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Anker goes big with new whole home backup system

30 pointsby fleahunteryesterday at 6:02 PM16 commentsview on HN

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bicepjaiyesterday at 9:05 PM

Random thought: Why don’t we have a server rack that runs at home but is managed by a company, then people or businesses rent them? Th important use case is that the heat generated can be used for home. Like property managers, business maintaining them are heat managers for home.

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adrianNyesterday at 6:32 PM

This reads like an ad, but the following passage stood out

> the average US home consumes about 889kWh per month, or about 29.2kWh per day

I assume most of that is HVAC? I use about 1500kWh a year, but I don’t need aircon and heating is district heating.

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yjftsjthsd-hyesterday at 7:44 PM

I thought they already did home batteries, and after looking at their other stuff I'm a bit confused; how it this different from eg. https://www.ankersolix.com/products/f3800?variant=4970232981... ?

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ch1234yesterday at 8:30 PM

Am I the only one skeptical of having Chinese tech at the gateway of my home infra?

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