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I'm with you on what you're saying. But that's different because this is a hands off system that doesn't really change anything to humans' experience, unlike one where you're asking someone to not cook after sunset or some such.

In the case of your freezer example, the freezer is a form of energy storage. Similarly a battery, or a phase change heat battery, are other forms of energy storage. Energy storage is important for the obvious reasons of being able to decouple time of production from time of consumption.

Modern humans built all of civilization on their ability to decouple time of production from consumption.