Power Mesh
August 18, 2006 at 11:40 pm | In Energy, News | 1 CommentGridPoint Systems is selling, among other things a box for homes and businesses that helps reduce energy costs by intelligently managing the flow to and from the power grid using the internet.
“The computers in these boxes are making decisions with regards to energy based on the value of energy at that point in time and the historical consumption of that residence,” Lewis said, adding that part of the company’s management team has a background in software and communications.
Electricity tariffs that change over the course of the day to reflect fluctuations in demand are still not commonplace for U.S. consumers. However, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (click for PDF) calls on state utility regulatory bodies to explore “time-based metering and communications” next year, which would allow customers to participate in “time-based pricing rate schedules and other demand response programs.”
Clearly this adds meaning to the idea of flowing power to the peers
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[...] I agree with the author of MySpace Viral Growth Numbers that “true viral growth” isn’t inherently exponential but rather only starts out that way. It is worth noting however that “true” paradigm shifts like the web and the meshverse, create entirely new market segments and impact many different ones. MySpace was just an extension of an existing paradigm, whereas Second Life is the precursor of a truly new paradigm. As part of the Meshed-up Jungle, Second Life growth isn’t likely to level out soon as they will get a substantial number of the 100’s of millions of members at MySpace, AOL, MSN and GoogleEarth who aren’t willing to wait for a virtual world-based social space. Moreover, social-networks aren’t even the largest part of the meshed-up jungle of the meshverse! Many more billions of spatially oriented devices capable of processing information and communicating are about to join the party using RFID, GPS, and the electric power grid. The meshverse is also what will fuel the emergence of desktop manufacturing, which like desktop publishing before it will spawn a sizable new industry. The meshverse is not viral but exponential and whether one agrees with Kurzweil’s Singularity premise or not, it’s appears that we’re on the cusp of some very high impact change. [...]
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