Posted on 09/09/2022 4:44:30 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Around 22,000 households in Colorado lost the ability to control their thermostats after the power company seized control of them during a heatwave.
After temperatures soared past 90 degrees, residents were left confused when they tried to adjust their air conditioning and found locked controls displaying a message that said “energy emergency.”
Xcel confirmed to local news station Denver7 that “22,000 customers who had signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their smart thermostats for hours on Tuesday.”
“I mean, it was 90 out, and it was right during the peak period,” Tony Talarico told the news station. “It was hot.”
Talarico said he is normally able to override the “energy emergency” message, but not on this occasion.
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You gotta be real dumb to have a smart thermostat.
Tony thought his "smart thermostat" would only restrict his energy usage when the weather was cool and mild.
I’m guessing the thermostat is smarter than him then.
Tony, just keep voting for Dumbocrats.
For $250 I’ll wire in a parallel thermostat that bypasses their thermostat.
That's probably a crime of some type.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.
We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.
We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.
We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set.
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
No doubt..
Here come the rewards!
“Signed up”...they gave their permission.
Quit bitching....morons.
90 egrees would seem like winter in Calif. central valley, it’s 104 degrees hare at 5:00 pm, the coolest it’s been in over a week at this time!
We are living a dystopian novel.
Or nightmare….
Gotta love the Infowars clickbait/more ad revenue headline! The customers with the “siezed” thermostats signed up to get “seized”...because they wanted the $125.00 and the additional $25. per month. (Or they are just “Greenies” or something). Self-inflicted:
https://co.my.xcelenergy.com/s/residential/heating-cooling/ac-rewards
I think it's a good idea, and I'd sign up. The alternative, given the fragile state of our grids, (yes plural) is rolling blackouts with no notice.
They need dumb thermostats.
I like dumb appliances.
Less to go wrong.
No chance of hacking.
And smart thermostats can be replaced easily by the old “dumb” ones. And, the “dumb” ones come with instructions to connect the three or four wires (which are color coded)which lead to the heating/cooling systems.
For lib arts grads, get your local home-schooled third grader to do the connections for you.
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