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Spare the Air and Smart Meters

the south half of sonoma, and then santa clara, marin, napa, contra costa, sf, san mateo, and the west half of solano. or as the site saysThe District's jurisdiction encompasses all of seven counties - Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Napa, and portions of two others - southwestern Solano and southern Sonoma.

I just want to repeat, this is a law enacted by and written by non elected officials. there was NO legislative proccess in the creation of this law
 
It just seems silly-I have a very modern wood stove-it theoretically runs about 70% efficient, EPA certified, etc etc.

Runs cleaner than my car, but only one of those can't be run on certain days.
 
Plus we have red-sticker dirt bikes that can't be operated for half the year due to emissions, yet down the hill on some freeway there's tens of thousands of cars stuck in stop-and-go traffic, go figure.
 
PG&E can already trip power any time they want. Dropping power at the meter level is child's play.
 
On the bright side, there's plenty of cheap modules available for the ISM bands, making it possible for you too to develop electronic countermeasures to your smart meter...

:laughing
 
Counter measures on your meter mean jack when there is SCADA on the transmission and distribution levels. :p
 
or we can do this Iranian style. Blow the whole band out of the water for an entire area with a narrowband jammer. When two city blocks stop reporting in, do the meters fail to a shutdown condition? Imagine the litigation that would cause.....

or even simpler, blitz the reception points and take most of the system offline.

god I love wireless..it's so "secure".

Marlowe said:
Conveniently I can directly inject that upstream.

:laughing
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Ohh, they just queue data to submit later, but if your goal is to keep the 16 year old down the street from turning your power on and off so he can throw power meter raves, it's all good.
 
how much data can they hold?

the potential for amusing and lightly disrupting mayhem shouldn't go uninvestigated. :)

So you're saying it's possible for me to turn large swaths of San Jose into my own personal optical communications device for summoning ET's? :)


Marlowe said:
Ohh, they just queue data to submit later, but if your goal is to keep the 16 year old down the street from turning your power on and off so he can throw power meter raves, it's all good.
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They only need to hold ONE figure... current count.

They store more than that, but believe me, they don't have to store every interval to ensure you get billed for everything you used.

:laughing
 
postcholo said:
well, the dude does call himself nebulous.

anyway don't you get it? it's a conspiracy. the government [aka pg&e] is trying to control our minds through the so called "smart" meters and they want a minimal amount of smoke in the air because that interferes with the brain control signals.
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:laughing
:thumbup +1


Anyway, tomorrow has been declared a Spare The Air day in the Bay Area. It's probably the government--the Air District calls 5th Alert for smog tomorrow 8/8. If you like pollution tomorrow's your day!!!
 
If you like CARB telling you when you can use your fireplace and you like PG&E having remote access to turn off your electricity.

:twofinger


AbsolutEnduser said:
:laughing
:thumbup +1


Anyway, tomorrow has been declared a Spare The Air day in the Bay Area. It's probably the government--the Air District calls 5th Alert for smog tomorrow 8/8. If you like pollution tomorrow's your day!!!
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Always entertaining listening to people with strong opinions on things they don’t understand :laughing

Also kind of ironic to hear people bitching about CARB in the context of wildfires that are arguably influenced by climate change (although that might have been sarcasm)
 
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mlm said:
Always entertaining listening to people with strong opinions on things they don’t understand :laughing

Also kind of ironic to hear people bitching about CARB in the context of wildfires that are arguably influenced by climate change (although that might have been sarcasm)
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No, it's because we're letting water run to the Pacific Ocean.
 
Spare the Air day extended to tmro, Thursday, too... probably b/c of the fires as well. (as mentioned in the article above).

nebulous said:
If you like CARB telling you when you can use your fireplace
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I have no problem with "CARB" telling me when not to use my fireplace since it does harm to others. :flag What happened to "do no harm?" Oh.. it's .. nebulous !

If only my neighbors heeded CARB about fireplaces, too : |
 
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