This was my exact solution in the late 1990's that I formulated using a uid algorithm I created when confronted with a growing payment processing load issue that centralized hardware at the time could not handle. MsSQL could not process the ever increasing load yet the firehose of real-time payments transaction volume could not be turned off so an interim parallel solution involving microservices to walk everything over to Oracle was devised using this technique. Everything old is new again as the patterns and cycles ebb and flow.
The only thing one needs to understand for the future direction of power is contained within a single sentence in this document that many will glance over. Future generation plants will be built different as version one of the grid has proven to not work but this version one is so critical no one has yet attempted version two. The new design will be generate>store>consume albeit at a loss of some power in conversion but persistent availability will quickly overcome those losses as acceptable. This has already begun in some consumer markets as those fortunate enough to have solar with batteries comprehend my words exactly. Everything will have a battery to store energy, even things producing it.
A standing applause for those undertaking this effort as I look forward to losing even more of my future time given how much I lost to it in the past.
Many moons ago I worked with an individual whose wife was employed in marketing by a large well known video game company involved around UT. One day he came into the office and brought a load of leftover UT swag and it was a feeding frenzy. I still have and wear my long sleeve black UT embroidered tee and as a point of fact I just wore it again last week. Looking forward to the progress on this effort as an old head UT fan still.
I have located no accredited scientific studies yet that discuss how the loss of gigatons of ice compressing the entire planets structure from the poles will impact the planet as a whole. With even a basic understanding of mass and physics however one can deduce from that comprehension an irrefutable change will occur in the planets crust. If one were to research the pattern of volcanic activity from the start of human recorded existence alone then one may learn something new. Most of our species fails to think in time, only worried about today, however as the changes in our only planet set in from 'progress' more will be forced to look back over time and reconsider where we failed.
Search for “post-glacial rebound” or “glacial isostatic adjustment”.
This has been thoroughly studied and is well known to geologists, especially in Northern Europe where changes can occur over human time scales.
I remember watching a documentary about a landslide disaster that occurred because clay saturated by salt water had lifted above sea level due to GIA and the fresh rainwater had washed the salt out. Clay without salt ions is more liquid and eventually moved catastrophically.
Greatly appreciative of the intellectual verbiage guidance that will certainly lead me down a deeper rabbit hole for my interests. This HN site has been one of my greatest finds on all of the web and the knowledge I have learned and put to work from those here choosing to share such insight has forever changed me. Thanks again.
.. and pretty much why I worded the first line of my comment above as I did.
Sea level changes, glacial retreats, etc will all change crustal pressures and impact the frequency, placement, and nauture of volcanic activity in times to come.
Not a lot of that in Ethiopa for now though (to the best of my current "haven't specifically looked at the map for this" gut feeling).
Some U.S. States have moved on this, such as Ohio, yet it does not get the coverage and press it deserves. Consider how much the debt driven capitalism machine would change if we force educated our up and coming young adults to understand how finances function. Very few think in time in our perceived as instant world and the social cost of this has only just begun.
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I have personally founded, architected, and coded in entirety several acquired payment processing companies in the last 30 years of which were near 100% uptime as well as PCI Level 1 compliant among several other audit stipulations. Your mention of energy trading *immediately* caught my eye as I am now building an energy storage company that is founded in design on top of my decades evolved secure highly available API transaction engine that I am refactoring to support VPP to manage the energy storage array I am patenting.
My ying appears to align with your yang from my understanding of your words so if this is something of interest please feel free to engage from my outreach.
An anecdotal personal story as it aligns with this exact statement although no one got killed but data breaches certainly occurred.
Many years ago now I was propositioned to be on the board of a financial technology company and they spared no expense in literally rolling out the red carpet for my arrival. I found it all very laughable being solely focused on business and the technical details as I was not being fooled by all the schmoozing. After hearing all the unrealistic business objectives and the promise of having the Philadelphia Flyers involved I then asked to meet the technology team that built the product to see a demo. They bring in one young guy who built it all, the executives are still present mind you, and they allow me to ask any and all questions about the platform that nearly no one in management comprehended. After seeing the demo which involved several blatant security issues I asked only one more question of the sole developer: "Would you put your financial information into this system?"
He provided his answer in front of the companies executive board and I can still see their reactions to this very day. I then stood up and thanked everyone for opportunity and left.
Ah, the term "Middlemen" of which I have personally been one in fintech as the core architectural founder several times.
Given that much of technology originates and is perfected by the adult content industry, for those unaware, payments is no exception to this rule just as live video and audio software development was directly impacted from this adult content demand. It is claimed that sex sells and I can attest 100% to this claim being correct as a movie was even made about the payment system I was foundational in building and that movie was ironically called "Middlemen". I was younger then and the personal stories from those days I carry could have a great mini series created.
Received an email from our East Coast USA centralized power provider about 2 hours ago now in a very obnoxiously large BOLDED email font stating "Your electricity use is projected to be 35% higher this billing period".
My 'who you know' management people at this power provider have expressed a severe growing backlog of unpaid bills in our talks and as a result they have had to change their policy around cutoffs. More alarming is their need to bring law enforcement with them to residences now for power cutoffs that have reached an unpaid threshold above some normal classification, and yes violence against the power company employees only doing their job is growing given the culmination of economic events creating this situation. Consider your own reaction if you haven't paid your electrical bills for many months and you see the power company pull up to your residence to pull your meter thus leaving you in the dark and cold. Violence against power companies employees is growing although it has not yet reached news worthy status but just give it time.
My opening statement represents the power company's changes to communicate your consumption and how it will impact your personal finances at month's end in order to get in front of all those in society that are reactive, which is most folks. As a highly proactive futurist four years ago now I installed BIPV and batteries taking advantage of the U.S. and Maryland governments monetary kickbacks so while some here see me as the problem my 35% increase this month is minuscule given having nearly no electric bill through PV and significant efficiency improvements to my residence.
Time is one's most valuable asset and many waste their time to then only complain about their situation. I would encourage everyone to get in front of your dependencies and work daily to reduce or eliminate them and this approach will return more of one's time, something that cannot be bought.
Yes, timing and location is everything and some impacts can never be changed. In this case the planet's tilt cannot be changed which is reducing our daily PV output in aligned conjunction with increased mileage traveled via electric mobility.
This alert is also a false positive because while they are reporting our increased draw within a set interval they are not front loading the alert logic check against our existing overage credit balance from back feeding our surplus. This then asks the question should the alert logic only occur on increased usage that I pay for or should they also take into consideration my credit before alerting me? My increased usage costs nothing when I have an overage credit as my power company PV agreement is 1 to 1.
I wanted to take this opportunity to share this recent law that passed within the State of Maryland USA that will likely irritate many a technology business owner in this ever evolving world of more and more tech. IANAL so gauge your own impacts if you do work within the State of Maryland offering technology services. My opinions are my own but those here within that have vast technological experience, years beyond the comprehension of those making these laws, I await to read your feedback. Page 10, 11, and 12 have the definition of services now taxed.
Good, bad, or indifferent it is now a law and in reading this several times as an impacted business owner I can certainly read in between the lines where the "grey areas" reside as subjective interpretation. Lawyers are likely going to be busy with this one as well.
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