They ARE a lot cheaper than actually building more power plants. What with all the government permits and lawsuits that takes time, money, effort.
A "Smart" grid is much simpler, and can make them just as much money. Tom Frank On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:49 PM, J. Forster wrote: > IMO, smart meters are a greased, very slippery, slope toward power > rationing or fines for "overconsumption" > > YMMV, > > -John > > ================ > > >> Will & Bill, > > [snip] > >> Centerpoint Energy has reached the epitome of laziness and is converting >> everyone over to "smart meters" so people can better >> monitor their usage... In reality it does nothing more than offer >> real-time monitoring for the power company, and they no longer >> have a use for meter-readers... _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
