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I interpreted the parent post as talking about chilled water thermal energy storage as opposed to evaporative cooling.



Yes. its not evaporative cooling: you have a watermass you chill down with offpeak power, and then use as the coolth source to chill dry air in the aircon, rather than using a normal fridge chiller circuit. Its power-shifting. The total powercost is probably comparable to on-demand chilling but you shift the power budget to off-peak, or other sources.




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