Damn, now you've made me want to dig up the story of Germany's first online rail journey planner as written by its creator: it was in the 90's, before Deutsche Bahn had an online presence, but they had the journey information on CD-ROM. The guy took the data from the CD-ROM and created a tool that would return journeys between 2 stations if you queried it. And how does the query work? You'd e-mail his uni address, his "server" (in reality a PC in the corner of his room) would fetch emails every 5 minutes, process the queries and e-mailed back the results.
Sadly Google and DDG are useless now, the last time I wanted to find this story it took a lotttt of time.
1. Yeah I stick primarily to hospitality and consumer companies (B2C and B2B2C) with a large amount of tech debt; because they're so mired in keeping their current systems alive, they don't have time to innovate, so thats where I come in.
2. Word of mouth primarily. When they look at what I cost them vs. what the big consultancies – or even the midsize 'innovation consultancies' like Frog or IDEO cost, it's a no-brainer. I just blend basic financial rigor with a bit of visionary thinking and competitive research, and set my clients up for the win when they go ask for permission to go from idea to prototype to MVP to pilot.
It lets you play with combinations of solar, wind, batteries, and hydrogen storage, and optimize for a minimum cost system that can provide "synthetic baseload" for an entire year for a region given high cadence historical climate data.
When I apply that to the US, for example, the storage needed is typically maybe 6 hours of batteries and a week or so of hydrogen. To put that last number in perspective: there is a salt formation in Delta, Utah that could supply enough hydrogen storage capacity to power the entire US for 30 hours.
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Forget the pwn how do I do this
Also, HN used to think this was cool now there are 20 posts blaming the hacker…