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"Hey, how are you?"
"Good, how are you?"
"Nice to meet you."
"Good to meet you too."
Aaron Wilkes is a train driver who lives in a tiny village
about an hour and a half outside of London in a home built in the 1960s.
"A 1960s home with an air traffic control style energy system."
An air traffic control style energy system.
What Aaron's describing is the way he monitors and trades a hot commodity from his house: his own electricity.
Aaron is part of a growing number of vibe-coding energy traders,
people who produce energy at home using solar panels,
store that energy using batteries,
and then figure out when to use it and when to sell it back to the grid.
Aaron does it all using that air traffic control system,
a piece of software on his tablet that shows a series of circles,
kind of like those activity rings on an Apple Watch.
"The idea of this was to show my partner what's going on right now"
"and then what's going to happen in the future, so each ring represents something different."