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That's a great point. I guess the question to test your assertion is whether distributed electricity generation and storage is the cash cow AWS is. AWS took long lead time, high cost, high risk tasks and made them like ordering Chinese food.

End of the day, even with all they have achieved, the whole machine blows up once the hype train pulls to a halt.




> took long lead time, high cost, high risk tasks and made them like ordering Chinese food.

Come to think of it, that almost sounds like what Tessa is beginning to achieve with large scale electrical storage. [1]

[1]: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/business/energy-enviro...




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