I like your take on things with this thread.

*S&F*

Did you really believe this guy when he said he's creating more jobs? As we all watch the unemployment rise weekly?

The only jobs liberals create are for the gov't. Period.

Smart grid.

Translation-the US taxpayer pays for upgrades to the system so power companies can charge you more.

Only in the US can you make your customer pay for company improvements.

Do you have any info on the GE Obama connection.

And are they making the new tech for these meters. Because the initial funding seems to be going to a bunch of different versions to test.


I wonder how he is connected with this group:

Battelle Memorial Institute

They have their fingers in everything and make 8.5 billion a year and are a non profit!

I want to create me one of those?

Your tax dollars at work!!!

Why are the meter readers not protesting.

Someone needs to roganize them.

Then again they probably knew this was coming.

They should have installed communication meters long ago.

I am just upset that my tax dollars are buying new equipment for the power company under the lie they are creating more jobs when it will cost jobs.

They lie!

It is hard to believe more poeple are not upset about this.

People just don't read between the lines. They hear the smart grid si for connecting green energy to it and automatically think it is a good thing.

This will cost jobs and waste our tax payer dollars on something the power comapnies whould be doing for themselves.

Now I hear about the 350 milion for clean coal. Make the greedy power companies buy their own equipment by mandating it.

Same thing with buying computers for the trillion dallar medical industry. Hello they can afford their own cumputers, mandate it.

No, the smart grid has been talked about for decades, because the current method used across most of the world is ridiculously slow to adapt to changes. If rates of power production vary across two ends of a stretch of grid, resulting in a net need in one end, and a net surplus at another, it is currently not possible to rearrange the transfer of electricity, meaning power is simply lost. Not to mention the leakage across the lines. With renewable energy, such as solar, wind, or tidal, production levels fluctuate constantly throughout the day. So does demand. And so, the current grid, in its ages-old stupidity, slings around power in the most inefficient way, wasting most of the savings we make by using these more sustainable, cleaner energy sources.

Sure, the electricity company might have to read your meter, but if you think that is the reason why smart grids are being planned around the world, you are sorely mistaken, ignorant of the subject, or just straight-up paranoid.

It'll end up being cheaper for everyone if we don't waste so much electricity, and can use the electricity we have more efficiently.