There’s an energy crisis in Britain because successive governments have bought the not-so-great global warming swindle and failed to ensure that there is enough power generation capacity to meet demand. What’s the Big Solution? Wasting lots of money on smart meters to intimidate people into not using electricity. The ambition is to put in every kitchen, a gadget which goes crazy when the customer plugs something in, such as an electric kettle.
But, as lots of others have pointed out, no matter what the gadget does, the customer isn’t going to unplug the kettle, or another gadget, until it has completed its job. So what’s the point of the gadget? What is needed instead is smart customers.
Another false positive of the smart meter is that it eliminates the “misery” of an estimated power bill. But there are lots of energy customers who are capable of reading a meter and inputting the results at the power company’s website. Which means that a whole lot of cash can be saved by giving smart customers a suitable bonus in recognition of their efforts and dishing out smart meters only to those who need them.
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