Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Megawatt.fun: The Arbitrage Floor Is Thin
An energy-tooling suite built around ERCOT battery dispatch, live settlement prices, and a tracker for humanity’s position on the Kardashev scale.
Why it surfacedIts day-ahead planner uses real ERCOT prices and refuses to cycle batteries when the spread cannot cover round-trip losses. The site also publishes its assumptions, source code, tests, and a deliberately sobering result: on the cited mild August day, one 25 kWh battery clears only $0.43 in energy-only arbitrage.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.