WaylonKenning

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   by WaylonKenning 10y ago

   Everyone seems a bit obsessed by batteries as a storage method, when we have more traditional methods: - Pumped-storage hydroelectricity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... . Sure it's
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   by WaylonKenning 10y ago

   The company left a liability floating around, which was a disgruntled co founder. Like a liability on your balance sheet. And if you're the disgruntled co founder, this is your most opportune moment to extract maximum equity value for
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   I've worked in utilities before, and sometimes it's not possible to airgap those systems. After all, someone needs to login and update and performance maintenance on those SCADA systems. And it's pretty expensive to fly those
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   There is a clear cut way - the wholesale rate. In New Zealand, an auction happens every 30 minutes where demand is tallied by the system operator (Transpower) at a Grid Extraction Point, and generators bid in what they think it's worth
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   I enjoy a good internet discussion! So the topic of debate is whether its fair to charge a retail price for solar buybacks, or a wholesale price. I argued that a retail price is unfair, because energy utilities have a bunch of retail costs,
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   Sources please! There's more to retail than just billing. Off the top of my head there's advertising, acquisition of customers, creation of plans/pricing/campaigns, getting consumption information (which in New Zealand i
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   This whole article is weird to me as a New Zealander, since most of the problems comes from weirdly, not letting the market set the buy-back rate of electricity. I worked for one of New Zealand's largest electricity generators and reta
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   Hey, as someone who used to work for an energy utility looking at setting up a solar market place, there's some info you're missing: - The wholesale price is the cost of generating electricity. The retail price includes the cost o
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   by WaylonKenning 11y ago

   I don't agree with your statement about the New Zealand healthcare system. For instance, in regards to dialysis: For patients using a haemodialysis machine at home, the health service provides the dialysis machine and all the medical s
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    by WaylonKenning 11y ago

    As a New Zealander, any form of corruption is unacceptable. It's just not in the DNA of being a good New Zealander to be corrupt. Therefore, there's great social pressure to not be corrupt. Being corrupt is not celebrated, and I w
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    by WaylonKenning 11y ago

    I remember someone created a P2P file sharing system that used 'munges' of files to create blocks of data by themselves that have no meaning (a bit like http://monolith.sourceforge.net/ ). These blocks were then tr
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    by WaylonKenning 14y ago

    I can always tell I'm in a room full of programmers when they say "coding" is the most important part of making software. Oh really? That's a bit like saying the person laying asphalt on the road is the most important part of making the roa