Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
issues like changes in demand, intermittent renewable power sources, and equipment malfunctions. In addition to getting the hardware in place, the utilities will be facing an enormous IT challenge, as the data has to be transmitted on secure networks, analyzed, archived, etc. The $2 billion will help cover these projects as well. Another $400 million will be used to modernize transmission lines, both to limit the losses during transmission and to allow greater long-distance shuffling of power, "so that a wind farm in rural South Dakota can power homes in Chicago," as Obama put it. Another $25 million is going to foster the development of a smart device manufacturing capability. In making the announcement, Obama claimed that the smart meters and demand- response pricing should enable consumers to save over $20 billion during the next decade, far exceeding the cost of the new program. He also suggested that the projects would increase grid reliability, limiting the $150 billion a year in economic losses suffered due to power outages. All of that is generally good news, but the longer-term significance of this program
may simply be to push smart metering and equipment out of the realm of test projects and into the mainstream. So far, smart meter deployments have been the rare exception on the US grid; if the program works as planned, nearly five percent of US households will have experience with them in the near future, and the utilities will have a wealth of real-world experience with the technology.
Who will be Benefitting the Most from the Money? – Al Gore’s Web
As one can see from the previous articles and those following, those who will be benefiting financially and are pushing Cap and Trade and the Smart Grid and Smart Meters are such “benevolent, unselfish” people as Al Gore, who is part owner of a carbon offset company and many other “green” investment firms. He gets a profit from those who trade in CO2 credits through his company. Does that help to explain why he is so involved in pushing the global warming scam?
Others who are going to benefit are all those who own or have stock in the manufacturing plants of the new technology, the Smart Meters themselves, and the new smart appliances that are supposed to be ready to go in 2012. Many of those were listed on pages 22-23, such as General Electric, Whirlpool, and IBM and other IT companies such as Siemens, Cisco, Panasonic, Kyocera, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Google, Microsoft, etc. Others who will benefit are utility companies who will be involved in modernizing and installing the infrastructure, the transportation lines and the meters themselves.
Al Gore’s Web of Investments – How He Has Benefited Economically from Global Warming Hysteria in Cap and Trade and SmartGrid: As Brian Sussman states in his book, Climate Gate, after decades of helping to create “global-warming hysteria” Al Gore is “cashing in” on all the profits that hysteria has created. “For Gore, cap-and-trade seems to be an easy means of cash and carry.” As you will see in the following illustration, Gore and other millionaire/billionaires have invested much money in “green” businesses and technology, including companies invested heavily in the SmartGrid. “green” groups Gore is invested in:
Here is a summation of all the
• Metropolitan West: In 2001, Gore co-founded the green financial investment firm, Metropolitan West, with Philip Murphy, formerly of Goldman Sachs. In 2003 it was sold to Wachovia Bank for $50 million.
• Google Stock: Also in 2001, Gore became an advisor to Google, picking up much Google stock before it went public. His stock is now worth millions.
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