A thing I feel a pending societal need for: standard, safely-used physical interfaces for home-scale battery storage.
If I have power but my neighbor doesn't, I should be able to unplug my own battery and wheel it across the street.
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@mhoye Car chargers, I think is in this direction?
(Extremely ironically but iirc there's no intellectual property ownership at play, the standard is gonna be Telsa's plug.)
Gimme a sec to find the Technology Connection video about it (demoing plugging in a (slightly hacked-together, it's a demo) space heater, iirc).
One thing that I'm excited about particularly is that solar power and batteries fundamentally changes the individual and community's relationship to the state.
Now-famously, the Amish refuse to connect to the grid, but today those communities use battery powered tools all the time, recharged by solar power.
Put differently: they aren't rejecting technology. They're rejecting dependency.
That logic scales, everywhere, for everyone, in direct proportion to the amount of available battery.
@mhoye also famously minimal npm usage within the Amish community
