This energy scam has been going on for more than 30 years in Europe and the UK.
The former Economic minister and professor Yanis Varoufakis explains [1].
My Fiberhood cooperative has a solution: the Enernet smart grid where you pay $0.01 per kWh. We wire up one in three houses or more in a neighborhood with power routers. People buy and sell only solar electricity from panels in the neighborhood, from batteries and from every ev charging station on every parking spot in the neighborhood and from every parked ev. Each participating house saves $2000 to $5000 per year for 30 years or more[2]. You also get free 25 Gbps internet. You heat your house with a heatpump or cool the house with an ice storage ac powered only by solar. If the cooperative makes any money the share the profit with all the members or they vote to buy more solar panels and batteries. The cooperative gives loans to houses that can not afford their own panels.
People seem to have trouble understanding how commodity markets naturally price their goods but the whole point of this website is to show that electricity prices are finally decoupling.
edit: I didn’t watch the videos, I don’t have time first watch a video and then to dissect bullshit from truth.
But the solar electricity is still overpriced and taxed. People pay several times more for solar electricity from the grid than what they get if they sell to the grid.
It's not overpriced. If it was, the grid operator would be raking in massive profits because they're selling way above cost. In reality grid operators have small margins, this indicates there is no overpricing.
Do you get paid less for power fed to the grid than power sold at retail? Yes. Because they're different things. You get say 5 cents for a kWh fed back to the grid, while you pay more like 25c. But guess what? Wholesalers also get 5 cents to sell to the grid. It's just that there's an additional 20 cents in grid operation and taxes for a retail price.
Taxes you can't avoid, it's not a 'scam'. It's money you pay that goes into public funds and returns to the public, and is spent by people you can vote to elect to represent you.
Grid costs also aren't a scam, they're just a cost of doing business. Again, profit margins are small, so they're pricing based on cost, not based on scam.
And it's all entirely optional. You can just install batteries yourself. You can do whatever you want. You don't have to use the grid. But surprise surprise, there's no reason to think that a small network is on average cheaper than a big network. The bigger the network the easier it is to share storage capacity and offload excesses from one place to another. It's the reason most states and countries try to build interconnectors to even build international grids, and why islands like Cyprus that don't interconnect and have small markets have the highest electricity prices. It's why anyone who builds a home and has the choice to connect to an available grid or not, does so. And why land and homes in locations without grid-access are valued less, because they're more expensive to set-up.
The cost of a nationwide grid is significant. Depending on the terrain and population density, it usually nets out at somewhere between 30%-50% the overall cost of electricity. Sure, if you run a microgrid among a few houses, you won't pay those costs, but someone has to pay the cost to maintain the km of lines to reach deep into the mountains of Bavaria.
Microgrids also have some black swan events that can result in outage; if you are reliant on solar and storage but then experience a 7-day long period of stormy weather and no production. As you note, off-grid is always an option, and when you seriously look into it, you quickly find that costs to have that 24/7/365 service are many times more than just paying to connect to the grid.
At least in the us - the only way a utility can really make more money is by spending more money (as they get a return from the utility commission on a vested capital - massive oversimplification) but it means utilities are not incentivized to spend less rather than more…
Same in Australia, after they were corporatised (turned into companies run for profit rather than run as a service by some level of government) it was recognised that as natural monopolies there would need to be some sort of regulation on how much money they could recover, it was decided a method based on their costs was best, so they spent bad money agter good im expanding the network hugely (based on crazy projections of growth in demand to nowhere) rather than building resilience into the network and lowering their costs.
And that’s not even the cost of marketisation, that’s just the regulated network costs.
The government employees who approve or deny the utility’s priced have an incentive to not approve higher prices. Their bosses are usually elected, and higher utility prices are very unpopular.
I was told by a former southern company exec that the McKinsey did a study for them and their largest competitive advantage was regulatory capture in the states in which they operate - unfortunately I think the politicians are more beholden to the utilities than their constituents..
It’s really not - we built a rather large solar plant for one of our facilities offsetting like at most like 15% of demand, but because we were paying high utility rates it was a low double digit ROI project just on the spread between us it commercial rates and our cost of production (even higher when you added in the tax incentives) if you can build solar at utility scale costs and defray commercial or retail rates it’s a pretty good deal the problem is getting those utility scale cost structures when the projects are small…
The value of electricity is extremely time dependent. You can easily overproduce solar power for your house during the day fairly cheaply. However batteries + gas generators for cloudy day quickly make the cost significantly higher.
The grid gives you expensive guarantees about reliability. Just giving power does not do that.
If you are selling to the grid, there is probably over-supply. Prices are driven by supply and demand. If you want to avoid selling at lower prices and buying at higher, try and get a battery. Check ecoflow to get an idea of the costs.
Ecoflow is a good example of overpriced American tech. I payed $1500 for a 2 kWh battery. Our Fiberhood coop sells a 16kWh battery for $1800. Prices in China are lower still.
Prices have been dropping like crazy as the various battery manufacturers have been competing with each other. They are all pretty similarly priced at this point.
A 2kwh ecoflow now costs $800. Still overpriced, but the gap is steadily narrowing.
Also, $1800 for 16kwh is a great price. That's $112/kWh. That's pretty close to raw cell costs.
Does the battery pack also come with charge circuitry, inverter, bms?
The price for grid power ought to be somewhat higher than the the grid operator(s) pay at the place where the power is delivered into the grid plus their own costs for running the actual grid. So what do you think is a fair price for building/maintaining/running the grid?
The grid is a nationwide electrical circuit with requirements to connect to most buildings, and with demanding uptime and safety requirements. How much ought building and maintaining that to cost?
You can sign up by becoming a member of the Fiberhood cooperative for free. Send an email to Fiberhood at icloud dot com. We must have your address and map location link or Google map address code so we can draw maps and make a website for your neighborhood to sign up and form an Enernet.
We will do a small survey and put up a detailed map of your neighborhood (like openstreetmap, see the slide in this talk [1]). We hand out door to door flyers and organise a weekend barbeque neighborhood party where everyone can come see how the cable between neighbours goes roof-to-roof, window-to-window or garden-to-garden between power routers. See our cost price bifacial solar panels and the large batteries.
We find that within a few weeks a few hundred people signed up for the cooperative and we start installing the first 10 houses. Most people invest in solar panels and batteries at wholesale prices installed by volunteers. Others get a loan to pay for this. You wind up getting payed for the panels you bought or paying around 1 dollar cent per kWh, saving a few thousand dollars per years for decades.
In the US the Rocky Mountain Institute and its founder Amory Lovins describes this as 'grid defection' and it happens on a large scale now.
Fiberhood has cooperatives forming all around the world, both rural and urban: Ukraine, Peru (near Iquitos by the Indian tribe on the Amazon River Bank, Southern Spain, Slovenia, Finland, The Netherlands, Australia.
The Fiberhood planner maps are in the first slides in the first minute of the video. We used to have an interactive zooming map of Fiberhoods for every house in the Netherlands online but now we only have them available for Fiberhood members because of privacy rules. On the maps you can see where the batteries, solar panels and power routers are located in a Fiberhood version of Google Streetview.
Yes and no, not really. There are many smart grids and more not-so smart grids around the world, but only a few are non-commercial or owned by the members.
Fiberhood is unique in that we have our own Enernet power routers (a software controlled multi-port bidirectional AC-DC-DC inverter peer to peer network) that can share large amounts of DC current, has special power aggregation to enable megawatt EV chargers in every house, battery nano-inverters that make cheap batteries last up to 20000 charge/discharge cycles, integrate (free) discarded solar panels and has a range of software defined networking options including 4 x 25 Gbps internet ports per house. Most smart grids are just a different meter and payment scheme, not a radical rewiring of the entire electricity system in the neighborhood without a commercial company or government controlling what citizens pay. Other smart grids raise the cost of grid defection, Fiberhood tech makes it possible to have abundant redundant solar energy at its cost price $0.01 per kWh, many times cheaper than national AC grid pricing anywhere in the world. The tech was made to prevent making money on energy but incentivize solving the climate crises by making Solar by far the cheapest option. Stop almost all carbon and methane greenhouse gas emissions by going 100% solar.
Please give some proof of Varoufakis lying. I always check what he claims in his books and talks and I never spotted a lie. I also check Saul Griffith and Amory Lovins talks, books and papers on factual errors and never spotten one in two decades.
First I agree that the energy scam in the EU is a big one.
> The former Economic minister and professor Yanis Varoufakis explains [1].
He doesn't "explain" anything. He proposes a model. He was minister of finance when Greece had to deal with the EU to negociate the terms of Greece's partial default on its public debt.
I don't think we should listen to what leftists who have been in charge of a country's public debt default as if it was the gospel when it comes to fixing an energy crisis.
Of course the model proposed by a leftist is a cooperative one. Resting on the shoulders of a lot of electronics and software built by capitalism.
I'm not saying it cannot work: I'm saying "your country freaking defaulted on its public debt, so I'm cautious with your genius ideas".
1k chips for $4000 or $7000 at 180nm is (a lot) more expensive than 180nm at MOSIS or Europractice, I wound not call it reasonable, especially because the EDA software tools and PDK used are inferior.
I went though the list of prices at Europractice. Waferspace is 7000 USD for 1k of 20mm2. That is a per mm2 price of 350 USD. I could not find any offering at Europrice that matches that?
Chip fabs do not publish prices. First of all, the cost price of making a wafer is not a single item. What node, on what chip machine are they going to be made, what process, what PDK, are you breaking any of the PDK limits, what testing has your design went trough, what types and numbers of slices to chip the wafer, are there test before the chips get chipped or only after they are chipped, what packages the chips are in. Insurance types and fees, locations, what batches. All these steps can be performed in different fabs with different companies and subcontractors, between them they might have to ship your wafer under clean room conditions, sometimes flow around the world.
A wafer batch price is a very complex multi-party negotiation under NDAs, none of them has ever been made public. Show me any credible price quotes from the last 55 year (fe few million chips). You can't.
On these multi party shuttle projects this gets simplified into a price list where they quote you a high ball-park number that covers your test chips cost by a wide margin. The actual cost is never disclosed, certainly not on price lists.
A mask set maker and a chip fab create half of your product, they own that intellectual product and they won't even tell you what it has cost them. They merge their product with yours, now thyey co-own your product. There are only a few competing companies world wide (and getting fewer every year) and they compete on all this non-disclosed stuff. Prices above all.
Never belief what you read on the internet, especially in the chips war industry.
You are the one that claimed the prices of those shuttle services were lower than that of WaferSpace. 7k USD for 1k chips of 20mm2 at 180nm. Is it not the case?
There are over a hundred [1] shuttle services (group purchasing of test chips on a multi-project wafer) in they world. Several are even free, academic and universities offer them to students or PhD, some state sponsored in China and Europe, some start at $100, some very specialized, others as a 'sample' from big chip fabs, some offered on the cheap to get you hooked, tied in to a chip fab's PDK onder several NDA's.
There are a few EDA companies, all with ancient software tools but kept up to date with the changing parameters and algorithms. You use the tools the insurance companies tell you or the mandatory tools of your chip fab suppliers. They use a lot of software tools on your design files you never get to see.
If you want to make better chips, like the low power Apple Silicon for example, you create your own EDA software tools to make the innovation. Creating a new transistor like the CFET [1] means writing new physics simulation tools, for example.
The outdated 1990's and buggy Open Lane software for example limits what kind of RAM transistors you can make or the complexity of your design.
My team makes asynchronous chips, free space optics photonics, ultra dense 2 transistor SRAM, niobium SQF chips, wafer scale integrations. All require bespoke software simulation tools, netlist rewriting tools, cross-reticle stepper exposure software (a software change in a $400 million dollar machine), etc etc.
Making hardware near atomic size structures is mostly a software job. Hardware is software crystalized early, Alan Kay quips.
You can come work with us/for us and scale your SerDes design for us. That gets you actual wafer mask sets taped-out, a million chips and a WSI, not just test chips. A succesful SerDes will get you a job (at least in Europe).
How fast will the SerDes run, 50 Mhz? It is not clear to me from the serdes_tile.dart source code.
Can you share the verilog files?
The problem is you can make test chips like Aegis for around $10 (depending on the yield, on how many of the first 1000 chips actually work) but they are just that, test chips.
In the case of Morphle Logic we make wafer scale integrations (WSI) with 10 billion transistors at 180nm for $750. That yields around 300 million 'gates', the largest commercial FPGA's barely get to 3 million. So our Morphle Logic WSI is the largest and fastest (up to 12 Ghz) FPGA you could get if we can find a few hundred buyers who want to pay up front (crowdfunding). Please email me if you are interested in such a enormous fast FPGA.
I'll buy an Aegis FPGFA test chip just to find out how hard it is to test a test chip.
Good luck RossComputerGuy, I hope you get working chips back. The same fab and supplier lost our first taped-out chips in the mail... and then they went bankrupt.
I struggled a bit to understand the explanation on github, but eventually got to something that made sense. It would have helped me if it said up front that
- 0, 1, N and Y pass the input signal on (works like a | or - in the input direction), and that
- when a circuit has both a 0 and 1 output value, the output becomes 0 (which is why 11 is an AND and not a OR)
Hopefully that's correctly understood? If so, maybe consider updating the explanation for the next person.
Also, a question: Does a 0 and 1 on the same circuit consume more power than two 0s or two 1s due to the conflicting values? Or is it solved with transistors at the cost of propagation delay? Or something else?
Thank you for pointing out I need to improve the explanations.
We made seven different implementations of Morphle Logic, some of which are lower power, use less transistors, different ways to do asynchronous logic or are based on superconducting josephson junctions instead of transistors.
In this particular case the two tokens probably consume the same amount of power regardless of their value, but only measurements will tell.
I guess the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC has 18.5 million cells. The VU19P is more than half in LUT count.
Morphle Logic WSI has over 47,169,811 yellow cells. You could say that a single yellow Morphle Logic cell is more complex than ten Versal cells, but it's an apples and oranges comparison. However you count it, the $500 Morphle Logic WSI (cost price) has 10 billion transistors, the AMD Versal Premium cost over $100.000 and is effectively smaller in terms of gates, LUTs or cells even though it has 138 billion transistors.
If I made the Morphle Logic WSI in 2nm TSMC, it would have more than 52 trillion transistors [1], at least 245,283,018,867 yellow cells and cost over $22.500. You could easily emulate several AMD Versal Premium VP1902 FPGA's on the wafer.
Tbh I did forget about versal but yes the PL of the VP1902 absolutely has more than 3 million logic gates no matter how you slice it. I have no doubt that there are non-fpgas with more, but it is a bit disingenuos to say they're orders of magnitude under where they actually are.
I'll also note that it has a ton of SRAM onboard which doesn't shrink well, so I'm not convinced just by that extrapolation that you could eclipse it with a simple lithography shrink. Unless you really meant several per wafer, which doesn't really feel like a hard target...
Complex processors like AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium 4, which were made in 180 nm a quarter of century ago, had clock frequencies between 1 GHz and 2 GHz. Pentium 4 used internally a double frequency clock for the simpler 32-bit arithmetic-logic units, i.e. up to around 4 GHz.
Today the manufacturing process could be better optimized than 25 years ago, so some logic circuits much simpler than a 64-bit CPU (the previous were 32-bit CPUs for integers, but they had 64-bit/80-bit FPUs working at full speed), i.e. with much less gate delays per pipeline stage, might be able to reach 12 GHz.
However, something like a 64-bit ALU will certainly not reach 12 GHz. Even a 32-bit ALU is very unlikely to reach 12 GHz. Simple things, like shift registers and Galois-field counters, might reach such speeds, or even higher.
The next CMOS process generation, i.e. 130 nm, already allows making complex processors with more than a half of the maximum clock frequency of the fastest processors of today. It also allows making analog amplifiers and mixers for the 5 GHz WiFi frequency bands.
This is plainly wrong. I'm a chip designer. There's no way to implement a DFF operating at 12 GHz in 180nm, period. This isn't an optimization problem, it is physics.
[2] "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke
You should store your solar energy as heat. You move the heat from outside or underground into your house with a heat pump where the heat storage lasts a week or more. You need very little solar to heat your house this way.
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.
I emailed you. You can work with us as it is a booming market in Europe and Ukraine (and probably in China too), you could expand our market into the USA. We build charging stations, big batteries (see my other posts in this thread and in my HN profile), Enernet smart grids and entire solar only neighborhoods (houses, solar, batteries, fast internet, water and sewage infrastructure) remotely, all based on 100% solar. From $40K per tiny house.
I build off-grid electrical campers (Mercedes eSprinter) with extended 600kWh batteries (11 times more battery capacity than the default model) and charge them from solar panels at home. I disagree with your negative mindset, people who ride in my eCamper quickly learn you can go 100% solar and use you camper at home to store all neighborhood solar and even charge other EVs from our eCamper battery. We make our own parallel battery cell dis/charger to extent the LFP battery life to 20000 charges (one a day for 50 years).
15kWh 48V LFP battery around $1800 with low quality battery management system in metal box on wheels. Car batteries need more expensive inverters if you want to fast charge them (150kW-950kW) and super fast discharge them while driving fast (>100 kW). Thus my 600kW extender comes to almost $62000 for vans and small trucks. Cheaper if installed as house battery. The Mercedes eSprinter 56kW van costs around $80000 new but we sell 3 year old vans like this for $4000 without battery. So refurbished and converted to eCamper with 1800 mile range you pay $6700. You can drive 3000 km (almost 1860 miles) with this battery in the eSprinter and eCamper. A normal size car would go twice as far with this battery but it's big and heavy enough that you need to tow it in a trailer.
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).
eSprinter 2022 is 56kWh. In Europe I'm limited in the size of a battery by the total legal weight of van and it's trailer combined. So I can not tow more weight than 600KWh LFP batteries with this particular van. But with $0.01 cost per kWh it only cost $60 (52,08 Euro) for a full charge, good for 2000 km (Amsterdam to southern Spain). So even though I carry 5.5-6 times as much weight as a small city car around, it cost me a lot less than having a tiny battery and charging at commercial chargers with $0.40-$0.90 fees per kWh. And a lot less than gasoline (benzine) or diesel.
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...
But 600 kWh is about ~4k kg, no? Isn't that like the max hauling a sprinter can do? So doesn't this just get you a bunch of range at the "cost" of not being able to haul anything or am I missing something?
7000 kg is the maximum a van and its trailer can way by law in Europe. It can haul a lot more.
No, my eSprinter camper is a small room with kitchen, bed and shower. The trailer ways 3500 kg, the eSprinter 2670. I could haul at least 889 kilo more. If I had the bigger motor I could haul twice as much.
Thank you. I hardly get to explain the techology I 'invent' (power chips, power router, parallel battery charger, car firmware, charging (station) software, simulation software) because the investors customers only want to hear that its cheaper or sells better (then Tesla). Or that besides going from 4000 to 20000 dis/charge cycles you also prevent any li-ion fires and have fire alarm sensors on every battery cell. The main thing I would like to shout from the rooftops is: Not a single battery on the planet charges their battery cells in parallel as we do, they all shorten their cell lifetime by charging/discharging them to fast in series, what will damage all battery cell types but especially the li-ion.
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.
$0,01 per kWh from solar, that is the price worldwide on the condition that they sell you the panels at a reasonable price and don't overcharge you on all the other parts like micro-inverters, field or rooftop installation, permitting and labour. That adds up to around 5 cent for rooftop solar in Australia for example (including everything). 1 cent is for solar panels lasting 50 years (with 20% degradation over decades), we refer to such prices as Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) over lifetime. It halved in the last 10 years for solar and it will halve again (20% cost reduction on each doubling of manufactured capacity). Similar for batteries, they also go down around 20% each year.
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.
Our energy storage solutions have widened. First you timeshift all electricity use of the car, house or neighborhood into daylight hours when the sun shines. This means a bunch of electronics and software changes. Next we build termal storage solutions, you can store heat much cheaper than electricity. You move heat around with a heat pump. Or you heat your water tank with a datacenter computer in your water tank (for free). In summer you store solar electricity in ice. Or you store it in iron, aluminum, glass or silicon by melting ore and purifying, You embodied the solar electricity into the purified ore.
In northern and southern latitudes you need 10 to 50 times more solar panels to heat houses during cold winters. This means you have large overcapacity in summer that you can sell as embodied iron, etc. Batteries are only needed to store for the hours there is no sunlight during 24 hours, no need to store longer. The cheapest place is to store it in the electrical cars in your neighborhood. That is why we install our own brand ev car chargers in the neighborhood of the panels. In contrast, Tesla chargers overcharge you a factor of 34 to 76 and that's partially because its fossil energy and transmitted over hundreds of miles.
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.
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].
well.. openflow is pretty much dead, too inflexible, too slow. The whole control/user plane split is an attempt of the classical router vendors to keep their proprietary boxes. It adds complexity as it requires to synchronize the state of some controller with some data plane box.
P4 was a great idea, but there's not much hardware that supports it.
fd.io / vpp is an impressive stack for software-only routing. Like all SW-only solutions, it suffers from high power consumption and packet rate variability. At today's packet rates, you always have to ask 'how many CPU instructions / cycles are required to perform this or that function per packet'.
Thank you for the context. I did start out with mininet, then moved to containernet->containerlab. Mininet could not model subscriber session lifecycle in how I wanted it. P4/Openflow is on the radar, thanks for the pointer.
The former Economic minister and professor Yanis Varoufakis explains [1].
My Fiberhood cooperative has a solution: the Enernet smart grid where you pay $0.01 per kWh. We wire up one in three houses or more in a neighborhood with power routers. People buy and sell only solar electricity from panels in the neighborhood, from batteries and from every ev charging station on every parking spot in the neighborhood and from every parked ev. Each participating house saves $2000 to $5000 per year for 30 years or more[2]. You also get free 25 Gbps internet. You heat your house with a heatpump or cool the house with an ice storage ac powered only by solar. If the cooperative makes any money the share the profit with all the members or they vote to buy more solar panels and batteries. The cooperative gives loans to houses that can not afford their own panels.
[1] Best version with info graffics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bo-s_OY4Q or
Longer version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NicE0-N9ux0&list=TLPQMDcwNDI... or
short version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHepQyE37Q
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...
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