Just buy a bunch of batteries and charge them on off peak hours.
:awwyeah:

Yeah, peak hour billing is a bit of a money grab in BC.

In BC, where the majority of our power comes from hydroelectric dams the "fuel" (falling water) is practically free. The cost difference between running one generator at a dam versus ten is relatively small. And don't believe the whole "net importer" bullshit, we have TONS of spare capacity if we need it. Burrard Thermal is a 1GW station that basically goes completely unused.

Peak billing makes sense in the US where they have a lot of coal and gas, because their fuel is bloody expensive.

Of course the alternative to peak hour billing would be more expensive overall billing for everyong. Wouldn't that be awesome? That way, instead of adjusting your power consumption to save money, you just pay more! :awwyeah:

And BC already has among the cheapest power in the world. They always will.

Again, if you want to argue against the idea of peak billing, that is fine. I disagree, but at least you aren't making a complete idiot out of yourself with all the "radiation" speak and conspiracy theories.

Like I said, there's not a whole lot of reason for power during "Peak" times to be significantly more expensive than "off peak" times here in BC.

I hate dumb asses like you. I don't get how anybody can be considered an idiot when its a fact they emit radiation. People have a reason to be worried. When they implement peak hour billing I'm assuming they will go from only being on a few minutes a day to all day long?? You will be exposed to the waves all day long and they will be everywhere...

I don't know what these will do to our health in the future but honestly you're just a big of an idiot as you make the conspiracy theorists out to be because we're just now being exposed to these.

I remember when they used to say cell phones didn't cause brain cancer but now even the World Health Organization admits it ...Idiots like you probably would have had the same stance you do now.

Yup that probably explains why BC Hydro has never even said they are considering it. People are just dumb, and will come up with any bullshit reason to go against something... Which they have the right to do, but when they go against stupid shit like this, and not stuff that actually matters, my brain goes :fulloffuck:

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Yeah, I'm don't hate on the smart meters themselves because they simply have the ability track peak billing.

If they ever did go to Peak billing I'd put my hate on Hydro itself, and the government for letting them do it.

Although I take Hydro's current denial about Peak billing with a bit of skepticism. I wouldn't trust them to not change their mind about something like that in the future.

Even if they switch to peak billing hours, the meters wont be broadcasting all day. It will simply keep track as to what your power consumption between x and Y times are and will transmit that information when the meter maid drives by. And, really... a two minute broadcast isn't going to do anything to your body.

Do you own a cellphone? Wireless home phones? How about a wireless router? Do you live near any transmission towers? Do you use a microwave? Hell, do you gamble? There's RF trackers in high value chips. My point is there are far many more objects out there that either use RF, some type of wireless pulse, or are simply much more "dangerous" to a human on a much more continuous basis that to worry about smart meters is simply inane.

^ lol didn't realize his name until you quoted him

surreyjack604 :troll:

Not technically true.

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk - CNN.com

They found evidence of an increase in risk.. but the millions of cellphone users out there aren't finding tumours bulging out of their head.

My point was that when cell phones first came out they said there was no risk.

But in the 25 or so years that we've had cellular networks they've refined the technology to properly utilize it in things like smart meters.

Its not like the smart meters will operate on Cold War-era mobile phone technology.

They'll transmit for 10-30 seconds (approx) once a day on an advanced band.


Hell, watching your Pizza Pop spin in the microwave is probably worse for you.

What about chem trails though guys!:suspicious:

You can add "do you live on earth" and "do you go outside" to the list of things that expose you to radiation.

No they didn't, they said they weren't sure, and most likely there wasn't. And now we know there wasn't.

Not sure if anyone's remembered, but the truly harmful type of radiation is ionizing radiation. Cellphones, smartmeters and other things of that sort emit non-ionizing radiation. It's true, the WHO has now added it to their list of "Stuff we may now think possibly could have some link to cancer in some way if we do a lot more research over several more decades", but it is still infinitely less powerful than...uh...sleeping next to your SO.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/radiation.png

LMFAO DAT SURREY JACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wait, i'm not understanding whats bad about peak hour billing..

i thought they only need to build as many dams/generators to produce the power needed during peak hours, so if people spread out their usage through the day, the peak will be less and less dams/generators needed, so that's a save on infrastructure, no?

please do us all a favor and constantly keep your cell phone by your balls. k. thx.

irony of the joke is you probably keep your phone in your pocket

Still no risk:
BBC News - Mobile phones: 'Still no evidence of harm to health'

I could care less if there are any problems with smart meters or not. It's the fact that we never got the ability to chose. Next thing you know they will ban turbos because they use too much gas and are bad for the enviroment, and you wont get to vote on that either.

The fact that it cost them 1 billion dollars for the meters, yet it's supposed to save you more money in the long run is the greatest scam/sales pitch people are sold. I'll be damned if the cost of those meters arn't recouped, by gouging the customers but by that time it will be too late.

Why the fucking fuck would you get to vote for or against using digital meters instead of analog?

If you don't want to feel like you are 'monitored' then cancel your electricity and generate it yourself. Otherwise, buy a wind turbine and make your own.

All these people feeling like 'big brother' is watching. Honestly, if you are not growing pot, then stop worrying. Its not like they are putting cameras up inside your house and watching you surf youporn...

Nobody complains about the internet company (telus/shaw) knowing what you are browsing.

People complaining about their energy consumption are probably going on facebook and revealing personal pictures and information blatantly. I thought our generation gave zero fucks when it came to privacy....