Progress: Canadian Senate Listens to Global Warming Skeptics
An excellent point. The price, of electricity, or any continuously supplied commodity must include a location, acceptable delivery condition, and some agreed reliability standard, typically at a switch, or meter on the wall. The smart grid is installing, at enormous cost, meters which give the utility the unilateral ability to shut off appliances in your home. The appliance will cost a great deal more for the internal circuitry. You have no say, and must pay for this implicit changed agreement. This provides controlled outages, appliance by appliance, instead of district by district. It forestalls building power plants, the main objective.
This allows the same politician who rails against the power plant, from standing against the fury of voters who live in black out conditions. It is a far lower quality of service at a higher price. Is this smart? Or duplicitous?
