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Nuclear industry bribed politicians to kill app electric utility customers love
- mouth 6y agoI was impacted by this, and ended up building my own replacement with a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant, a Honeywell T6 Z-wave thermostat, and rtlamr (https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr) to read the smart meter signal.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoDid you consider the Sense power monitor? https://sense.com https://sense.com
- mouth 6y agoI considered multiple solutions, but found that a simple $20 USB stick would do. I also wanted a solution that didn’t require an always on cloud/internet connection.
- redis_mlc 6y agoJust another example of how nuclear corrupts our society. For those HN nuclear apologists who keep saying, "The problem is the people." - well, duh.
- rational_indian 6y agoVery interesting! What is the conviction rate of corrupt politicians in the US? Edit: Also I don't follow why the nuclear industry would be opposed to the app.
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- mouth 6y agoAppears to be self-preservation. From the article: “According to the FBI, two nuclear power plants that were due to close in 2020 and 2021 were saved by the legislation, and were given millions in redirected funds under the new law.”
- junon 6y agoI'm all for nuclear power but this is not at all how I want them to behave. It's not often that power companies do good by their customers and this app sounded like it was genuinely a win-win. Dispicable.
- natch 6y agoWith centralized power options, you are dealing with market forces that give them every incentive to behave this way. Expecting them to behave otherwise would be wishful thinking. Decentralized power options like locally owned (down to the household level, even) solar and wind, augmented with batteries, give freedom and control to individual people, so they don’t have this problem.