On 06/26/16 10:39, Russell Reiter wrote:
On Jun 25, 2016 2:55 PM, "Michael Galea via talk" <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
The truth is quite mundane. The security situation is no better or
no worse than any other application.
Hey in cybersecurity, one person's mundane truth is another's selections of statistics. It all depends on your perspective regarding the threat.
I ran a microgrid in in the basement of the Cooper Coo Family center for 6 months last year. It was debian with an outgoing connection firewall. The microgrid made an openvpn connection to our central site. It is invisible. Even then, all the internal applications are passworded. We also use Strongswan VPNs to connect to remote telemetry Nets in the cloud. Nothing new here, nothing sexy.
Thats ok, I'm not new and sexy either; still in the diesel generator backup age.
I wasn't particularly commenting on the operational state of things.
I lived through both big east coast blackouts. These are my impressions.
We call it the grid. It's modular, assignable, interruptable and defendable. Other than dropping magnesium strips on the high tension feed, it's robust.
It's the nature of its inherent vulnerabilities, which led to the developing of microgrid failover solutions. Mostly for hospitals and military and other institutional settings.
With all the current advances in quantum measurement, I just thought it would be interesting if the grid's heuristics could be more automated in order to repel unsigned loads and avoid blackout conditions.
Notwithstanding any future microgrid sharing, failover or other, which may come into play in communities in the future.
Here's a neat phone grid tap for failover. Keep your phone charged during a blackout.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxx-4bUo4Q
It is possible that in the future your air conditioner may have to send a bitcion fraction or switch to a micro grid reserve in order to work outside your mains subscription time.
Yes, what you're speaking of is called transactional energy. The idea is that if you want to run some load, you may be able to get a better rate from the the person down the street. Alternatively, you may gay a better rate for your own energy then the utility is willing to pay. So you will find them, bid for a contract with them and pay for it through a blockchain transaction. The utility will take a small cut, for putting the two of you together supplying the wires between you, and verify the transfer. After all, if you move enough power between yourselves you will exceed the thermal limit of you overhead lines. The utility would be continuously modeling the effects of various disparate power flows on the grid and allowing them when safe to do so. Now, I have to say, if you have ANY experience with electric utilities I would imagine you are positively laughing by now. When one utility CEO was recently asked how they slept at night they replied "Just like a baby, I sleep for two hours and then I cry until morning". -- Michael Galea