* “Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base,” said John Romero, who programmed the game with John Carmack. (In our interview, he then reminisced about operating systems for the next 14 minutes.)
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The major alternative would be using a public mass transit system which just happens to hit the school as part of its routes. Which is culturally and ideologically unacceptable for most of the US.
It is derived from the Census Household Pulse Survey which is designed, administered, and analyzed by the most sophisticated survey designers out there. They've had decades to create and refine approaches that deal with this problem.
I trust their interpretation over "throwaway13337" statements about what they find "obvious."
One thing I haven't seen much coverage on is how to tap into the giant batteries we're driving around in our electric vehicles. These are much bigger than what's currently being deployed in houses.
V2L is one of the reasons I bought the car I did - instead of getting battery backup for the random outages that PG&E gifts us (literally power drops likely to happen whenever we gust over 25mph), I installed a 12 circuit transfer switch and my 75kWh battery in the car can provide reasonable backup without running cables throughout the house (reasonable = 1.9kW max so no hair dryers or running toaster oven + microwave at the same time).
Newer vehicles (like 2025 Ioniq5) can do 12kW throughput (and many trucks can do 9+ kW already).
Once V2H standards are confirmed and deployed I would be able to integrate the Car batteries with home batteries and solar.
A Generlink would have simplied your transfer switch rewiring. Just connect the external 240V supply (be it your vehicle, batteries, or a fossil fuel powered generator), and the Generlink shuts down the grid connection and delivers to your regular main service panel. You might need to turn some circuits off when using it, but which circuits and when remains flexible and context dependent.
Just charging your car when the demand is low is probably enough to drastically reduce the overall cost of the system. And this has basically no impact on the battery lifespan.
A trial in the UK resulted in customers earning up to £725/year [1]. With increased renewables on the grid leading to increased flutucations in the wholesale price of electricity, providing V2G/V2H will further reduce a customer's electricity bill on top of the savings offered by smart charging eg. Charge Anytime Tariff is 7p per kWh for EV charging [2] vs 27p kWh average Apr - Jun 2025 [3].
There are other products already available to do it (DCBel), and it can be hacked of course, but at the current moment everything comes with substantial corner case blind spots, mostly related to grid-forming/following switching and to the resilience of the power electronics.
> Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness.
This seems exactly backwards. At this scale you can establish as much "bespokeness" as you want. The investors want in and will sign pretty much anything.
It reminds me of the old joke from Paul Getty:
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
* “Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base,” said John Romero, who programmed the game with John Carmack. (In our interview, he then reminisced about operating systems for the next 14 minutes.) *