Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:20:30 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-13 19:27, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:46:19 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

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The storage of energy (in this case below ambient) in a tank of water is
a lot less environmentally damaging than batteries of any kind and
water-cooled air conditioning is more efficient than air-cooled.

 
Water is great stuff. It's cheap and has a huge specific heat.

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Huh. It is not cheap everywhere. It is scarce, thus expensive, precisely
in hot places.

You only have to fill a heat dump tank once and there's no evaportion.
A fraction of what a swimming pool or a lawn needs.

Some people use thousands of gallons per day on their lawns, and then
have to cut and poison and fertilize them. I hate lawns.