extreme case like this for ~3hours, and 9 of them could do it for ~27hrs. So yes you could do everything you would normally do with household electricity with this.


Moving to geothermal heat pump for the AC would drastically drop your peak power consumption.

As a fellow (part-time) Florida resident, I'd encourage you to send a comment in to the Florida Public Service Commission:

"The Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) staff is gathering information regarding enhancing development of solar technologies in Florida. To this end, we encourage individuals, businesses, and utilities to provide input on demand-side and supply-side policies and programs, and any other information that would be useful to the FPSC. Comments should be limited to 20 pages, excluding attachments.

The comments are due to Lee Eng Tan via e-mail at LTan@psc.state.fl.us on June 23, 2015 by 5:00 pm. Please note that comments provided to the FPSC will be public record and will be posted to the FPSC’s website."

http://www.floridapsc.com/utilities/electricgas/solarenergy/...


Interesting numbers if you contrast them to another comment on this article saying his A/C was 12kWH.


I'm not aware of any consumer level ACs that draw that kind of juice. Given 10¢/kwhr (for easy math) that would still cost $1.20/hr or ~$8xx in electricity per month just for the AC.


that would be an interesting comparison.

could you (eventually) save time and money by using an electric dryer + solar power + battery as opposed to hanging out clothes?


Not as long as you're connected to the grid, and the energy you're wasting could have otherwise been sold.




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