@jwildeboer Excellent, I hope the oil crisis will make it roll faster.

@jwildeboer afaik this is already happening in various places, for example on california, where they hooked up user's batteries to the grid (includong EV's), and the utility was able to pull into the grid at peak time to avoid blackouts. They also changed building code to require all new construction to have solar panels. The EU otoh is very behing on both central and distributed battery. And I see no mandates to install solar in the southern states where a crapton of energy could be made.

@jwildeboer I have tought for many years about the supposed abundance of digital goods, and one problem is that the situation is incorrectly stated. Digital goods are asymmetrical. They are aboundant after creation. But they don't pop into existence done. Creation relies on scarce resources (time/people). So the imbalance is what it makes it hard to deal with, and a pure capitalistic approach tries to extend that scarcity beyond creation, to make a profit.