Posts tagged with Westar
Smart Grid or Slave Grid?
Locally Westar has introduced Smart Grid technologies that are billed as helping individuals track and manage their power usage and also help the power company manage its load. Does this technology, though pose a threat to civil liberties in ways we haven't thought about yet? I don't know... but a cousin in Canada sent this link to me from a Canadian Libertarian think tank...not a site I would normally visit...but it does provide an interesting take on the new smart grid technologies.
http://www.mises.ca/posts/articles/the-smart-grid-as-the-slave-grid/
For the record, neither my cousin or I use old style incandescent bulbs and personally I like my smart meter. So check the article out. What do you think? Are these fears real or vastly overblown?
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- Commissioners concerned that Wicked Broadband is trying to manipulate process ahead of key vote January 23, 2015 · 65 comments
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- Sin tax increases could hurt wallets, but unlikely to curb vices, Lawrencians say January 24, 2015 · 16 comments
- Opinion: Europe gets the joke of Fox News January 25, 2015 · 26 comments
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- Abortion foes push new bills in Kansas, Congress January 21, 2015 · 36 comments
- KU law student files for seat on Lawrence City Commission January 23, 2015 · 13 comments
- Brownback shifts blame for state budget woes on Legislature January 24, 2015 · 23 comments
- Kansas governor proposes to backpedal on school funding January 25, 2015 · 7 comments
- KU women knock off West Virginia for 2nd straight Big 12 victory January 24, 2015
- Sin tax increases could hurt wallets, but unlikely to curb vices, Lawrencians say January 24, 2015
- Boys & Girls Club looking at building teen center near Lawrence schools' College and Career Center January 24, 2015
- Opinion: Europe gets the joke of Fox News January 25, 2015
- Lawrence officials answer common questions about curbside recycling program January 24, 2015
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- Kansas bests Texas in near flawless road victory January 24, 2015
- Kansas governor proposes to backpedal on school funding January 25, 2015
- Brownback shifts blame for state budget woes on Legislature January 24, 2015
- Opinion: Welfare weakens core U.S. values January 23, 2015
