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I live in Florida, and I'm building a water battery, so I can freeze it at night when electricity rates are cheap, and use it to cool the house during the day.

The day after the system goes live, they'll probably announce flat rates for any time of day, just to f' with me. :(

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> The day after the system goes live, they'll probably announce flat rates for any time of day, just to f' with me. :(

Every system like yours works to flatten the prices, but it looks like a pretty big swing between peak and off peak pricing today, so it'll probably be a while before flat pricing again.

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You wouldn't happen to be sharing this builds information publicly would you? I can fully respect however if you are not.

I am a staunch DIY serial entrepreneur techie that has used my grey goo to build and sell a few companies and my time now is spent similar to yours although using a different application of physics. I too am motivated, just as you are, in my efforts to apply what I know to further reduce my energy costs which will not stop rising for quite some time.

You really made my day with this post and I hope we can find more folks like ourselves from your share because in time 'dogfooding' new ideas at home will lead to new applicable discoveries for all.

Stay Healthy!

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