Air conditioning seems another obvious target for this technology, since most aircons cool for a while (using lots of power) and then just ran the fan (using little power) until the room heats up a bit, then they cool again. If you have 500,000 aircons all doing this, there's a good chance the power station is going to see big surges in energy draw. If they're all talking to each other, they could negotiate their cycles to place a more consistent draw on the power source, flattening out the peak.
I reckon with 500,000 aircons, the law of averages would do just as good a job.
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Air conditioning seems another obvious target for this technology, since most aircons cool for a while (using lots of power) and then just ran the fan (using little power) until the room heats up a bit, then they cool again. If you have 500,000 aircons all doing this, there's a good chance the power station is going to see big surges in energy draw. If they're all talking to each other, they could negotiate their cycles to place a more consistent draw on the power source, flattening out the peak.
I reckon with 500,000 aircons, the law of averages would do just as good a job.
He saved $1500 because of the paint job, and he'll sell it for a lower price for the same reason. So he may not have saved any money at all.
Other people's opinions DO count when buying your car - those are the people you'll be trying to sell it to when you're finished with it.