Linked into the smart grid

How does it work? 
I own an EV and until now I get a flat fee bill, an approximate $0.05/day increase since I got my car. This smart meter knows that I charge my car at night and so I only get billed for the wattage that I use vs. the flat fee we've always received.
http://www.dom.com/about/environment/electric-vehicle-plus-home-pricing-plan.jsp

Now I'm looking at Android@Home, x10 alternatives for true 'future-home automation' nerd-dom. Tying in my home security, appliances, light switches etc. http://www.smarthome.com/

Over the next year or so I'll be upgrading ports, fixtures etc and hopefully looking for dashboards like http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/ to enjoy some data porn. Too bad Google nixed the power-meter servicehttp://www.google.com/powermeter/about/ I'll keep you updated on these projects.

Discuss on Google+ 

• I wish people would actually try to find out why he won. - noble
• If you're against Obama winning the Nobel, you're with the Taliban: http://bit.ly/hPyUx
• Al Gore didn't achieve an end to global warming in 2007, yet he deserved the Nobel then, right?

• How to win the Nobel Prize in 12 days http://bit.ly/14reEL- Fox News
• "Something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award." - Rush Limbaugh
• Obama won Nobel through affirmative action: http://bit.ly/12TeAy - RedState

• No Kenyan has ever been able to fool the committee before!!

• I heard they renamed the award :"The NoBallz prize". - DrudgeReport

• Turns out there is an Acorn office in Oslo!! - FoxNation

• "We have seen no change in his strategy for peace. He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan" - Taliban

• Why did he win? He hasn't done anything - everyone upon first hearing this news.
• "I am both surprised and deeply humbled" - Pres. Obama
• Maybe a consolation prize for losing the Olympics?
• Where's the peace in Chicago?

• "Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" - Nobel Committee

• "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

  "Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

  "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

  "For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." - Norwegian Nobel Committee