If you didn't know the real reason for smart meters....

[ellal]

Think again...

And this is just the start!

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/switch-off-and-get-paid-20121030-28hrd.html

 

[longdogs]

Do we get the option to cut the directors' wages?

 

[Whitespirit66]

Feck the environMENTALists. Go nuclear now!

Or do we all want to be sitting in the dark. Oh and in the cold too. Your boiler won't work without some juice.

 

[crystal ball]

Nothing new there, when I lived in Southern Africa the supply authority frequently switched off high current equipment by firing a HF signal down the line to relays in domestic customers houses

 

[Whitespirit66]

Nothing new there, when I lived in Southern Africa the supply authority frequently switched off high current equipment by firing a HF signal down the line to relays in domestic customers houses

Would also have been useful in South Africa, when Mandela took over. The natives were up in arms because they suddenly found they had to start paying for electricity.

The apartheid era wasn't all bad for them.