RE: The Graphene battery, that will displace the LiIon battery, is now moving to production!
It will run her AC unit, so she is in favor! I have found some ultra high efficiency minisplit systems, that use 900 watts to both heat, and cool. I will need two (each does 700 square feet). I already have the 24 volt inverters to run them both on 220 vac. During the day, when it is the hottest, they can run directly from the solar panels.
The power company is becoming less and less reliable, since adding the "smart meters"; and lead acid batteries have a very limited life span. A piece of water pipe cut to the right length, will give me a 60 watt, 24 volt battery. I will parallel over 300 of these batteries to store power for my housse. They will be dropped into fluid in a 5 gallon bucket, through holes in the lid; and buried in the crawl space, for heat disapation, and auto-ignition safety.
Since writing this, my power was down, on a clear day without wind, for over an hour. We are rapidly approaching third world status on our power grid! :(
@smithlabs this is amazing, how'd you learn all this?
Well, I get a trade magazine on Batteries every month. I have studies heating and cooling for over three decades; and I helped build one of the first geo-thermal heat pumps in 1979.
Not new thought processes for me, LOL!
of course. who doesn't subscribe to a battery magazine! lol
I didn't know there was such a thing. the first geo-thermal heat pump yawhser!
hey can those be put anywhere? you can heat off grid with them?
hey how long before these fantastic new batteries get on the market?
Trade magazines come for free to engineers; in the hopes that I will design in soem of their advertised products. I get a bunch of them (light reading, LOL).
I don't know if we were the first, but the feds did come to look at it! We got an efficienccy reting of 7.5, when the best on the market were running bairly 3. Thatprogram got a LOT of donations, shortly after that! The unit I am looking at for the new land, is running an efficiency rating of 22, so a lot has changed.
:)Yes they can heat and cool a house off grid. I did a post yesterday on that. Look at the post on the Earth Battery.
The link is an Amazon for sale link. They are WAY too expensive right now, but will come down a LOT, once they work out the business model.