[ExI] day 8 plus an idear

[spike at rainier66.com]

I went by the non-Musk charging station four times today.  The usual
scattering: three or four Teslas, an IC or two, nobody buying power.  I have
been by there about 20 times and have yet to see anyone connected and buying
power.  Failure of that business is imminent.

 

That gives me in idear however.  (Idears are better than ideas, for they
make money if they work, which is near and DEAR to my heart.)

 

I am confident that in the next decade, that charging station will never
fill every port.  He has 28 ports, twelve high speeds and sixteen regular
ports.  High end processors use about a KW (single digit estimates are good
enough for what I am doing) so a regular charger could run 15 of those.  We
set up 15 high end processors in IC truck, rig up some sincere air-handling
for cooling purposes, adapt the charger interface to an inverter (because
the power coming out of the charging station is DC) plug in, run your 15
processors at a cost of about 6 bucks an hour.

 

Or for the very ambitious, run 50 of the high end processors for about 20
bucks an hour on the high speed chargers.

 

Granted it seems engineeringly wrong to take utility company-supplied AC,
the charger station steps it down and rectifies it to DC, then we pay for
that signal conditioning only to undo it with our own inverter, paying for
the losses associated with that step.  But this is something a prole like me
could build at home with my modest mechanical skills (hey, false modesty is
a type of modesty (kinda sorta (or does that count as negative modesty?)))  

 

If I started with a junky old van, that wouldn't cost much, the internet
signal could be supplied by 15 StarLinks, I would need to figure out how to
rig up a very capable fan to draw in cooling air.  I think I could do that.

 

Better Idear: wait for the prole who built that charging station to go bust,
buy it from him for a song, take out the rectifier circuitry, step the
voltage to 120 AC and sell power to other proles who want to build
Singularitymobiles.

 

Second alternative: motherboards run on low voltage DC current.  Never mind
supplying AC, just supply 12 volt DC or AC power at enormous capacity so
that it can run the processors directly.

 

spike

 

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