Yep it’s another step down the control line of thought. Don’t forget that you can send multiple signals down one wire if you do it at different frequencies.

So your home could and probably will just become a node on the end of a network with each appliance having an up address that can be turned on or off at will.

The technology is there

I have just received this from Technocracy News and it scares the sh*t out of me.

https://www.technocracy.news/uk-paves-way-for-smart-meters-to-directly-control-home-appliances/

I would not worry too much. The technology will not get very far before the whole thing is scrapped as a multi billion pound fiasco. The actual reason behind it is the whole "renewable energy" scam.

By their very nature "renewable energy" generating sources are low output, very unreliable, very variable, and in the case of wind, actively destabilize the local grid. So the whole national grid has to be completely turned inside out and rebuilt from the bottom up as they try to replace very stable large output base load generating capacity like natural gas, oil, coal and nuclear with very unstable low output generating capacity like wind and solar.

A 300MW natural gas plant will produce electricity 90% plus of the time, spin up time when needed 15 mins. A 300MW wind farm will produce electricity 10% to 15% of the time, has no spin up capacity for peak loads, and needs at least 200MW plus of backup capacity available at all times (usually from natural gas plants) for when it will inevitable lose output due to momentary changes in wind, etc. The recent blackout in the southern England happened because the wind faded out (as usual) but the back up natural gas plant had tripped and was not available to pick up the load.

The huge power blackouts in Victoria a few years ago which lasted weeks in some areas was the same kind of situation. Except their backup for wind was power imported from New South Wales. Which is mostly generated from coal. When the inter-state transmission lines went down due to wildfires, all power gone. Victoria used to generate most of it power from coal. Which was very reliable. They shutdown the coal plants so now you cannot use your air-conditioner during heatwaves. Because the power grid would overload and collapse.

At the moment the UK government are paying companies hundreds of millions of pounds for access to huge diesel generators as back up capacity for the national grid when "renewable energy" power plants fail to generate enough power and the grid becomes unstable. The whole push to put in smart meters in household is solely to allow the national grid operators to shed load (turn your power off) when they run out of power due to "renewable energy" being so unstable and undependable. If they turn off power to 200K random households all over the country for a few hours there is unlikely to be any public outcry. But if they are forced to blackout a few small towns, which is what they have to do at the moment, then it makes the national news.

That's the only reason for "smart meters". No other. To stop the power grid collapsing due to unreliable "renewable energy" power sources. And to make sure there is little or no publicity about the inevitable blackouts.

Build a couple of dozen new natural gas, oil, nuclear and coal power plants and the problem goes away very quickly. And the gross wholesale price of electricity at grid entry would drop at least 70%. Because "renewable energy" (except hydro) when you factor in all the costs and remove all the subsides is actually very very expensive per KW/h.

So I would not worry. It will be all gone in a decade or so when the current fad for "renewable energy" runs its course. But only after doing very serious damage to the economy.

its not just the current lockdowns etc where the political classes have shown willful negligence and total stupidity completely at variance with the hard provable numbers. These people have form. Going back at least two decades or more..