Gadgets are, sadly, totally wasted on me, so I am not remotely excited by the prospect of my Nespresso machine or my clothes dryer talking either to me or to each other. I am even less excited about my energy company installing a Smart Meter in my house which not only bathes me …
Smart meters
Anne Frank – and smart meters…
Many of you will have heard me talk before about the lovely and wonderful Dr Olle Johansson, one of the leading academic scientists fighting the electrosensitivity cause and one of the authors of the Biotinitiative Report. (For the un-initiated - A Rationale for …
Spain taxes sunlight….
Do you sometimes wonder if you have read something aright – as I did when I read, in Josh de Sol's damning critique of the smart meter 'scam' in the US :– With 6 of the 7 world’s richest companies in the oil/gas/energy industry, should it be surprising that corporate …
Wifi banned in French schools and smart meters delayed
Leading the way in adopting the 'precautionary approach', in March this year the French Assembly banned the use of wifi in schools 'until it is proven safe for human consumption'. Bravo for the Assembly! (They were absolutely not, incidentally, being Luddite here – they just …
Smart meters – wider concerns
Smart meters were heralded by energy suppliers and some environmentalists as a major tool by which we could control our energy consumption and thereby help to reduce greenhouse gases. Each house could monitor its energy consumption room by room, billing would be easier and more …