On 04/02/2021 09:56, R D S wrote:
On 04/02/2021 08:24, Peter James wrote:
And so the matter now rests.Â* The moral of the story children is this,
that
when the nice man asks you if you would like a nice smart meter, kick
him in
the balls and run away and tell a policeman.


Yes.

When we had ours replaced a few years ago it involved 'the gas board'
coming out 3 times to fix leaks caused. And one callout from a plumber
that I paid because I needed it doing right then and there.
I've ended up with completely new pipework inside and out but that's not
really the point.

And when we changed supplier more recently the meters went into some
sort of error mode and couldn't be read. Much time wasted by email and
phone over a number of months to get that sorted.

So personally i've lost interest in being a money saving expert.

why on earth anyone thought that power companies would want to spend
money to allow their customers to save money, is beyond me.


--
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen