That, I believe, is one reason why "they" are pushing smart meters. If they can control who gets electricity down to house level then what you say is obviously true.
Add to that digital currencies so they can control exectly what you spend your money on in real time. Then think about "vaccine" passports. They may start as "vaccine" passports but adding another column to the database is trivial after that.
What if thy decide your rating should depend on your web posts? Or those of your friends? How would you know? How could you find out? Will the people making those decisions be elected or will they be faceless bureaucrats?
That is down to how they "sell" the idea of electric cars. They assume that everything will remain the same and people will just plug in their car. However, in the real world, every family in the city will need to keep at least one and possibly many more cars charged up so the increase in electrivity required will be huge.
All numbers need to be challenged from the electric car proponents. Some base the number of houses supported by, say, a solar farm on its maximum rated output. They will omit the night time issues and the fact that every home will probably need twice as much electricity as it does now to charge up all those electric cars and, possibly, suppy electric heating.
Part of the trouble is that the people with the ideas don't do numbers. if it is a good idea then we should do it is their mantra. I once calculated how many wind farms you would need to completely power the USA and I arrived at eight times the area of Texas! OK, I may be wrong - it did happen once - but I would like to see their figures.
Same with storage. The idea is we store the electricity in a rechargable battery. Sounds good but when you start to work out how many batteries you need the numbers get huge. In fact, it is better to work out how many Tesla Gigafactories you would need. I got over 4,000! 80 per state, on average. The numbers increase when you build in the assumed lifespan because not only do you need to make them all in the first pace but you need to keep replacing them as they wear out.
Then I moved on to wind turbines. I calculated how many would be required, assumed a 30 year lifespan then calculated how many replacement turbines you would need to replace every day and the answer was just over 150. So, 150 new wind turbines every day - or 3 per state - for ever.
Solar plants do not need as much space as wind turbines but that land is effectively lost because very little will grow in the shade of square miles of mirrors.
That, I believe, is one reason why "they" are pushing smart meters. If they can control who gets electricity down to house level then what you say is obviously true.
Add to that digital currencies so they can control exectly what you spend your money on in real time. Then think about "vaccine" passports. They may start as "vaccine" passports but adding another column to the database is trivial after that.
What if thy decide your rating should depend on your web posts? Or those of your friends? How would you know? How could you find out? Will the people making those decisions be elected or will they be faceless bureaucrats?
That is down to how they "sell" the idea of electric cars. They assume that everything will remain the same and people will just plug in their car. However, in the real world, every family in the city will need to keep at least one and possibly many more cars charged up so the increase in electrivity required will be huge.
All numbers need to be challenged from the electric car proponents. Some base the number of houses supported by, say, a solar farm on its maximum rated output. They will omit the night time issues and the fact that every home will probably need twice as much electricity as it does now to charge up all those electric cars and, possibly, suppy electric heating.
Part of the trouble is that the people with the ideas don't do numbers. if it is a good idea then we should do it is their mantra. I once calculated how many wind farms you would need to completely power the USA and I arrived at eight times the area of Texas! OK, I may be wrong - it did happen once - but I would like to see their figures.
Same with storage. The idea is we store the electricity in a rechargable battery. Sounds good but when you start to work out how many batteries you need the numbers get huge. In fact, it is better to work out how many Tesla Gigafactories you would need. I got over 4,000! 80 per state, on average. The numbers increase when you build in the assumed lifespan because not only do you need to make them all in the first pace but you need to keep replacing them as they wear out.
Then I moved on to wind turbines. I calculated how many would be required, assumed a 30 year lifespan then calculated how many replacement turbines you would need to replace every day and the answer was just over 150. So, 150 new wind turbines every day - or 3 per state - for ever.
Solar plants do not need as much space as wind turbines but that land is effectively lost because very little will grow in the shade of square miles of mirrors.