Posted on 03/07/2009 4:01:51 PM PST by upchuck
Edited on 03/07/2009 4:07:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Smart Grid is part of a global initiative to manage information, all information. This is not some dire fictional prediction; it exists right now, right here in the United States, and thanks to President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury can lend the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a division of the Department of Energy, $3.25 billion to implement Smart Grid:
“(B) the Secretary shall, without further
appropriation and ‘without fiscal year limitation, loan to the Western Area Power Administration, on such terms as may be fixed by the Administrator and the Secretary, such sums (not to exceed, in the aggregate (including deferred interest),$3,250,000,000-in outstanding repayable balances at anyone time) as, in the judgment of the Administrator, are from time to time required for the purpose of [...] In carrying out the initiative, the Secretary shall provide financial support to smart grid demonstration projects in urban, suburban, tribal, and rural areas, including areas where electric system assets are controlled by nonprofit entities and areas where
electric system assets are controlled by investor- owned utilities.
Ostensibly, Smart Grid is about energy efficiency and climate change. This intelligent power grid gathers information about individual energy use via sensors embedded in the transmission lines and in homes and businesses. The government, via WAPA, will know what temperature you keep your home or business at. If you keep your domicile warmer or cooler than the temperature approved by the federal government, you pay more. To some, this is an acceptable arrangement, until they discover what else Smart Grid can do.
According to IBM, one of the two corporations which will receive most of the money (the other is GE),
The world is becoming instrumented. By 2010, there will be a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten-millionth of a cent.
The world is becoming interconnected. With a trillion networked things—cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals and even livestock—the amount of information created by those interactions grows exponentially.
All things are becoming intelligent. Algorithms and powerful systems can analyze and turn those mountains of data into actual decisions and actions that make the world work better. Smarter.
Did you catch that? Smart Grid will allow the government to collect information about you, your habits, and possessions. All they need are a few sensors to know what is in your refrigerator; how long you spend in the bathroom; if you smoke in your home; if you drink alcohol in your home; and how many people are in your home or business at any one time. Science fiction? Don’t bet on it. IBM knows different.
And if the above statements aren’t enough to get you thinking, how about this:
Nanotechnology e-textiles for biomonitoring and wearable electronics-
If current research is an indicator, wearable electronics will go far beyond just very small electronic devices or wearable, flexible computers. Not only will these devices be embedded in textile substrates but an electronics device or system could ultimately become the fabric itself. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) will allow the design and production of a new generation of garments with distributed sensors and electronic functions. Such e-textiles will have the revolutionary ability to sense, act, store, emit, and move – think biomedical monitoring functions or new man-machine interfaces – while ideally leveraging an existing low-cost textile manufacturing infrastructure.
Here’s the scenario: you buy a pair of socks, using your credit or debit card (cash is already being discouraged). Because of Smart Grid, your house will be able to read the bar code on those socks as you bring them through the door and add them to a list it keeps of your clothes; size, price, origin, when worn, etc. The computer that controls your home’s thermostat and lights also controls your wardrobe, budget, social habits, and even your eating habits. The refrigerator reads the bar codes on your food. Someone with access to that information knows when you eat, what you eat, what you paid for it, and how long something has been in the fridge.
If you’re like me, and do a lot of canning, you’re probably thinking, “so what?” That’s what my initial thought was. It can’t read a bar code if there isn’t one. Hmmm. What if your home’s computer believed that based on how many people live in the home there’s not enough food being purchased? How long do you think it would take the electronic nanny to notify child protective services or other authorities?
Again, this isn’t science fiction. It’s happening right now in South Bend, Indiana, and Florida and California. Now that President Obama’s spending package has been pushed down our windpipes, effectively choking off any opposition, look for development of an electronic super nanny by Big Brother. This is change we can believe in? It’s change alright rural America, and it’s coming for you. Notice on GE’s page there are no pictures of urban or suburban dwellings, only a rural home? An oversight? Not according to Alan Keyes.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Keyes in the summer of 2008. He told me then that rural people should understand that there is a concerted effort to remove all control from rural areas and concentrate it in Washington D.C. After reading about the billions of dollars the White House has allocated to watching its rural citizens, I’d say he hit the nail on the head. We are the targets; the lonely little home on GE’s website might as well have a bull’s eye on the roof. Dr. Keyes told me the Illuminati who are running D.C. are worried about rural people because we are exposed to less media than our urban counterparts: we’re harder to control.
One of the largest components of Smart Grid is already being implemented by the USDA; it’s called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) it requires farmers to implant a RFID tag into the body of all of their livestock–cows, pigs, goats, chickens, sheep, all livestock. The NAIS threatens to destroy small-scale family farms. If you’re not familiar with the NAIS, here are a couple of resources: Downsize DC, NAIS: Too little too late? and NAIS: Let’s do some fuzzy math. Coupled with Smart Grid, the NAIS strengthens the ability of Government officials to control rural Americans as completely as they control people in the cities.
Remember, President Obama believes implementing Smart Grid is urgent. He wants the program to expand quickly, with all of us on the thinking grid by 2011. All of us. Resistance is futile.
I’m pretty conservative with my electricity usage to begin with. I don’t need a nanny to make sure I’m not using more than my fair share.
Live off the Grid?
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I have been a technology student since the mid 1970’s.
Both digital and RF. I have had photovoltaic panels since early 1980’s. Have experience building CMOS devices.
Big Commercial Wind Chargers are very common here, and except for air conditioning and the refrigerator, I could cut away from the grid. With a small wind charger I could probably take care of those also.
It is possible to have a small 12 V. refrig. but not that practical.
I am heat tolerant, but my wife is not.
For the past 6 months I have worked remotely, over a company VPN network. I like that. I traveled as an outside salesman and sales manager for over 30 years. Do not miss the travel, but I do miss the action and the people.
My family farms (in this county for over 110 years), and we are planning a big garden this time. Have considered putting up a chicken coup and adding some chickens at the farm. We have too many cattle. There is a lot of wild game her also.
Also have a building to butcher livestock, built because we could not get it done locally any more. Have Hobart commercial butchers band saw, Hobard meat grinder, and Hobart meat slicer. In the building is a large walk-in refrig.
I know this all sound paranoid, but I am not like that. No tinfoil hat here. Just do not like where we are going.
What type and strength of RF destroys an RFID? What quantity of electric current destroys the sensors in a smart grid?
That processing house aint running on solar or wind
Commies always see freedom lovers as evil. Freedom exposes their inability to built anything. Something they cannot tolerate.
All Commies can do is subject people, and redistribute what others have created. Closed loop flat spin economy. Ending eventually in collapse.
We are in a collapse, but it is not Capitalism that is collapsing, but Global Corporatism that is collapsing.
I pray nightly for my nation and my family. We must always remember that ultimately we are not really in control.
But, I will not be a “good little” Dhemmi!
No, but we have a good welder/generator that will run it.
How? “First, the world is becoming instrumented. Imagine, if you can, a billion transistors for every human being. WE’RE ALMOST THERE. Sensors are being embedded everywhere: in cars, appliances, cameras, roads, pipelines…even in medicine and livestock.”
Rev 13:
11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. “
They always project themselves onto others.
Smart Grid stands for “Mark of the Beast”.
Just because I said I could live off the grid, does not mean that I will.
But, if push comes to shove, we can do it.
As the song says: “A country boy can survive”
What are, “Big Commercial Wind Chargers?”
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And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(It is a subtle difference by my copy says IN not ON.)
Those that power companies pay land owners rent to place them on the land. They are becoming common here. We are running a test weather station to document wind velocity for that type of installation.
I just checked 5 newer versions, which do you have?
King James Version and my text electronic equivalent of the KJV both say “in”.
I think this is relevant because “retina scan” could answer in the head, and the “chip implants” could account for the “in” the hand.
Just my opinion. But I have thought about this before.
Maybe it’s time to get that magneto for my Shovelhead sooner rather than later.
I don’t see Orwell in this thing. However, I see much bigger energy bills.
Utilities will use the cash to install smart meters that shut off at peak times, and charge more for electricity at peak hours.
They will use tax dollars to charge us more $$$.
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