Also the larger battery means the individual cells can be pulse charged much slower and each cell individually at the rate where it doesn't damage that much. I measure the temperature, voltage and current of each cell so they never overheat. This is how I get many more cycles out of each cell so they last 50 years. It is also safer, with thousands of temperature measurements several times per second not a single sell gets warm, and if they ever do it is because it is damaged and we can immediately disconnect it and tell the driver where to locate it and remove it.

For a truck these thousands of battery cells discharging slowly in parallel becomes the reason all trucking companies will be forced to switch from diesel to electric, it is several times cheaper per mile or km. Lower energy cost, lower maintainace, lower downtime, longer life. The only thing you would want is that the maximum weight limit per truck goes up so you can ship more per trip. Right now you ship little kilo's if you carry a heavy battery. But charging with your own solar at home base is so much cheaper that it is worth to do two trips versus 1 trip with diesel.

The reason electric trucks are not yet everywhere is that the truck makers ask ridiculous amounts for battery cells that are still wired in series and discharged too fast to last long. Simply bad design. We need a disruptive electric truck startup and we need a disruptive battery startup. Investors welcome...

My message is that to reach 1 cent per kWh we need to solar electrify all our infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEOPx2X-EtE

Also Trump doubling solar panel prices with tarifs and shutting down subsidies is wrong, it makes it much more expensive. Add an oil third world war however does help, we sold double solar, batteries and evs in the last month.

1 kWh Wind, or Hydro, Thermal and other renewables do not go down as much in cost price because they have mechanical or chemical components that do not last as long as solar cells and need maintenance and repair.

We keep the cost low by group buying in bulk at wholesale prices (a shipping container with 770 panels for 20-30 houses) with our coop instead of premium installer prices by the electrotechnical or building companies. If you let our Fiberhood coöperative in the US install your solar, batteries, tiny house or eCamper you do not pay these high tariffs, we have enough panels pre-tariff. So you still can hit 1 cent per kWh but only if you get the decent installers and sellers.

So for a mild climate your installer seems to have done you a disservice and probably overcharged you. You can heat an average house with solar for under $14K if properly installed.

It is the same with the article we are commenting on here: if people just listen to the statistics, the simulations and the actual market developments they would see that 100% solar+battery is the cheapest energy.

The simple message is Solar is by far the cheapest energy: below 1 dollar cent per kWh and that will fall a lot more in the next decade until we get to 'a squanderable abundance of free and clean energy' as Bob Metcalf puts it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfsqdpHVFU Batteries still double the cost of that solar but these prices are falling rapidly too. It is already cheaper to have solar nearby than transmit it over a distance of a few miles.

More in my earlier comments weeks and months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=morphle

The crucial point though is the charging/discharging inverter (converter) that I purpose built (printed circuits boards) and a change to the car firmware. Without it the car will reject the battery, your acceleration would be less and it also would not last the same amount of discharge cycles. My battery electronics works fine for cars, trucks, boats, house and neighborhood batteries (up to 6mW per shipping container).

We build entire smart grids around the batteries, solar panels and tiny houses. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

I am surprised the author did not mention or uses Software Defined Networking (SDN), Openflow or P4 (programming language for programmable switches) or the mininet simulator. He must have skipped reading the scientific literature even though he is a computer science sophomore?

I programmed and build one of the very first ISP hardware and software systems in 1987-1997 when we connected the first submarine link between the US and Europe in Amsterdam.

Google switched 50% of the internet that they owned in 2012 to SDN and Openflow [1]. I'm sure they progressed to P4 and more recent SDN controllers since then. They build the Google Fiber ISP[5] with SDN. Cloudflare also uses SDN when last I checked. A majority of the internet has moved to SDN (there are many versions.

The author built his simulation on legacy systems mostly from the Telecom world, an alternate reality distinct from the real internet and acces providers we call ISPs. Telecom systems are about surveillance and monetizing the free internet.

You can query the US ISPs on the Nanog mailing list, there are similar social media for the European, Asian and other ISPs on other continents. Beware that those are biased to Telecom as well as Tier 1 network operators and less to ISP access providers.

I do not think we should continue with the current implementation of the internet. I think we should start deploying the true internet (decentralized, peer to peer) standard and expand it to the Enernet standards of the near future: every building a router (switch) and fiber optic and electricity cables to their peers; their closest neighbors. If every building has peer connections than you are connected all the way to the internet exchanges without need for Tech Bros, Government, Telecom, ISP or Tier 1 network oligopolies. True internet [3], true Enernet [4].

[1] OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4

[2] The Future of Networking, and the Past of Protocols - Scott Shenker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHeyuD89n1Y

[3] Fiberhood White Paper https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

[4] Enernet - Bob Metcalfe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfsqdpHVFU

[5] Google Fiber build "Fiberhoods" but my own Enernet ISP Fiberhood had trademarked that name before in 2011.

Same with clearing the underbush of Meditaranian and hotter climate forest to prevent forest fires. If humanity had not managed those forest (grazing animals, building roads, harvesting) in the first place than there would have been no buildup of excess material that sustain wildfires past its natural rate.

Yes, we must. It is so rare to see someone saying this in public. Thank you for this simple clarity.

Stop burning everything! Fossil fuel, wood, plastic, garbage, paper. Stop making methane.

We only need solar energy at 1 dollarcent or eurocent (it will get much cheaper still!!) and a little batteries for the convenience of using electricity when the sun does not shine.

In the north and south you need more solar panels in the winter than in the summer by a factor of 50. But that pays it back in summer when you have a squanderable abundance of free and clean energy. We can store that surplus energy in purifying drinking water, melting iron ore or aluminum [5], melting reusable plastics or purifying silicon ingots.

Storing surplus heat or cold in the ground is another luxury, because it is more expensive than 1 dollarcent or eurocent solar running a heatpump.

Wind and hydro are also more costly than solar so they are another luxury with worse environmental costs than pure solar cells.

We need to build Enernet, a peer to peer electricity net and internet between all buildings with power routers. for around 100 dollar per building. You buy and sell your house surplus solar electricity to the neighborhood where it can be stored in car batteries. See my Fiberhood white paper [2].

[1] Enernet: Squanderable abundance of free and clean energy - Bob Metcalfe https://youtu.be/axfsqdpHVFU?t=1565

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

[3] Amory Lovins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02BNSUxxEA

[4] Saul Griffith on the one billion machines that will electrify America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEOPx2X-EtE

[5] 101 million machines away from a zero emission Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ8-uAhG-zs

We build on the shoulders of the generation that built Smalltalk but just retired. There is a huge amount of documentation, science papers and talks on how to implement it all.

We are starting to implement the final step: An autonomous European secure operating system running a hierarchy of Virtual Machines (message passing parallel bytecode Smalltalk, Lisp, Erlang) and Qemu VMs with a modern GUI in less than 30.000 lines of source code that can be fully understood by a single person.

We improved our hardware to a manicore European Morphle Engine processor architecture that can run microcode, bytecodes, X86, Arm, Risc-V and other Qemu supported processors faster than the native chips.

We have some funding from Ukrainian drone innovators that need cheap computer chips manufactured in Europe, not controlled by the US or China.

We hope the European Autonomy movement away from US Big Tech clouds, operating systems, surveillance and chips with political kill switches and backdoors built in will fund our operating system and app software.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI&t=2s

https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/index.htm...

This web link post, the original NEXT webbrowser as a web page, tries to celebrate and revive the reinvention of the broken wheel.

The World Wide Web, browser and html standards are a very broken wheel. Alan Kay, the inventor of personal computing, explains why:

https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=961

Some of the comments of youtube are fun too.

This lecture Alan aimed at this particular audience, the computer science (programming) students at University of Illinois, where they programmed the second browser, the second broken wheel 20 years after Alan and Dan had showed them how do do it better.

Dan Ingalls implemented most of Alan Kay's invention of the personal computer, in the following demo's he shows how to fix the webbrowser's broken wheel a bit.

The Lively Kernel would be another way to fix html but retain the web. Two demos says it all:

https://youtu.be/gGw09RZjQf8?t=147

https://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=234

Their Squeak, Etoys and Croquet fixed it completely:

Early Croquet demo (there are several others): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO7av2ZFB8

Croquet in webbrowser: https://codefrau.github.io/jasmine/

Demo of webbrowser replacement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM

Squeak and all its predecessors: https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org

Etoys: https://squeak.js.org/etoys/

Your code is just a very limited webbrowser. The webbrowsers, html are a very broken wheel. Alan Kay, the inventor of personal computing, explains why https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=961

This lecture Alan aimed at this audience, the computer science (programming) students at University of Illinois, where they programmed this broken wheel 20 years after Alan had showed them how do do it better.

Paul Graham should not have based HN (Hacker News) on the web and html but on WYSIWYG, then you would not have had to fix it with your app.

The Lively Kernel would be another way to fix html but retain the web. Two demos says it all:

https://youtu.be/gGw09RZjQf8?t=147

https://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=234

Dan Ingalls implemented most of Alan Kay's invention of the personal computer, in these demo's he shows how to fix the webbrowser's broken wheel a bit. Their Squeak, Etoys and Croquet fixed it completely:

Early Croquet demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO7av2ZFB8

Croquet in webbrowser: https://codefrau.github.io/jasmine/

Demo of webbrowser replacement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM

Squeak and all its predecessors: https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org

Etoys: https://squeak.js.org/etoys/

Thank you for the MIT license, I’ll be able to add my own.

It also works on my fork of the old news server.

On the second screen of the app there is already an infuriating bug: they ask to give your work email because than you go hire in priority on their invite-only waiting list. So you type in your email again and again and again, alternating between all your emails, but you keep returning to the form asking for your work email. You check those emails to see if they send you something to activate your account but nothing. Exasperated you try the only other button, sign up with private email instead. Guess that works, because you leave the infinite loop. But than zilch, nada, nothing.

Don't these script-kiddies use their own app?