[Cvengr]

Of course, if some authority decided to relocate all people from a region, then enforce that decision by martial law, in the past the people could simply vote with their feet and rebel.

The mechanisms are being placed to trace anybody who might rebel from forced relocation.

The reasonable and plausible explanations for these extremely high cost systems do not make economic sense.

They cost at least 1 to 2 orders of magnitude more than the value of any energy conserved in their implementation.

I don’t believe there is a publicly valid explanation for their implementation. It leaves many a pregnant question and too many nefarious possibilities.

[backwoods-engineer]

The mechanisms are being placed to trace anybody who might rebel from forced relocation. The reasonable and plausible explanations for these extremely high cost systems do not make economic sense. They cost at least 1 to 2 orders of magnitude more than the value of any energy conserved in their implementation.

Paranoid nonsense! Do you know what they actually cost? I do! I design them! And there is NOTHING in the firmware about forced relocation! Geez, these things barely have enough RAM and flash memory to perform their main function!

[FrogMom]

It leaves many a pregnant question and too many nefarious possibilities.

Al Gore had interests in plumbing and one of his best friends had the patent on the freon replacement.

Now he's HUGELY invested in "alternative energy" companies. We are paying out the nose for less-effective stuff so Al Gore and his cronies can get richer. End of story.