Smart Meters, What Are Smart Meters

Smart Meters are central planning electricity rationing devices.

During the 2008 election campaign Obama said this:Are the Smart Meters that the “stimulus bill’ is going to put into place going to report our energy consumption to the government? Yes, you know it is. And ration it? Yes you know it will.

If the government starts monitoring our energy consumption, shortly the government will be dictating to us how much energy we can use. From the porkulus bill signing teleprompter session:

In the process, we will transform the way we use energy. Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that dates back to Thomas Edison, a grid that can’t support the demands of clean energy. This means we’re using 19th- and 20th-century technologies to battle 21st-century problems like climate change and energy security.

It also means that places like North Dakota can produce a lot of wind energy but can’t deliver it to communities that want it, leading to a gap between how much clean energy we are using and how much we could be using

.What it actually means is way to expensive, electricity produced by wind generators, which couldn't exist unless there were massive government subsidies, will supply what was once abundant and cheap electricity generated from coal and nuclear sources will be directed at the most expensive electricity for America. And it's now an investment, when you do things that are ridiculous and inordinately expensive for what it returns. Wind power has got to be at the top of that list, unreliably costly, and usually far from nowhere so transmission losses are highest.

The investment we are making today will create a newer, smarter electric grid that will allow for the broader use of alternative energy. We will build on the work that’s being done in places like Boulder, Colorado, a community that is on pace to be the world’s first Smart Grid city. This investment will place Smart Meters in homes to make our energy bills lower, make outages less likely and make it easier to use clean energy.

It’s an investment that will save taxpayers over $1 billion by slashing energy costs in our federal buildings by 25 percent and save working families hundreds of dollars a year on their energy bills by weatherizing over 1 million homes. And it’s an investment that takes the important first step towards a nationwide transmission superhighway that will connect our cities to the windy plains of the Dakotas and the sunny deserts of the Southwest.

This is a tiny bit sophomoric for even the Obama voter to take in. Surly they must know that today's grid uses banks of computers, massive numbers of switches and relays, to balance and control the flow of electricity through the grid. Today's grid and the flow of electricity over it is nothing like what was available in Edison's time. They do know this, don't they.

On second thought, they buy the global warming hoax, so probably not.

Welcome to the error of Obama and electricity rationing.