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Alright, i guess I was begging the question to get a further understanding. Good work on your ability to share knowledge of the topic. So what your saying is

Alright, i guess I was begging the question to get a further understanding. Good work on your ability to share knowledge of the topic. So what your saying is you could do it if your fucked with it enough, but it would be most likely impossible to play a quick trick on a friend by switching out his power source - the charing cube. Let me ask another question, Now what about electricity through Googles proposed one gig high speed test networks, hooked up to smart houses, providing your internet and cable needs. How long 10-25 years? Would additional technology need to be created? I am trying to write an MBA paper guessing googles long term strategy, 25 years out. I know they applied to be in the energy market but I'm not sure how they could fully use this ability other than transfer power from their data centers to consumers.

jacquesm 16y ago
> So what your saying is you could do it if your fucked with it enough, but it would be most likely impossible to play a quick trick on a friend by switching out his power source - the charing cube. That's one way of saying it. But you are seriously underestimating the specific value of 'fucked with it enough', without the required knowledge you're looking at a project that will cost you a few months to more than a year. This is not that easy. Electronics, modulation technology, isolation, SMD hacking with regular tools, it's all possible, but it's not that easy. > Let me ask another question, Now what about electricity through Googles proposed one gig high speed test networks, hooked up to smart houses, providing your internet and cable needs. How long 10-25 years? Would additional technology need to be created? 100mbit is available in some countries right now (Korea for instance) http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2006/11/8195.ars http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2006/11/8195.ars , 1G is definitely possible with todays tech but nobody would really know what to do with it. I'm a pretty heavy user on a 20Mbit broadband connection the only thing that I find limiting every now and then is that I 'only' have 5 Mbit up. So additional tech would not need to be made at all, the bigger question is what you would do with it. > I am trying to write an MBA paper guessing googles long term strategy, 25 years out. I know they applied to be in the energy market but I'm not sure how they could fully use this ability other than transfer power from their data centers to consumers. Trying to guess googles long term strategy, 25 years out is like trying to predict the information age from the moment of the invention of the Hollerith card. There really is so much happening in such a short timespan that you have no chance at all to do that. Google started in '98, you're trying to make a stab at what they'll be doing over twice as long from today as they've been in business, I doubt google themselves looks that far ahead, so how could you try to guess what they themselves probably do not know ? Google mostly applied to be in the energy market so they can power their datacenters and use the grid for transportation and to facilitate their solar experiments, I'm not at all aware of Google wanting to be a domestic provider of energy, do you have any pointers ?

jacquesm 16y ago

> So what your saying is you could do it if your fucked with it enough, but it would be most likely impossible to play a quick trick on a friend by switching out his power source - the charing cube. That's one way of saying it. But you are seriously underestimating the specific value of 'fucked with it enough', without the required knowledge you're looking at a project that will cost you a few months to more than a year. This is not that easy. Electronics, modulation technology, isolation, SMD hacking with regular tools, it's all possible, but it's not that easy. > Let me ask another question, Now what about electricity through Googles proposed one gig high speed test networks, hooked up to smart houses, providing your internet and cable needs. How long 10-25 years? Would additional technology need to be created? 100mbit is available in some countries right now (Korea for instance) http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2006/11/8195.ars http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2006/11/8195.ars , 1G is definitely possible with todays tech but nobody would really know what to do with it. I'm a pretty heavy user on a 20Mbit broadband connection the only thing that I find limiting every now and then is that I 'only' have 5 Mbit up. So additional tech would not need to be made at all, the bigger question is what you would do with it. > I am trying to write an MBA paper guessing googles long term strategy, 25 years out. I know they applied to be in the energy market but I'm not sure how they could fully use this ability other than transfer power from their data centers to consumers. Trying to guess googles long term strategy, 25 years out is like trying to predict the information age from the moment of the invention of the Hollerith card. There really is so much happening in such a short timespan that you have no chance at all to do that. Google started in '98, you're trying to make a stab at what they'll be doing over twice as long from today as they've been in business, I doubt google themselves looks that far ahead, so how could you try to guess what they themselves probably do not know ? Google mostly applied to be in the energy market so they can power their datacenters and use the grid for transportation and to facilitate their solar experiments, I'm not at all aware of Google wanting to be a domestic provider of energy, do you have any pointers ?