The National Grid Is Dead. Here's What Replaces It. 👉 Grab your free seat to the 2-Day AI Mastermind: https://bit.ly/OutskillUndecidedMF 🔐 100% Discount for the first 1000 people 💥 Dive deep into AI and Learn Automations, Build AI Agents, Make videos & images – all for free! 🎁 Bonuses worth $5100+ if you join and attend. In April 2025, most of Spain and Portugal went dark. A cascading failure knocked out the Iberian peninsula's grid in seconds. Just four years earlier, Texas came within 4 minutes and 37 seconds of its own total collapse. Not a temporary blackout. A full shutdown. What engineers call a "black start," a process that could take days to weeks to recover from. Not to mention all of the people that died as a result. According to the Department of Energy, 70 percent of US transmission lines are over 25 years old. We're running 21st century lives on a mid-20th century grid. But back in 1997, energy consultant Karl Rábago wrote a blueprint for a radically different grid. His model? The internet. Seriously. And no, I'm not talking about today's internet, which is just five billionaires in a trench coat. I'm talking about the '90s internet. Decentralized. Collaborative. And really, really cool. So how would the internet stop a blackout? And why did the guy who figured it out get ignored for 30 years? But first, we need to understand what went so wrong.

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00:00 - Intro

02:52 - But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

05:40 - Internetification

08:22 - The 30-Year Blueprint

11:24 - Broadband Jesus Goes Electric

13:52 - But Here's the Problem

15:22 - Here's My Take

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What I Got Wrong Building My Net Zero Home. Go to https://surfshark.com/undecided or use code UNDECIDED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! I have some regrets. A few years ago, I set out to build my dream net zero energy home. I've been living here for a little over two years now, and so far, I’ve been more than satisfied. I have enough solar and battery storage to balance out all of my annual energy use. A highly efficient geothermal heating and cooling system supplies me with hot water for almost no money. And this is the most comfortable and energy efficient home I've ever lived in. Overall, I absolutely love this house. But even the best laid plans have issues, and mine were no different. If you want to avoid expensive mistakes, learn what actually works in a net zero home, or just see what tech lived up to the hype, there might be some lessons you can learn from the choices I made … and the ones that I didn't make.

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro

01:02 - The Hot Water Situation

03:25 - The Infrastructure I Skipped

06:27 - The ERV Problem

08:40 - Smart Panels

10:19 - The Thermal Envelope Decision

11:46 - Solar Expansion

14:24 - Future-Proofing: Conduit Everywhere