Yeah just had a power engineer and physicist out for lunch and batteries are the answer (according to them)

Funny I'm a physicist and worked as a power grid quant.

Batteries aren't the answer.

This battle of giants is so interesting I can't wait for the next information-filled reply to teach me something new about the batteries vs no batteries battle.

I love how both of you are arguing about what the solution is, yet the problem isn't even clearly defined yet :P

Sure, let me help.

Let P = batteries;

If (P == NP) then both are the answer.

Damn, I should send them a bill for the lunch then!

Curious to hear your take on what the answer is?

Nuclear power, the answer hasn't changed since the 60s.

Future solutions nothwithstanding, the metaphor does not make sense according to the reality of many people as of today. Many live in locales where the Grid has made the grid capacity into the consumers’ problem via time-of-use pricing and adjusting pricing according to some max-use scheme. It is absolutely not just something you set and forget if you have to worry about not using the stove at the same time as you use the AC.

But this seems apropos in a roundabout way since LLMs cost a lot of energy.