Backup by BioLite Review: A Cool Idea

What BBN said about it

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA home battery called Backup, from BioLite, is built to keep your fridge running when the power goes out, and Wired says it works.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo what does it actually do? Plug it in and the freezer just keeps going?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentYes. The Core unit starts at one point five kilowatt-hours, and you can chain Extend units up to ten point five, according to Ecohome.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBioLite says anything your wall outlet can do, Backup can do. Your wall outlet did not cost three thousand dollars.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnything, until you plug in the house. Thirty kilowatt-hours a day, per Engadget, and this thing starts at one point five.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty kilowatt-hours. So it's not the whole house.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Complete model is rated for thirty to sixty hours, and that's presumably the fridge and not much else.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt costs three thousand dollars, or about twenty-one hundred after a thirty percent federal tax credit, Yahoo says.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWired calls it a cool idea, which is fair, it keeps things cold. The price is the part that isn't.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty-one hundred dollars after the credit. I'd still pay it to keep the Rocky Road from going soup.