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- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6They keep offering me a massive $25 to let them turn my AC on and off when they feel like it.
nope. - xero69, on 03/19/2009, -2/+7Good news... unless it's your job to read the electric meters each month! Still glad to see AT&T found a new revenue stream that will also help us use electricity more efficiently in the future. Can't wait to get appliances that can wait and draw the most power outside of peak hour$. One more step towards reducing our dependence on foreign energy sources.
- bigteebo, on 03/19/2009, -0/+4Great, now they will know if our refrigerator really is running. There goes that prank call meme.
- darkciti2, on 03/19/2009, -0/+3The more I think about it, I don't want the utility company to have bilateral communication via a "high-voltage" protocol to my AC devices.
I'm trying to get AWAY from the utility company, not more in bed with them. Unless I have oversight on my usage and personal audit capability, I'm going to say, "No thanks".
My meter is one of these digital meters and I wonder if the power that is drawn by the meter is added to my bill, or if my electric co. eats that as the cost of doing business. - thcobbs, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2they eat it. The power for the meter is drawn before the current loops.
- AntiGravityHero, on 03/19/2009, -1/+3So now the NSA will know how many kilowatt-hours I use in a given time period in addition to everything I do online and via telephone. Yay.
- kgerm, on 03/19/2009, -1/+2sounds like you should live off the grid if your that worried any way.
- darkciti2, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1I'd like to have intelligent breakers that use bluetooth to communicate how much power is flowing through them.
Something akin to a wireless Kill-a-watt at the breaker level. The granularity would help me find out which rooms / areas of my home are drawing the most power. I'm trying to convert to solar and it would be nice to have data at the 'zone' or 'breaker' level so I can build out accordingly. - inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1Homeland Security will be pissed... they want meter readers to spy on us.
- ohreilly, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1I despair for Digg, I really do.
Especially when AntiGravityHero is being dugg up. - colonelxc, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1Hooray, more protocols to crack.
- thcobbs, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1That would be fun, eh?
- AntiGravityHero, on 03/23/2009, -0/+0I was being facetious, but obviously there was no way for you to know that so instead you resort to acting like a ***** jackass.
- greenmeany, on 03/22/2009, -0/+0My brother-in-law is an electrical engineer with NASA and his take is that all of the new ideas for smartgrids are inferior to what we currently have.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -4/+3That is good news!
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