Glen - Thanks... that entire body of code is long lost to bit-rot and sequestration behind a high security fence. The bit of java/processing I shared with you a year or more ago was a (lame) attempt to get back to that, but with the dynamic aspect implicit... interesting/useful dynamic test data is hard to come by. Weeks of work to resurrect a fraction of years of work! Sometimes that is a good ratio for refactoring.
I think the *coupling* of systems at different scales and in different domains (power grid generation vs home consumption for example) is a challenge for society... most of us don't really understand the heat-flux dynamics of our own homes under normal conditions, so when we go into extreme weather (or resource limitation/interruption) we are not particularly prepared to make good decisions. And all this while operators/regulators/politicians are trying to set and execute policy for the larger infrastructure. From what little (and archaic) knowledge I have of energy-distribution systems (electric and NG in particular), I think they have very limited (but reflecting normal operating ranges, including "normal" extrema) heuristics for control... 20 years ago it seems that expert operators with decades of experience and intuition were very critical for proper/safe/efficient operation of these grids. It seems like a great domain for machine learning, at the very least for smoothing out transition regions between different operating regimes. I believe that shutting down any of these (sub)systems has huge implications for the infrastructure. The development of microgrid technology would seem to have good potential for stabilizing regional grids. TX, after this incident, would seem to be a good place to accelerate adoption. CA with the PG&E wind/wildfire problems would seem to be another good place to focus on introduction of hybrid grids that have more local generation and finer grain islanding capabilities. I'm chatting later with my NREL client and may get some insight... At the very least the implications of having Rick Perry's (and successor Broulliete) lame hand/brain off the tiller of the ship of DOE... Perry's recent public statements on the TX weather/power/energy crisis are an extra level of absurd on top of the other myriad TX GOP voices trying to play both sides of the politics. I doubt that Perry learned much of anything about DOE during his tenure. - Steve > Your graphs are interesting, even without interactivity or 3d. But more > interesting still would be their (potential) evolution through time. If I > understand the TX situation correctly, the "hoarding" behavior you mentioned > was an accidental increase in load with which the traditional energy sources > couldn't keep up ... less about bumping up the thermostat for a buffer and > more about simple demand. > > It would be interesting to see a dynamic graph of the load/demand. > > > On 2/16/21 7:58 PM, Steve Smith wrote: >> We did not get around to visualizing dynamic graph loading... it is still >> somewhat of a holy grail in the biz. - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
