Yes of course - but I suspect you are still solving the technical problems within what you do? The beauty is the elegance of the solution,the optimisation,the way it works. All of these things are problems worth…
It is sad to see so many smart, inquisitive and dedicated people who come to this site feel this way. I suspect a lot of it may be because of how dedicated and passionate people are about their work and their skill and…
I think that we should reframe how we look at skills and jobs. The legacy market rewards specialists and AI evens out some specialist areas. I am a big believer that we will re-balance the value towards ability to think…
I would like for you to offer a rebuttal other than it being fud and exotic. I would argue that Vermont is an exotic example of where batteries offer disproportionate value. A city with a single privately owned monopoly…
For me it's about messaging and positioning. These stories always simplify the narrative and it comes down to solar wind and battery = good and cheap, traditional energy = dirty expensive and bad. DER is great and can…
I think what he was saying is that with a peaker plant you have an extra source of power. So if you have a low wind/low irradiance period - you can rely on peaker to provide more power, but by this stage batteries are…
That could be true, but I think important to clarify - how big is the solar array and how big is the battery? - what does the consumption look like - is your battery big enough to help navigate through a week of cloud…
Entirely agree. I think that this is fantastic technology and it will do wonders to avoid blackouts and deal with storm outages that people talked about. I just think that we need to have more care when it comes to…
That's an interesting question. I would think that it depends on what generation the batteries are replacing. As far as I know VPPs are relying on domestic inverters that do not have grid forming functionality required…
I think you are spot on. The grid death spiral. Unless you can have enough generation co-locatrd with consumption you need the grid and the utility scale plants. In the densely populated areas you simply cannot have…
That is exactly right! Put the batteries where the cost of strain is the highest. My belief is that this is ideologically/politically motivated. If you put the batteries next to network equipment it will not have the…
I hope that the system designers know what they are doing in Vermont. The way an article is written doesn't explore the fact that at its core batteries are a 'consumer of energy' and not a producer like a power plant.…
With your narrow definition of the problem and reduction of communication down to pure utilitarian exchange of information between 2 parties that are willing to put in the effort to get the required context from the…
I think that a more reasonable approach should be to tax capital on capital movements (E.g. using any of your wealth to borrow money or using your property as collateral) - capturing the events of when you are…
Take your point, I'm probably out of technical depth to throw these terms around on HN lightly. What I was trying to say is that sometimes you need to provide additional context and information to those not using the…
Yes, much better analogy - I was trying to stick with the OPs example as much as possible.
I was simplifying, but why can it not be both? Continuing with your metaphor - sure get more security - you likely can never eliminate a threat. But if the bad actors are reigned in at a systemic level, you can get away…
Every nation on earth has access to the compute power of a SOTA AI lab? And they have whatever model/harness that Open AI used to do this?
I don't disagree with you - but I am curious as to the amount of power and effort that goes into something like this. I suspect that these hacks into systems are carried out by many agents, running on many MW of compute…
If you knew that there are 2 specific well known people in your neighborhood that are walking around trying to open doors and steal stuff - is your suggested solution for everyone to improve own security? I would say…
I think you need to take information compression into account. Compression naturally created by shared understanding of concepts and acronyms. Can you explain to a child what it means when "GitHub is down" with less…
Things are considered important in the context of humanity. Environmental concerns only exist because of its impacts on humanity. The planet does not care. Calling having children an ecological offence is like saying…
Worth is subjective. You are worth something to someone regardless of your job. If you have a small child are their whole world. Same with your parents. Trying to garner sympathy and have strangers assign worth to you…
Doesn't have to be binary. Train is more efficient at moving large volume of people reliably compared to a bus or a taxi. I would wager that there are many more people travelling with carry-on only or a single bag for…
Nobody is hiding the debt. It is just an investment that people are not used to for this type of business. It's sort of like saying "aluminium smelter is hiding massive off balance sheet debt by agreeing a long term…
Yes of course - but I suspect you are still solving the technical problems within what you do? The beauty is the elegance of the solution,the optimisation,the way it works. All of these things are problems worth…
It is sad to see so many smart, inquisitive and dedicated people who come to this site feel this way. I suspect a lot of it may be because of how dedicated and passionate people are about their work and their skill and…
I think that we should reframe how we look at skills and jobs. The legacy market rewards specialists and AI evens out some specialist areas. I am a big believer that we will re-balance the value towards ability to think…
I would like for you to offer a rebuttal other than it being fud and exotic. I would argue that Vermont is an exotic example of where batteries offer disproportionate value. A city with a single privately owned monopoly…
For me it's about messaging and positioning. These stories always simplify the narrative and it comes down to solar wind and battery = good and cheap, traditional energy = dirty expensive and bad. DER is great and can…
I think what he was saying is that with a peaker plant you have an extra source of power. So if you have a low wind/low irradiance period - you can rely on peaker to provide more power, but by this stage batteries are…
That could be true, but I think important to clarify - how big is the solar array and how big is the battery? - what does the consumption look like - is your battery big enough to help navigate through a week of cloud…
Entirely agree. I think that this is fantastic technology and it will do wonders to avoid blackouts and deal with storm outages that people talked about. I just think that we need to have more care when it comes to…
That's an interesting question. I would think that it depends on what generation the batteries are replacing. As far as I know VPPs are relying on domestic inverters that do not have grid forming functionality required…
I think you are spot on. The grid death spiral. Unless you can have enough generation co-locatrd with consumption you need the grid and the utility scale plants. In the densely populated areas you simply cannot have…
That is exactly right! Put the batteries where the cost of strain is the highest. My belief is that this is ideologically/politically motivated. If you put the batteries next to network equipment it will not have the…
I hope that the system designers know what they are doing in Vermont. The way an article is written doesn't explore the fact that at its core batteries are a 'consumer of energy' and not a producer like a power plant.…
With your narrow definition of the problem and reduction of communication down to pure utilitarian exchange of information between 2 parties that are willing to put in the effort to get the required context from the…
I think that a more reasonable approach should be to tax capital on capital movements (E.g. using any of your wealth to borrow money or using your property as collateral) - capturing the events of when you are…
Take your point, I'm probably out of technical depth to throw these terms around on HN lightly. What I was trying to say is that sometimes you need to provide additional context and information to those not using the…
Yes, much better analogy - I was trying to stick with the OPs example as much as possible.
I was simplifying, but why can it not be both? Continuing with your metaphor - sure get more security - you likely can never eliminate a threat. But if the bad actors are reigned in at a systemic level, you can get away…
Every nation on earth has access to the compute power of a SOTA AI lab? And they have whatever model/harness that Open AI used to do this?
I don't disagree with you - but I am curious as to the amount of power and effort that goes into something like this. I suspect that these hacks into systems are carried out by many agents, running on many MW of compute…
If you knew that there are 2 specific well known people in your neighborhood that are walking around trying to open doors and steal stuff - is your suggested solution for everyone to improve own security? I would say…
I think you need to take information compression into account. Compression naturally created by shared understanding of concepts and acronyms. Can you explain to a child what it means when "GitHub is down" with less…
Things are considered important in the context of humanity. Environmental concerns only exist because of its impacts on humanity. The planet does not care. Calling having children an ecological offence is like saying…
Worth is subjective. You are worth something to someone regardless of your job. If you have a small child are their whole world. Same with your parents. Trying to garner sympathy and have strangers assign worth to you…
Doesn't have to be binary. Train is more efficient at moving large volume of people reliably compared to a bus or a taxi. I would wager that there are many more people travelling with carry-on only or a single bag for…
Nobody is hiding the debt. It is just an investment that people are not used to for this type of business. It's sort of like saying "aluminium smelter is hiding massive off balance sheet debt by agreeing a long term…