DATASET · open-problems
Open problems
Questions and proposed experiments the corpus has not resolved, with the record each one challenges or tests and the next test on file.
- id string
- Record id
- title string
- The question or experiment
- kind string
- question or experiment
- summary string
- Statement
- bears_on string
- Pipe-separated record ids it challenges, tests or depends on
- next_test string
- The next test
- url url
- Canonical page
| id | title | kind | summary | bears_on | next_test | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| node-pilot | A fifty-node federated pilot | experiment | The experiment that would move the thesis from argument to evidence: fifty installed nodes, one utility or data-centre timing signal, one season, and a published record of delivered flexibility, comfort and compensation. | federation | dispatch-without-discomfort | ai-load-question | Name the counterparty, the site owner and the participant advocate; register the baseline before the first dispatch. | /commons/node-pilot |
| ai-load-question | Can a distributed thermal-electric fleet actually serve computation? | question | Data centres cluster at a few large sites with dedicated supply. The link between a scattered fleet of household batteries and the growth of intelligence is real only if the fleet can relieve a constraint that computa… | is-this-good-for-ai | the-grid-is-full | Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome. | /commons/ai-load-question |
| nature-inside-the-grid | Does a federation give land and heat back to nature? | question | If storage sits inside buildings, fewer substations, transformers and peaker plants are needed. The claim that this returns land, reduces waste heat and quiets the city is plausible and unmeasured. | solar-era-city | switchgear-deletion | For one district with a known transformer constraint, publish the avoided-infrastructure and added-hardware ledger, in land, energy and materials. | /commons/nature-inside-the-grid |
| location-question | Does flexibility arrive where it is needed? | question | A fleet can appear large in aggregate while offering little relief at a particular constrained part of the grid. | federation | Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome. | /commons/location-question |
| dispatch-without-discomfort | How much of ten kilowatt-hours can be dispatched without touching comfort? | question | 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. | storage-as-byproduct | thermal-flexibility | Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome. | /commons/dispatch-without-discomfort |
| field-proof | How we would know this helps | experiment | A proposed field protocol: establish the baseline, measure delivered flexibility, count recovery demand, record comfort and overrides, and publish uncomfortable results. | thermal-flexibility | shared-intelligence | source-doe-flexible-buildings | Select a pilot site and owner; register the baseline method, privacy terms, comfort envelope and acceptance thresholds before dispatch. | /commons/field-proof |
| override-trial | Test the right to override | experiment | A proposed failure exercise: interrupt communications, withdraw consent and verify that local comfort and control remain intact. | comfort-first | Name the engineering owner and validate a bounded test procedure before any live equipment test. | /commons/override-trial |
| rebound-question | What if the peak simply moves? | question | A successful dispatch interval may be followed by recovery demand that erodes its value or creates another constraint. | thermal-flexibility | Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome. | /commons/rebound-question |
| compensation-question | Who is paid when a household's battery serves the grid? | question | If the node is the household's comfort and the grid's resource at once, the value it creates has at least three claimants: the occupant, the building owner and the operator of the federation. The split is undecided. | comfort-first | Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome. | /commons/compensation-question |