Where is the tax on the poor here?
He basically shared that some costly energy consumption (such as water heating) can be easily shaped to the supply.
He basically shared that some costly energy consumption (such as water heating) can be easily shaped to the supply.
Total costs will be low if you can also find a perfectly spherical plumber (& electrician (& WiFi/4G-technician)) that charges less than $1 per hour for installation.
Obviously, nobody buys them.
Perhaps the laws and insurance rules are less strict where you are?
I also think that very few people feel comfortable working on household wiring, and very few people are comfortable with fixing plumbed in appliances.
I will add that the law is good, because houses get sold, and wiring is invisible, and no future owner wants to find out their wiring is bodged up by some clueless software engineer.
There is some truely terrifyingly dangerous wiring done by amateurs.
If we're dealing with rural areas reliable internet isn't always a given. The UK had an interesting solution for this for older electricity meters which encodes data in the BBC Radio 4 LW (198 kHz AM) radio station. Most of the country is covered by a single transmitter because of how efficiently LF waves propagate and it doesn't require an internet connection to work. Sadly I think the rise of smart meters will probably be the death knell for Radio 4 LW too.
I think it's easy to forget how flakey the internet can be outside of major cities in some places. Having lived in places that are fairly off the beaten track I wouldn't want my electricity bill to depend on always having a reliable WiFi connection for example.
Yes, since my proposed solution is not 100% it's useless.
Will have them subsidized in units they own (not that poor people generally own) and mandated in units they rent