Here's the report by the National Institute For Science, Law and Public Policy-- at GettingSmarterAboutTheSmartGrid.org.
Look what Pacific Grinch & Electric gave several customers for Christmas last year when they tried to exchange their "smart" meters for analog meters.(click link)
Over three billion U.S. taxpayer dollars kept factories humming while the meters were being manufactured. Problem is, those factories weren't necessarily in the United States, according to a recent report linked at the bottom of this page. "Stimulus"---uh, OK.
I've written elsewhere on this blog about the warnings from health experts about these meters. What's really astounding is the coercion of customers by utilities to accept this health hazard in their homes. Not the least astounding is the assertion that I see over and over again: "The power company owns the meters and you need to do what they say." Really? Even if it's making me ill?
As "StopSmartMeters.org" said:
How can utilities claim that ‘smart’ meter health impacts are “psychosomatic” when many of the people who report such symptoms never knew that ‘smart’ meters pose a health risk, or even that they had one on the side of their home?
However, there are people out there with good ideas, like the following.
I found the following wisdom through a random comment.
Source: Squareandc.net
My design principles:
1. Human’s are endo-skeletal creatures. Our world (products) are increasingly exo- skeletal. Thus, we cannot interface smoothly with out own designs.
2. All good design is functionally and schematically fractal.
3. We persist in designing for first order effects (slap-ouch) whileeithergnoring or damping higher order causes and effects.
4. Two of the greatest technical minds of the last 2-3 centuries, Nikolai Tesla and Viktor Schauberger worked in the space of harmonies and resonance. Tesla had intuitively mastered electromagnetic resonance and Schauberger had done likewise for bio-mechanical resonance. Buckminster Fuller was the one who brought the subtle idea of a mechanical matrix into the picture. He coined tensegrity as the balance of opposing tensions. When evolved into tension which I believe visible (measurable tension is always a subset of, you get torsional integrity. These are the three cornerstones of my design philosophy:
• Design for the endo-skeletal creature
• Harness harmonics
• Torsional Integrity
• The visible universe, fractally speaking is mechanically centripetal forgrowth and centrifugal for dissolution. Our designed world is entirelycentrifugal for deceptive growth (deceptive because the entire lifecycle is never taken into account) and only occasionally positively centripetal.
• All designs should embody relaxed tension.
• We are lopsided in our expenditure and focus if we study the current technology adoption curve. Far too many technologies get buried in the dusty, un-evolved, while we raise to spend money on user interface design. The missed point is that the root is weakly developed, you will never get a big tree.
• The exact same argument as above, when it comes to product life-cycle spending far too little in code development and far too much on market development. It looks like as a technological people, our Souk mentality has reached critical mass.
• We have to contort to our designs, whereas, our designs should mould to us.
• The magic is in designing for second and higher order effects of two dis-similar planes / waves meeting. Call it, ripple effect design.
The comment came from this post on Zerohedge.com: US Power Grid Vulnerable To Just About Everything
One key problem is theoretically a simple one to resolve: a lack of spare parts. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the grid is particularly vulnerable because it is spread out across hundreds of miles with key equipment not sufficiently guarded or antiquated and unable to prevent outages from cascading.
We are talking about some 170,000 miles of voltage transmission line miles fed by 2,100 high-voltage transformers delivering power to 125 million households.
"We could easily be without power across a multistate region for many weeks or months, because we don't have many spare transformers,” according to the Academy.
High-voltage transformers are vulnerable both from within and from outside the substations in which they are housed. Complicating matters, these transformers are huge and difficult to remove. They are also difficult to replace, as they are custom built primarily outside the US. So what is the solution? Perhaps, says the Academy, to design smaller portable transformers that could be used temporarily in an emergency situation.
Why was the Academy’s 2007 report only just declassified? Well, its authors were worried that it would be tantamount to providing terrorists with a detailed recipe for attacking and destabilizing America, or perhaps for starting a revolution.
I found the Zerohedge piece by way of this Greentechmedia.com piece: Was Smart Grid Funding Mis-Spent?
A recent report from the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy came with a provocative press release title: “Smart Grid Funding Misspent on Obsolete Technologies.”
The press release got plenty of attention from the utility and smart grid news circles, but it’s tough to tell if any of those actually read the report, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid,” written by Timothy Schoechle, a consultant in computer engineering and standardization and former faculty member of the University of Colorado's College of Engineering and Applied Science.
The report primarily takes aim at smart meters, which got the lion share of stimulus funding. Schoechle raises many questions and concerns that many others in the industry have identified, including the value of smart meters (although he also does not acknowledge their value when connected to more end-to-end smart grid projects, as many others do); the question of data privacy; and the issue of whether the meters, in and of themselves, will save consumers money.
Here's the report at GettingSmarterAboutTheSmartGrid.org.
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