Twinkle 06 / Power bills
Power bill up. Lights off.
I'm saving power by sitting in the dark, which makes it harder to read the bill telling me I'm saving fuck-all.
A 15–60 second vertical Twinkle, filmed or AI-generated, with the sound of urine tinkling in the background. Start with the gripe, land the joke, then point to the fair-go fix.
Brainstorming scenario
Power bills: community microgrids and an open energy future
A microgrid joins local generation, storage and demand. Load shifting saves or moves energy use to a better time. Legal tools, shared ownership and efficiency could make the benefit reach households rather than disappear into another complicated contract.
Short video script
I'm saving power by sitting in the dark, which makes it harder to read the bill telling me I'm saving fuck-all. A microgrid joins local generation, storage and demand. Load shifting saves or moves energy use to a better time. Legal tools, shared ownership and efficiency could make the benefit reach households rather than disappear into another complicated contract. Explore the proposal and connected work below.
Explore the connected work
- Queens: clean-power enterprise library — Energy and storage research ideas with links to individual enterprise concepts and source material. Source repository
- Luke’s Relevance: Australian law — The source-led method for following legal threads and understanding how laws touch an ordinary life. Source repository
- Australian Legal Engine — Offline code that parses, indexes and retrieves quoted statutory provisions with source citations. It does not decide a legal case. Source repository
- Community wealth and mutuals — How community-held assets and retained returns could support mutual protection and useful long-term investment. Source repository