Rupert Darwall & Smart Meters
May 9, 2024
By Paul Homewood
JHB interviews Rupert Darwall about smart meters:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Gosh! Don’t tell us that Albert Einstein was telling us porkie pies in the telly adverts!
I’d love to know how much money has been wasted in providing and installing “smart” meters. Not to mention the costs of trying to get them to work.
You can be assured Martin, it’s 100’s of £Millions and despite still plodding on with the installation targets, there’s more than 3 million already fitted, that no longer work, they’ve gone dumb
I think it’s close to £25bn so far with more to come to replace them all when 2G gets switched off. Of course the next generation will have much more sophisticated control built in. It might even call the energy police Fahrenheit 451 style if you use too much.
If Cultural Appropriation is considered such a no-no, that advert manages to fall foul of it in so many ways. I just wish the descendants of Einstein could sue.
Somebody owns the “Rights” to his image. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He left them his manuscripts & copywrite. They’ve added his image to their collection. Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face | Advertising | The Guardian
As a professionally qualified and highly competent Electrical Engineer and HV Project Manager in energy and power generation & distribution sectors, with 40+ years, hands on experience, I can say, with all honesty, I will never voluntarily have a smart meter, for the several, well documented reasons
4.31 million faulty smart meters to be exact
I lived in France for 20 years starting in 2001. At the time 80% of electricity supply was nuclear and in fact there was and is an over-capacity, so demand could easily be met. At the time a popular option was Temp – Blue, White and Red days. Blue days were cheap as they wanted more electricity demand, but the colour of the day was calendar driven with Red days mostly in Winter and White days Autumn or other times of increased demand.
Why if supply was not an issue? At the time the grid infrastructure was insufficient to carry load. (It has since been upgraded). The peak pricing was to prevent over-load.
In the UK we have a dual problem, lack of and intermittency of supply and insufficient grid – both HT long distance and LV local. The distraction is the perpetual talk about wind and solar and if we need more installation. The truth is future demand from heat pumps, BEVs, switch from natural gas cannot be met at two levels and there are no plans or possibility to change that within the next 20 or even 50 years.
The Net Zeroids know it. But all the Smart meters in the World will not change that.
More publicity must be given to the lack of infrastructure, so the public becomes aware it is not just about fossil fuels.
In the UK, ToU tariffs will be rolled into smart meters to curb demand when the silly, intermittent wind & Sun don’t turn up – already we have had 5 days of low wind (2-4% demand) and it looks like it won’t return until over the weekend – Dunkleflaute in full effect – it won’t wake up the idiots in DESNZ though, thick as mince they are
as I write oh point eight per cent from windmills.
More publicity must be given to the lack of infrastructure
Unfortunately, the believer’s have a virtual monopoly re: main stream publicity, although the balance is possibly changing slowly
The speakers demonstrate the idea that when you begin with a false assumption things get increasingly silly going forward. The false axiom is that CO2 is causing the world to destruct. Thus, CO2=bad, predict catastrophic AGW, make Net Zero is compulsory, demand smart meters, return to the 18th century, eat bugs, shiver in the dark, . . .
Correct John, the net zero swindle is of course nothing to do with CO2, or AGW, from an empirical science pov – from the polar bears are extinct, to global boiling, the science or reality do not align with the climeratis weird and wonderful narratives, so they just make stuff up now, weirder by the day 😂
Not seen this on the BBC yet.
Dramatic video captures landslide at Shetland’s Viking wind farm
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/553239/dramatic-video-captures-landslide-at-shetlands-viking-wind-farm/
Access roads and foundations possibly
Wow, bet that wasn’t in the risk assessment
To be fair, I saw it yesterday on the BBC website.
There was a similar incident in Donegal IIRC.
It looks like soil liquefaction, the two fools running towards it obviously have no knowledge of that particular phenomenon.
And another one bites the dust…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13400955/Ministers-halts-plan-create-hydrogen-town.html
Hydrogen heating was never going to work at scale – just making the hydrogen is too energy intensive and inept renewables won’t cut it – plus all pipework & boilers would need upgrade – it would be more stupid than battery cars & heat pumps
So Rupert Darwall is brought on to talk about smart meters, etc only for JHB to do 90% of the talking!
He’s there to make her look good. She’s in show business.
The only use of smart meters is for consumption flexibility i.e. limiting the energy intake of users.
The reason may be other than lack of energy, such as social scoring.
Our worst smart meter suspicions have just been confirmed
The British Gas chief is calling for mandatory installations. This might be good for energy firms, but it won’t be for the consumer
ROSS CLARK 9 May 2024
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/09/our-worst-smart-meter-suspicions-have-just-been-confirmed/
Good luck with all the warrant applications 🙄
Well, at least they can’t cut your gas off.
[Gas can’t be restarted like electricity after a shut off.]
They could cut individual homes off at the metering point, but would be more inclined to put you on a PP meter, meaning you cut yourself off if you don’t pay upfront
You can’t cut people off.
Restarting gas to a residence HAS TO BE a managed process. Else, you kill everybody and/or blow up the house.
He’s calling for mandatory installs, when already 4.31Mn installed aren’t working! He should be stacking shelves in Aldi the utter fail