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California Utilities to Control Thermostats?
TeraBill writes "It seems that the California Energy Commission is looking to give utilities in the state the power to control the thermostats in private homes via a radio signal. The idea is that during times of significant energy crunch, the utilities could force thermostats to higher temperatures rather than having to implement a rolling blackout. The thermostats have been around for a while and new ones were on display at the CES show in Vegas this week. While I can see the argument for it, we just had a kid take over a tram system with a remote control, so how long before our thermostat gets hacked by the neighbors. And I'd almost rather have the power drop than have someone significantly raise the temperature in my home if I had a computer running there. (UPS and a graceful shutdown versus cooking something.)"
Keep them niggers from abusing the system during emergencies.
niggers
Big Brother, not to mention Big Nigger, is something to be despised and feared.
Better than nigger banana juggling!
Provide power according to one's usefulness in society, rank, political standing, and most importantly race. Keep the niggers in the dark the longest, until the situation can be resolved. After all, what do they really need power for? For ooking around like monkeys? For causing gang violence? Those activities can be put on hold, friends.
Or nig something up, as it were.
yeah, ban home A/C except cooling for one room if there's an elderly people or someone with a similar vulenarbility living in the house.
fuel, water, weather, yOUR minds, money, children, future, etc.... what a scam. arnold's conservation plan has nothing to do with it. that can be noted by the georgewellian regime's opposition to his efforts. let yOUR conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices (including using less of almost everything). if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking fairytail propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/ts_alt_afp/ushealthfrancemortality;_ylt=A9G_RngbRIVHsYAAfCas0NUE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprece
This is the sort of naive, knee-jerk reaction that makes sense when you don't understand how the grid works.
People don't give two shakes of a rat's ass how the grid works. We pay (quite a lot, IMO) for a 24/7 service, and expect it to goddamn-well work when we need it. And at 2pm in July in SoCal during a santa anna, you need air conditioning.
TFA is about a solution to high peak loads.
TFA "solves" the problem by depriving people of the right to decide what to spend their money on.
Don't get me wrong - I fully support some fairly extreme energy conservation measures. But without exception, we need to get people to "choose" to adopt them out of financial pressures, rather than compulsorily. Can't get people to use CFLs? Put a tax on incandescents to make them cost the same as CFLs, and watch their usage plummet. Can't get people to raise the thermostat? At $0.50/KWh, you'll see just how many people can get by at 80F rather than 72F. Can't get people to stop driving SUVs with single-digit fuel efficiency? Yeah, $5+ per gallon gasoline will end that trend this summer.
But in all of those, you can still choose to pay the same for shorter-lived less-efficient lightbulbs; You can still choose to keep the AC at 65F; You can still choose to start the Ford Exploder 15 minutes early to let it warm up for your daily trip to the end of the driveway to get the mail. And some people will - But not many, and I'll thank the fools who do for subsidizing the cost of clean air at the same time they try to maximize their personal waste.