This has been done for many years. And it's not X-10. X-10 would be way too slow and unreliable. This system is called Light-O-Rama

The gutter cleaner is not the latest. It has been around for years and has already been seen on wholesale surplus selloff sites like woot.com

oops, i had a coworker switch which article i was looking at while i was afk. Ignore this.

1. That's not a vacuum model. It's an irobot Create which is just a platform to build hobby robots off. It has no cleaning power at all.

2. This is an old video. I mean OLD; years old. It was done by a few geeks asked to demo what the irobot create could do, when they were first introduced to the market. That's all, no 'hamster cleaning' market in mind.

Bad slashdot, bad. Check your sources before publishing a story.

1. That's not a vacuum model. It's an irobot Create which is just a platform to build hobby robots off. It has no cleaning power at all.

2. This is an old video. I mean OLD; years old. It was done by a few geeks asked to demo what the irobot create could do, when they were first introduced to the market. That's all, no 'hamster cleaning' market in mind.

Bad slashdot, bad. Check your sources before publishing a story.

Generators and climate control built into containers is not a new idea at all. Traveling carnivals have used generators in containers for decades. The same for air conditioning for outdoor boat shows. The fact that Sun is just offering the option to go with boxed data centers when costumers could have easily just contracted out to a generator company instead isn't news.

While we could go back and forth on the grid and if ready or not, the data isn't 100% conclusive. Although, i will add that a power plant takes 30-50 yrs to build from location scouting to full power production, so if we do need more power we better decide soon.

My concern is what the article says about charge time. It claims 1000 horses and a distance of 150 miles per charge. If even you stay conservative on some of the unknown variables, that is a high capacity battery to store that much energy. And to have a battery with such low internal resistance that is is able to fully charge in 10 minutes jumps out at me. That means a very high current battery charger to deliver that much energy in that short of time.

Imagine this, a whole street of rich boys all getting that car, coming home from the office at the same time, and plugging in there car simultaneously. I fear there might be a new strain on local low voltage (compared to power transmission) power distribution systems. This might cause a whole new concern for the power industry, besides the fear of low power production capability.

Exactly; lol, thank you. And Ehud, make sure when you try to argue something, that you are not arguing with an expert in the field. Electrical Engineer with specializations in Power

I'm confused, your google results confirm what i said, along with everyone else posting. So, thanks? for backing me up i guess.

Well, they would have a problem if they followed that. Technically its 120 V RMS, 170V peaking voltage.

I live in Florida and FPL already has a system like this in place and has so for the better part of a decade. It's called FPL On Call. It let's FPL shut off certain appliances you wire to there smart boxes when the grid is under heavy load. My neighbors have them tied to there pool filtration system. For the discount they give on the bill, it's not a bad deal for non-essential appliances. I would never wire my whole house to one though. Or my A/C system. The other talk about letting the power system control your smart house seems ridiculous. If i'm going to build a smart house, i'm going to be the one who controls it, not the power company.