[sllug-members]: OT: Smart Electric Power Grid needs Open Standards

[Layne R. Sunderlin]

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Hans G. Ehrbar wrote:

>Smart grids can naturally be combined with BPL (Broadband over Power Lines)
offerings to the consumer.
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BPL still is not meeting standards for not creating pollution of the radio
spectrum.

For more information:
Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) and Amateur Radio
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

Unless this problem can be tackled BPL will just be another
"who cares about the pollution, it's profitable" industry.

My 2p worth, L. Ray Sunderlin

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment 
  that something else is more important than fear." 

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