On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 8:44 AM k <[1]gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

     I'm thinking here, a 5 gallon bucket would make you 22 KWh of

   I think I was looking at the wrong number and this is more like 1.75
   KWh / 5gal bucket.  unsure.

     electricity for a freezing cycle filling a 1.6458 L piston generator
     with ice: bbut then in the spring it melts again!  The generator
     runs
     both ways!  You get a total of 44 KWh of electricity!
     So to power the home, you'd only need a 10-50 thousand liter tank,
     not
     a 100k liter tank.
     Now, the reason I thought of this, is because as winter has happened
     this year for me, things have actually frozen and melted many times
     already.  It might be a freezing and melting cycle in one single
     day.

References

   1. mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com