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In no time someone will come up with a box that will switch to your neighbor’s power. One will have this and the other one the classic one. You will both use th
by tomas789 6y ago
In no time someone will come up with a box that will switch to your neighbor’s power. One will have this and the other one the classic one. You will both use the cheaper one at a given time. That will give you the access to the highly volatile power prices with a cap in more expensive ones. People usually have to pay O(N) money for things like this on the exchanges. You’ll have it for O(1) money. Or maybe just resell the power to the neighbor with a small discount compared to a regular utility price and pack the difference. The box should pay for itself in no time.
- OJFord 6y agoInstallation is regulated and, from what I understand, these boxes' tamper resistance is more sophisticated than guerrilla IEDs. (That is to say, not necessarily 'sophisticated', but a non-trivial amount of 'you're doing something wrong if you're trying to defeat me' counter-measures.)
- dane-pgp 6y agoWhat if the two neighbours share an electric vehicle or two, and swap which garage they are in based on where it is cheapest to charge? The car that isn't charging can then supply electricity to the other house.
- OJFord 6y ago'Supply electricity to the other house' is the bit that you can't do. I mean, by all means power everything from your car and stop using the mains supply to your house - but that sounds pretty inconvenient to me - you can't interfere with the supply as a DIYer, and I doubt there's any way to do it in a regulator-approved way short of completely disconnecting from the grid, not off and on based on price.