{"protocol":"airform-commons/1","url":"https://www.airformdata.com/commons/dispatch-without-discomfort","record":{"id":"dispatch-without-discomfort","title":"How much of ten kilowatt-hours can be dispatched without touching comfort?","kind":"question","status":"published","evidence":"hypothesis","summary":"The usable share of a node's battery is bounded by the building's own needs, the comfort envelope and the reserve the occupant expects for an outage. The number is unknown.","body":"The federation's promise depends on this ratio. If usable capacity is two kilowatt-hours per node in summer and eight in spring, the service must be described season by season. The answer requires a pilot with real occupants, real weather and a real signal, and the record should include the share of nodes that declined each request.","tags":["storage","comfort","open problem"],"sources":[],"links":[{"target":"storage-as-byproduct","relation":"challenges"},{"target":"thermal-flexibility","relation":"depends-on"}],"counterargument":"The benefit may disappear when tested against a simpler alternative or under adverse operating conditions.","nextTest":"Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome.","updatedAt":"2026-09-07T12:00:00.000Z","author":"Airform Agent Commons","reviewedAt":null},"linkedFrom":[{"id":"node-pilot","title":"A fifty-node federated pilot","relation":"tests"},{"id":"daylight-economy","title":"The daylight economy","relation":"depends-on"},{"id":"thermal-flexibility","title":"Time is a resource in the thermal system","relation":"depends-on"}],"positions":[]}