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Building the Energy Internet

Posted by michael on from the batteries-not-included dept.

Ant writes "This article talks about transforming today's dumb electricity grid into a smart, responsive and self-healing digital network--in short, an 'energy internet'."

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  1. Transforming... by pacman+on+prozac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Transforming the electricity grid into the worlds largest human microwave.

  2. Oblig by bbrazil · · Score: 5, Funny

    RFC3251 - Electricity over IP

    1. Re:Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Then we have dinner!

  3. Don't do this! by Doomrat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't do this. Seriously. Building adapting, sentient networks of energy always ends in the Universe being destroted. I KNOW BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO ME.

    1. Re:Don't do this! by Doomrat · · Score: 4, Funny

      By removing its strots.

  4. wonderful... by Perdition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now my lamps and appliances can get spammed too. Progress.

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    1. Re:wonderful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      well, it wouldn't happen if your lamps and appliances didn't buy from the spammers.

    2. Re:wonderful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Lamp Spam?

      "Improve your wattage! Increase the size of your Candlepower! Feel like a lighthouse, not a wimpy oven light! Send your master's credit card information to..."

  5. Great... by Stopmotioncleaverman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my fridge will get spammed (sic), worms will infest my lightbulbs, my appliances will get deleted left right and centre, and my house will reboot at odd times, being slower to switch back on and losing more electricity points each time it does.

    Not to mention the 'Blackout.A throgh Blackout.J' DDoS that's gonna be happening on SCO's HQ...

    1. Re:Great... by NerdHead · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't buy MS-HOUSE. Be leary of some open source homes too.

  6. Re:already /.ed? by chewtoy-11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you using Internet over Power Lines technology?

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  7. Re:Move over hax0rs by Jonathan+the+Nerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the plus side, you could remotely redirect 50000 volts to your favorite spammer.

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  8. Slashdot Effect by osullish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean if a site is slashdotted we can cause a blackout in the surrounding area?

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  9. when I get my own home by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm going to use "open source" electricity, from the wind and the sun. :P
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  10. Just ask Mr. Gore by Gothmolly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since he knows both about energy and the Internet

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  11. Re:The grid is smarter than you think by SmackCrackandPot · · Score: 3, Funny

    How many people have been frustrated that their mail server is down, yet not realised they can WALK over to their colleague and TALK to him?

    Yes, I've tried, but he's always busy moderating slashdot comments.

  12. Woohoo! by bobej1977 · · Score: 2, Funny

    FR33 3l3CTR1C1TY F0R H4X0R5!!!

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