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Posted by Iddy on 3/3/2010 3:16:55 AM
Yes this is true. One company National Grid whic bought out the Power company here is based in London that is interesting. Smart grid is a big seller. Problem... greed there is money to be made. SO the public is lured in.
Remote control, people are thrilled with the idea of leaving the office at 5 pm but before they leave the can get on the internet and set their hot hub temp. so it is bubbly and warm when they get home. Turn on the lights at home while on vacation in the bahamas. Yep this ones gonna be a hard one for sure. They will turn of power to whole areas for national security reasons.
It may be true that because man will not govern himslef he has to make a robot to do it for him. Look around I see robot traders, robot girlfreinds, robot pets. it is a growing field and the people love robots.Can you imagine the whole earth run by one giant roboting grid, all interconnected.
Posted by Juanito on 3/3/2010 4:13:59 AM
In order for our civilizations to thrive, we must have sufficient, if not abundant energy. And the more energy we have, the wealthier we are and the more freedoms we possess. Thus a policy to limit our energy consumptions, which is what monitoring implies, also implies curtailing our freedoms.
There are several other ways we can solve our energy problem. First, we can provide more energy. This can be achieved through a variety of new and proven technologies: geothermal, ocean currents, wind (on a much more individual and broader scale), new forms of nuclear reactors, solar, gas, coal, with a dash of the singular genius Tesla.
Second, we can employ new ideas. Buckminster Fuller comments in "Critical Path" by using maximum technology and minimal energy. He thought Iceland's geothermal energy could power the world via a world-wide grid. He envisioned very economical spherical houses and new social orders.
And as a surprise bonus, since we would live like millionaires in this system, populations would naturally decline as a result of this new prosperity.
Posted by Jores on 3/3/2010 6:50:51 AM
Thank you DB for the "heads up!". What is the citizenry supposed to do with that knowledge now? Contact our local political representative? You think they are answerable to us?
Posted by Beverlee on 3/3/2010 11:09:37 AM
In 1971 sci-fi writer Theordore Sturgeon published a short story called Brownshoes. The protagonist - "Mensch" - discovers an inexpensive energy generator that every individual could have in his home and car (no grid necessary). The plot-line involves how Mensch decides to release the invention to the public in a manner that circumvents the technocrats. He joins a church, becomes involved in the social network of his town, etc. He buys a small existing company and improves a mundane appliance, meanwhile patenting the essential methodology for the generator. Quietly, he secures the invention and then publishes it for anyone to copy. The underlying theme: by taking the understated non-threatening approach, he lives.
Posted by Patrick Wood on 3/3/2010 11:12:06 AM
This is from a reader who lives in Switzerland...
"In Aargau (Canton of Switzerland) where we live the power supplied to our apartment is restricted for several hours (late morning to early afternoon). We can use all electronic devices except the washing machine. How they do it, I don't know. But the washing machine cuts off if it was started just prior to a certain time and resumes working when the restricted time period is over.
This was totally freaky to us at first when we moved from Germany to Switzerland. Now Joy had to adjust her washing habits accordingly. Interestingly enough, there is an atomic power plant just up the road from us."We were not told of this when we moved here and a Swiss friend of ours who help us to move in didn't know about it either. But he lives in a different Canton."
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thanks. We'll look into it.
Posted by Lance E. Schultz on 3/3/2010 11:36:33 AM
I had the disfortune of attending a major US energy summit with Mr. Gingrich as its venerable keynote speaker who waxed endlessly about the absolute necessity for which to implement such draconian control measures.
The true origins for this archaic and despotic mindset reaches far beyond the 1930s back to the Age of Atlantis and the demonic principle that all men are created equal and an equal share are all men due. Both nihillistic concepts should be duly and wholly rejected for the very continued survival of man.
Posted by Gary J. Mallast on 3/3/2010 12:11:21 PM
"Smart Grid" and Technocracy would quickly break down for the same reasons, as enunciated in Austrian School theory, that all other forms of socialistic central planning break down. I don't care how elaborate the technology.
The fundamental "things" in economics are human choices and human valuations which are ordinal and qualitative psychological entities and relationships which cannot be measured. They can only quantified by free, peaceful exchanges against a monetary unit.Like all socialist schemes they suppose an ideal state of the market independent of the actual state of supply and demand. A self-contradictory notion.
Certainly there is a need for constant improvement in energy production as in all forms of production. If improved computerization helps make distribution more efficient fine and dandy. But that is by no means certain as was shown by the great Lake Erie black out a few years ago when a single overload in Ohio triggered a computerized shutdown of power systems all the way around Lake Erie.
At any rate, such upgrades are best left up to power company officials who have some idea what they are doing and not arrogant politicians and policy analysts.
There is no grass roots demand for or understanding of these proposals. If word gets out, through such publications as The Daily Bell, they will soon hit heavy seas.
Posted by Freaked Out on 3/3/2010 1:31:39 PM
Please read this article. This is very relevant to this power elite meme. This news needs to be spread. The funny thing is that I was going to submit this article to the Bell to see their insight into this.
marketoracle.co.uk/Article17568.html
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thanks. Great article. We've been writing pieces of it.
Posted by Antonio on 3/3/2010 11:53:24 PM
Gentlemen,Is the M. King Hubbert mentioned in the report the same man that came up with the Peak Oil theory? My hasty research indicates that he is, and this makes for a very interesting coincidence. Or, maybe not.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
We have noted that he is.
Posted by Antonio on 3/3/2010 11:57:43 PM
Gentlemen,If I had read a little further before commenting, I would have seen that my question was already answered. Very interesting article.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
You're welcome.
Posted by MetaCynic on 3/4/2010 12:52:37 AM
This remote control technology will most certainly morph into something wicked in the spirit of the notorious No Fly list. All sorts of enemies of the State will suddenly find some or even all of their power turned off. To have it restored, they will be charged an exorbitant fee and required to pay to attend State approved re-education classes designed to improve their attitudes. Something like a national ID can be used to implement NO lists of all kinds.
For example, every imaginable transaction can require permission from the government involving the scanning of one's ID card. People are already comfortable with such a procedure when scanning credit cards for authorization for purchases. There will be NO Shopping, NO Banking, NO Working, NO Renting, NO Gasoline - in short NO Living lists. With a few keystrokes, an anonymous bureaucrat can slowly starve the most unrepentant of enemies of the State. The Power Elite will then be in a position to enslave and rule us remotely without the need for messy, old fashioned arrests, beatings and jailings. This will be a police state with a friendly smile and no visible blood on its hands.
Posted by Adrian W on 3/4/2010 4:04:20 PM
Interesting. Start it off as a comedic soft sell....
The tune will change once they force their foot in the door no doubt.
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Reply from the Daily Bell:
That's how it seems to work. Thanks for the link.
Posted by Vicky on 3/4/2010 6:03:37 PM
The Smart Grid is just one of the neo-Technocratic control systems for the 21st Century. There are more revelations of the technocracy to come hopefully. August Review deserves more than kudos for this reporting. They deserve high honors.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Yes, do you think they will be nominated for a Pulitzer?
Posted by HighTechRedReck on 3/7/2010 12:25:57 PM
Another eye opening article....I am personally tired of these "Top Down" solutions to non-problems. I think "Top Down" is the sine qua non of a meme. After all are we not just idiots waiting for solutions from the brilliant elites?"
We the people" is a bottom up approach to life. Our founders had it right......I am going to be a delegate to the county republican convention in Midland Texas. I am not a cool-aid drinking republican. One has to start some where. I plan on bring up the "smart grid" initiative as some thing that must be opposed in the party platform. I am open to ideas of this....Thanks..
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thank you. You might ask Gov. Perry why he supported the transcontinental highway to Canada and Mexico while you're at it.
Posted by Avenist on 3/9/2010 7:56:09 AM
Of course when you exceed your allotment of resources you will have to buy credits from third world countries and pay the proto-NWG a transaction fee. Welcome to Egalatopia.
Posted by Rickeagle on 6/4/2010 2:36:44 AM
Watch out for the evil "telephone system" that is being foisted upon the American people who may not know that their phone calls may be tapped and information about their bowel and bladder habits may be found out!
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