Posted on 06/26/2011 11:38:35 AM PDT by brityank
So let me get this straight - these government clowns, not content with shutting down our own energy production, and flooding our most productive center-continent farmland - they want to make all of Fly-Over Country a lab experiment? FIRE THEM ALL !!
Sounds like as bad an idea as ‘low-flow’ toilets were.
Is there anything the obama administration isn't trying to destroy?
This angers me considerably.
With all the garbage spending on Leftist pipe dreams, the things that get cut first are the very things we should be spending money on.
This is just one more level of chaos government is foisting off on us. I see this as designed decay of our infrastructure, things we should be able to rely on being pristine, above being tinkered with, none the less being marginalized to ‘save money’. B. S.
Ohm my god!
Something tells me it will ‘disrupt’ more than clocks.
I’m honestly not sure how traffic lights are controlled. It would seem to be an area of concern, that some lights might be off by five to fourteen seconds per day.
Imagine what a three second variance could cost people at street intersections. Perhaps I’m not looking at this from the proper perspective/knowledge base.
If one direction were to leave three seconds early/late, ouch...
I suppose each light would be affected by the same electricity source with variations.
I think of my VCR/DVR and other digital clocks. Good Lord, having to reset them every stinkin’ day?
These people must lay awake at night thinking up new ways to inconvenience people.
Sweeping brown-outs won’t hurt a thing./s
Watch them start breaking areas into power zones. Some will have constantly regulated power. Others, and that will be the vast majority, will be subject to the will of the wind. Literally.
And that may be the final straw for me. Half-cooked chicken really pisses me off.
Watt are they thinking?
I doubt that you will have to. With today's electronics, I think many of them have a built in timing reference, like a 32 khz crystal. It's the old motor driven clocks that use synchronous motors that will have an accuracy problem.
Wheres the BS meter?
Indeed it will.
How about the equipment in the hospitals or in homes that rely on that frequency for timing for monitoring or medications? Electric motors in your home appliances will have to work harder - creating more heat leading to earlier breakdowns.
But that's OK - we'll all get electric cars to tide us over!
“Is anyone using the grid to keep track of time?” McClelland said. “Let’s see if anyone complains if we eliminate it.”
Watt's the matter with these people?
We'll be washing clothes in the rain barrel if we don't get these idiots out of office, soon.
Leave it to government to mess with something that isn’t broken.
Worse, since plug-in alarm clocks don’t depend on proper toilet flushes to keep accurate time. Just because crystals “can” regulate to within a second a year doesn’t mean every clock design goes to the expense of using such a crystal. They didn’t have to, when it was a given that over time, cumulative cycle counts would always return to normal. Whoever came up with this asinine idea would be kicked out of even the most redneck electrical engineering department in the land (wherever that might be) with straight F’s. Is this intended to be able to accommodate dirt-cheap solar power stations, windmills, and other corner-cutting power generator designs that can’t bother to look to a super-accurate standard like the cesium clock at WWV to keep cumulative cycle counts “going down the middle”?
My power company has been trying to get us to move to "Smart Meters" - where they control your AC power feed. FU I said!
It will be burning up motors,transformers,electronics etc...
Especially large power users like manufacturing...
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