The Internet of Energy is a fanciful dream

Imagine if someone stated that there was a company losing money and asked what can be done about it.  Then someone else came up with an answer and said: “Oh, that is easy; all you have to do is reduce costs until the company makes a profit.”  Then everyone applauds the wise answer, and nobody thinks to ask: "How do you reduce the costs?" This illustration is so silly that nobody with an iota of intelligence would take such a ‘solution’ seriously. But, sadly, in engineering and technology, this type of thing happens all the time. There are so many individuals who came up with really foolish technology ‘solutions.’  This attitude is extremely irresponsible. We technical guys become highly irritated by this, since it is us who have to fix up the mess afterwards.