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Arizona Trialing System That Lets Utility System Control Home A/Cs
AzTechGuy writes "Arizona Public Service Co., Arizona's largest power company, is implementing a test program that would put customers' thermostats under their control to help balance power needs during critical peak usage times. APS will be able to remote control the customers' thermostats to control power draw from their A/C when there is a critical power transmission issue on the grid. Customers will be able to override these settings if they desire."
Yep... you guessed it.
When are states going to realize that allowing draconian crap like this DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY AND LOWERS YOUR STATE
'S OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY! Even worse.... SMART PEOPLE MOVE AWAY!
Idiots.
What exactly are your enormous privacy concerns? This already exists here in toronto. This works well. The truth is, when they raise the temperature in your ac for a period of time, you don't notice it because the temperature change in your home is not instantaneous. By the time you notice the small change, if you do at all, it'll be back to your original setting.
The blurb makes it sound sinister IMo with stuff like "under their control". They're just trying to control the peaks so everyone has power.
You may not notice it in Toronto where the high is 75, but where I'm at in Texas, it will be noticed when the LOW is 95!
Didn't I just read about 300 Slashdotters commenting that AGW was NOT about governments wanting to take more power. Now they are telling me what the temperature is in my home. Next they will tell me how much salt I can have on my food. What's after that?
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Kay, we'll keep the spent fissionable material in your house. Sound good?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
read the fucking article, limp dick. it's a voluntary program. stop bitching like a 4 year old girl.
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what excuse do you have for mouthing off even though you obviously didn't bother to read the article? hopefully your ass gets modded down for the simple fact that the entire premise of your post is wrong. it's fucking WRONG and you're an asshole, asshole. an eight year old retard could have glanced at this article and seen what kind of total fucking asshat you are.