I heard a report on NPR where the person who was advocating smart-power was gleefully describing how they would be able to remotely set the thermostat in someone’s home.
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Can you find a link for that and post it, maybe on the NPR website or some other one?
Monitoring Home Usage
One recent afternoon, Tom Stathos from PPL is looking over Yeakel's shoulder as she clicks through the site. He notices that Yeakel's electricity use surges upward around 8 p.m. and asks her to explain what happens in her house at that time.
"My husband comes home," she says. He turns on the television and lights, leaves doors open and starts cooking. "We're always behind him turning everything off," Yeakel says with a giggle, adding that even her 4-year-old twins pitch in.
This woman has let a man into her home to interrogate her and support the castigation of her husband.
See Post 19 and 24 in this thread. 19 has the link.