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Hoodwinking Thermostats

By: FMeekins (Diary)  |  April 24th, 2010 at 10:29 PM  | 

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The electric company is trying to hoodwink customers into signing up for web-programmable thermostats.

But if you can set your temperature over the Internet, what is to prevent it from being set by a party other than the homeowner?

On the advertisement it reads that the web-programmable thermostat will be used to “cycle off air conditioners during peek hours”.

Control to this extent is the ultimate goal of the so-called “smart grid” advocated by Obama.

However, you will no doubt be the one left perspiring in the summer heat even though the Obama hag is the one that insists upon going around sleeveless.

by Frederick Meekins

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  • acat

    .. two houses ago. They installed a grey box on the side of the A/C compressor and, just like they said, for ten minutes of every hour, the thing wouldn’t kick over.

    Turned out to not be as bad as I’d thought – since the house had all new windows and insulation, it didn’t jump more than a degree or two even in a heat wave during the ten minutes.

    However.

    That program didn’t pock around with the thermostat itself, just the compressor. IIRC, Cali was trying to make it a crime to set a residential interior temperature too high in winter or too low in summer – and since this pocks directly with the thermostat – perhaps that’s where they’re going….

    Mew

  • Menlo

    When I look at the things people buy based on an ad or promotion, I’d say most of them get what they deserve, whether it’s Lasik surgery (two eyes for the price of one) or the 2008 election.

    I won’t even consider online bill pay or banking; I’m certainly not doing online thermostat.

    I don’t know how the liberals will reconcile this. They’ve had no problem funding air conditioning for low income people once stories break out about all the seniors on fixed incomes being rushed to the hospital for heat stroke. I guess now they’ll just lump everyone together in cooling centers.