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it is, but that's the part that technology can actually help us with. all the internet-connected smart home stuff that companies have been trying to sell us is
by notatoad 4y ago
it is, but that's the part that technology can actually help us with. all the internet-connected smart home stuff that companies have been trying to sell us is a bit silly when electricity is sold at a flat rate, but if my car charger, my clothes dryer, or my or my dishwasher could sit idle until electricity prices drop into the cheap zone and then turn themselves on, that internet connection becomes useful.
an attitude of "i don't want to deal with the stress of thinking about the electricity i use" is absolutely the sort of luxury that you should pay extra for, the people willing to schedule their power usage to reduce peak demand should be paying less than the people who aren't willing to do that.
- AceyMan 4y agothis just makes me think of the situation that resulted in Global TCP Synchronization flapping problem; when everyone is operating on the same premise without some random delay or other way to 'shard' the load it seems like a Slashdot effect is bound to happen.
- mirchiseth 4y agoSaw the Slashdot effect reference after such a long time. Not sure what % of HNers were there in the heydays of /.
- jeffreygoesto 4y agoMore than you think? =;-{)} Wo remembers the "Anonymous FTP Sites List"?
- fsckboy 4y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/ https://old.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/
- marcosdumay 4y agoYou are comparing a complex, out of band, auction-based organization system with a simple, no added overhead, parameter-guessing system. Those don't fail on the same ways.
- nikau 4y agoYep that could certainly work if appliances and cars have an option to say "have my dishwasher finish or car charged by 9am tomorrow" and it knows how long a cycle takes and picks the best time. For anything real time it wont work - here in Australia we had a discount for a box that you connect to your air conditioner which would throttle back its use during peak, and a lot of people ditched it due to impact on their comfort.