>> If your meter knew the rate, it just needs to report a cost to the power company
> How is that any different than reporting usage? It still has to report back some number.
If the meter knew the price each hour of the day, it could accumulate the usage in dollars rather than kWh, and report the dollars once a day or even once a month. Nobody would know whether you ran the heater at 3pm or 9pm.
Integrate dollars at the meter or at the central office.
Personally, if I were the utility, I'd try to get the kWh and not the $ so I can check the calculations, not be responsible for missing price updates, help customers know why their bill is so high, understand statistics of customer use to be better able to forecast usage and bid forecasted load into the market. Also, be able to offer "demand management" services such as paying you to let the utility reduce your usage during high-priced hours.
AND they do the same looking at various places on the door, so they see the "distance map" image from various perspectives. This makes it more analogous to the door as a mirror, just as you'd look at various points on a mirror and see a reflected scene from the point of view of that spot on the mirror.
For flat-panel displays, black-on-white (or w/b) lets you use sub-pixel resolution, as in ClearType http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
This would seem better than some other color where you couldn't use the little RGB subpixels as effectively.
A (thin) coating of oil on the surface of the water would reduce evaporation and smooth the water, making the hurricane turn away from the oil (since it goes faster over smooth water.) Who knows if it works at the scale desired, but it may be no worse than spreading "black particles from the manufacture of tires!"
An experiment on this topic was done in 1891 by Rear Admiral Cavelier de Cuverville from a ship in a cyclone.
She has recently highlighted her "degrees" in speeches even in the past year. It was as if she were ASKING to be caught. The idea that "the only lie was 28 years ago and I just didn't have the courage to correct it" is misleading.
If we have fast quality Wi-Fi everywhere in the city, you can use an IP-based phone everywhere. There's no need for other phones. No need for DSL for Internet access. This would be a terrible thing for the phone companies, and it would probably spread rapidly if it works in one place and the economics work for that city. Note also the parallel with Municipal-owned Public Power which is usually much cheaper than Investor Owned Utility power. We're already used to municipal roads, water, and sewer.
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> How is that any different than reporting usage? It still has to report back some number.
If the meter knew the price each hour of the day, it could accumulate the usage in dollars rather than kWh, and report the dollars once a day or even once a month. Nobody would know whether you ran the heater at 3pm or 9pm.
Integrate dollars at the meter or at the central office.
Personally, if I were the utility, I'd try to get the kWh and not the $ so I can check the calculations, not be responsible for missing price updates, help customers know why their bill is so high, understand statistics of customer use to be better able to forecast usage and bid forecasted load into the market. Also, be able to offer "demand management" services such as paying you to let the utility reduce your usage during high-priced hours.
AND they do the same looking at various places on the door, so they see the "distance map" image from various perspectives. This makes it more analogous to the door as a mirror, just as you'd look at various points on a mirror and see a reflected scene from the point of view of that spot on the mirror.
For flat-panel displays, black-on-white (or w/b) lets you use sub-pixel resolution, as in ClearType http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType This would seem better than some other color where you couldn't use the little RGB subpixels as effectively.
A (thin) coating of oil on the surface of the water would reduce evaporation and smooth the water, making the hurricane turn away from the oil (since it goes faster over smooth water.) Who knows if it works at the scale desired, but it may be no worse than spreading "black particles from the manufacture of tires!" An experiment on this topic was done in 1891 by Rear Admiral Cavelier de Cuverville from a ship in a cyclone.
She has recently highlighted her "degrees" in speeches even in the past year. It was as if she were ASKING to be caught. The idea that "the only lie was 28 years ago and I just didn't have the courage to correct it" is misleading.
If we have fast quality Wi-Fi everywhere in the city, you can use an IP-based phone everywhere. There's no need for other phones. No need for DSL for Internet access. This would be a terrible thing for the phone companies, and it would probably spread rapidly if it works in one place and the economics work for that city. Note also the parallel with Municipal-owned Public Power which is usually much cheaper than Investor Owned Utility power. We're already used to municipal roads, water, and sewer.