Agenda 21 – Global Smart Grid
November 15,
2012 by ppjg
Technocracy’s Endgame: Global Smart Grid
“There is a new world wide web emerging
right before our eyes. It is a global energy network and, like the
internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business.
More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy.” – Terrawatts.com
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Introduction
The dark
horse of the
New World Order is not Communism,
Socialism or Fascism: It is Technocracy.
The development
and implementation of Smart Grid technology in the U.S. – reinventing
the electrical grid with Wifi-enabled digital power
meters – is proceeding at breakneck speed. Although Smart Grid is the
result of years of government planning, the recent kickoff was made possible
through massive “green”
grants that were quietly included in President
Obama’s economic stimulus package starting in 2009.
These lucrative
grants have drawn in a host of corporate players, from utility companies to
digital meter manufacturers to control software vendors. Global companies
like IBM, GE and Siemens are putting their full effort behind the “build-out”
that will consolidate all of America into a single, integrated,
communication-enabled electric delivery and monitoring system, collectively
called Smart Grid.
Proponents
of Smart Grid
claim that it will empower the consumer
to better manage his or her power consumption and hence, costs. The utility
companies will therefore be more efficient in balancing power loads and
requirements across diverse markets.
However,
like carnival barkers, these Smart Grid hocksters
never reveal where or how SmartGrid came into being,
nor what the ultimate endgame aims to achieve; perhaps most of them have no
idea either, but simply repeat the mantra as if they know what they are talking
about.
In
SmartGrid: The Implementation of Technocracy?, I revealed the background
of both Technocracy and Smart Grid, and most importantly, the links between
them. Smart Grid is born out of Technocracy and not the other way around.
Technocracy
is a totalitarian system of government where scientists, engineers and
technicians monitor and control all facets of personal and civic life – economic,
social and political. Herein lies the real danger:
Who are these unelected controllers and why should anyone believe that they
would be benevolent dictators instead of tyrants? Americans are a
freedom-loving people who would certainly reject Technocracy’s stealth
takeover, if only they were aware of it. Indeed, Americans did
pointedly
reject Technocracy in the 1930′s!
Thirty years
ago, a researcher’s mantra was “Follow the money, follow the power.” This must
now be restated: “Follow the energy, follow the power.”
Requirements
In 1932, Technocracy,
Inc. called for the destruction of price-based economic systems and the creation
of an energy-based accounting system that would measure inputs and outputs of
human activity in terms of energy production, distribution and consumption.
The requirements for a successful system was co-authored by M. King Hubbert, a young geophysicist who later developed “Hubbert’s Peak Oil Theory” that provided intellectual
backing for the modern environmental or “green” movement.
Specifically,
Hubbert detailed the requirements for a successful
implementation of Technocracy:
“Register
on a continuous 24 hour-per-day basis the total net conversion of
energy.
“By means
of the registration of energy converted and consumed, make possible
a balanced load.
“Provide
a continuous inventory of all production and consumption
“Provide
a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services,
where produced and where used
“Provide
specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a
record and description of the individual.”
[Scott, Howard et al,
Technocracy Study Source, p. 232]
Of course,
the technology to fulfill these requirements did not exist in 1932. However,
it is worth noting that Technocracy Inc.’s leadership was intimately
familiar with the early work of International Business Machine’s
(IBM) computing technology. They clearly envisioned a time in the future
where the advancement of the technology would meet the minimum level necessary
to implement these requirements.
That day of
advanced technology has come and the project is now called Smart Grid. The
endgame is to implement a modernized version of historic Technocracy on
a national, continental and global basis.
It is
strongly recommended that the reader carefully review
SmartGrid: The Implementation of Technocracy and Carbon Currency: A New Beginning
for Technocracy? to
gain a solid perspective on the historical aspect of Technocracy.
Some would
argue that it is mere coincidence that these requirements are fully met with
Smart Grid technology. However, the reasons for the existence of Technocracy
in the 1930′s are the same reasons given
today: Energy efficiency, load balancing, fairness, alleviating poverty
and hunger, etc.
The feigned
concern for those in poverty and hunger in the underdeveloped nations is
hollow. Technocracy is pointedly amoral in its practice: The means (their
scientific method/process) justifies the end, whatever the end might turn
out to be.
Going Global
In addition
to the United States, Smart Grid is being implemented in both Canada and
Mexico. Planners are working on standards that will integrate all of North
America into a single, unified Smart Grid system.
Moreover,
there is a serious initiative underway to create a Global Smart Grid
that will integrate all the continents on the globe!
The Global
Energy Network Institute (GENI) presents this Dymaxion ™ Map of the world from the perspective of the
North Pole that reveals the global grid currently under construction. The
only part of planet earth left untouched is Antarctica. The yellow lines represent
high-voltage electrical transmission links that are capable of transferring
large amounts of energy from continent to continent.
The GENI project is gathering momentum and is endorsed by the
Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) and Noel
Brown (North American Director, United Nations Environmental Program), the
United Nations and by the governments of Canada New Zealand, Switzerland,
and China, among others.
The nature of
the global grid is revealed on the Terrawatts
website:
“There is a
new world wide web emerging right before our eyes. It is a global energy network
and, like the Internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business.
More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy.
“There is no
energy supply problem, there is an energy distribution problem, and the
emerging solution is a new world wide web of electricity.”
The concept
of a Network of Things was presented in “Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?”
As the traditional Internet connects people (e.g., Facebook,
e-mail, videos, web sites), the Energy Web will connect inanimate objects
like thermostats, appliances, meters, station controllers, data collection
and control computer systems, etc. for the automatic balancing of load consumption
across the target power grid. Once computer programs and algorithms are in
place, such a grid will operate autonomously with minimal human intervention. --
Genesis of
Global Smart Grid: R. Buckminster Fuller
The GENI website credits the late R. Buckminster Fuller
(1895 – 1983) as the
conceptual father and designer of the global energy network. In his 1982
book, Critical Path, Fuller wrote,
“This world
electric grid, with its omni-integrated advantage,
will deliver its electric energy anywhere, to anyone, at any one time, at one
common rate. This will make a world-around uniform costing and pricing system
for all goods and services based realistically on the time-energy metabolic
accounting system of Universe.
“In this
cosmically uniform, common energy-value system for all humanity, costing
will be expressed in kilowatt-hours, watt-hours and watt-seconds of work.
Kilowatt-hours will become the prime criteria of costing the production of
the complex of metabolic involvements per each function or item. These uniform
energy valuations will replace all the world’s wildly intervarying,
opinion-gambled-upon, top-power-system-manipulatable
monetary systems. The time-energy world accounting system will do away with
all the inequities now occurring in regard to the arbitrarily maneuverable
international shipping of goods and top economic power structure’s
banker-invented, international balance-of-trade accountings. It will eliminate
all the tricky banking and securities-markets exploitations of all the
around-the-world-time-zone activities differences in operation today, all
unbeknownst to the at-all-times two billion humans who are sleeping.”
If this
sounds familiar, it should: It is an unvarnished re-hash of 1930′s-style Technocracy, except on a global,
versus continental, scale. Electricity is delivered equally to all, and the
the price-based economic system is replaced by a “time-energy world accounting
system” based on kilowatt-hours, watt-hours and watt-seconds.
There is no
evidence that such a system will ever work, but that hasn’t stopped global
groups from rushing headlong into this global initiative. Take, for instance,
the World Economic Forum…
World Economic
Forum and Climate Change
If a skeptic
were to question the seriousness of organizations like Terrawatts and GENI, they should
consider that the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF)
has thrown its collective weight behind the initiative. It has managed to
link the advancement of Smart Grid to the reduction of carbon emissions,
thus promising a tangible way to fight global warming.
Founded in
1971, the WEF meets annually in Davos,
Switzerland. Attendees are mostly the “who’s who” of the global elite.
The WEF presented a major progress report in January 2011
titled, “Energy Industry Partnership Programme“:
“Accelerating
Successful Smart Grid Pilots, a World Economic Forum report developed with
Accenture and industry experts, sets out the centrality of smart grids as
key enablers for a low-carbon economy and in response to increasingly growing
energy demands. Over 60 industry, policy and regulatory stakeholders were
engaged in the Accelerating Successful Smart Grid Pilots report, to identify
the factors that determine the success, or otherwise, of smart grid
pilots… There is an opportunity to launch the next wave of development
towards
a lower carbon energy system, and successful
smart grid pilots will be a key step in this process.”
Mark Spelman, Global Head of Strategy at Accenture, participated
in the WEF’s Smart Grid Workshop in 2010. When asked
the question, “What value can Smart Grid add in the next 30 years?”, Spelman replied, “Smart
Grids are absolutely fundamental if we are going to achieve some of our climate
change objectives. Smart Grids are the glue, they are the energy internet of
the future and they are the central component which is going to bring demand
and supply together.“
Spelman may not call himself a Technocrat, but he certainly
uses the language of Technocracy like a pro.
The IEEE Standards
Association
The global
energy network, or Smart Grid, will operate according to universally
accepted engineering standards that make data and energy flows compatible
with each other. Who will supply such standards? The venerable Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE
The IEEE
claims that it is “the world’s largest professional association dedicated
to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of
humanity.” Founded in 1884, it has been involved with electricity standards
and development since Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Today, however,
the IEEE is massively global, with 395,000 members in 160 countries and it
supports approximately 900 active standards in various fields of engineering
and electronics.
As it states
on its Smart Grid website, the IEEE has staked its claim, in clear language,
on the global energy initiative:
“There’s no
global organization to oversee all nations’ energy systems transformations’
it is a vast movement and it’s in its infancy. With our 38 societies and
seven councils
IEEE is positioned to lead the smart
grid initiative. Through them and our 395,000 members, who work in the
world’s academic, government and private sectors, IEEE touches virtually
every aspect of the smart grid.
“We leverage
our strong foundation and inclusive collaboration to evolve standards,
share best practices, publish developments and provide related educational
offerings to further the smart grid. We are at the forefront of advancing
technology and facilitating successful deployments throughout the world.
Working hand in hand with other leading organizations to create one set of
standards for the smart grid is the way
we can ensure success.”
IEEE’s bravado is not unwarranted:
It truly is the only global organization capable of such a monumental
task. When given the challenge to unify the global energy network, 395,000
engineers should be enough to complete the mission!
The IEEE Student Branch at Northern
Illinois University notes in their
About Page, “IEEE has managed to bring
technocrats from all over the world on a single platform.” Indeed.
Conclusion
Technocracy is a collectivist,
utopian political-economic system run by engineers, scientists and technicians.
It has the potential to be far more oppressive and controlling than Communism,
Socialism or Fascism. Without Smart Grid, we are assured that there will be no
rule of Technocracy.
Much more needs to be said, but this report seeks to highlight the following:
Technocracy, Inc.
was the birth place of the energy-based economic-political model seen
behind national, regional, continental and global Smart Grid initiatives
R. Buckminster
Fuller, a Technocrat at heart, pioneered the design for a Global energy
network that is now referred to as “the new World Wide Web of
Electricity”
All of Technocracy, Inc.’s original requirements for an
energy-based system are process of being met
Global organizations
like the World Economic Forum and the IEEE Standards Organization are
fully backing and enabling the global Smart Grid
The global Smart Grid
and global warming movements are interdependent
It is not clear who will oversee any
or all facets of the global Smart Grid. The implied suggestion is that it
will be the same engineers and global corporations that are currently
developing it. There is no suggestion anywhere in literature that there
is a plan for a hand-off of the resulting system to a political structure
that serves the people.
The negative aspects of Smart Grid
are seldom menioned. Take cyber-security, for instance. Picture a tech-savvy
criminal who breaks into your energy profile data by hacking the computers
at your local substation: Based on your power usage, he knows when you are
home and when you are not home, when you are awake and when you are asleep,
whether you have a security system turned on or off, etc. Armed with such
information, your possessions and personal safety would be at his
disposal.
With the global groundswell of
activity to create the global Smart Grid, it is doubtful that the initiative
can be stopped, especially since it is so closely intertwined with the global
warming movement and hence, Sustainable Development and even the United
Nation’s Agenda 21 program.
In the United States, Smart Grid is
escalating without any legislative oversight or involvement; in other
words, it is being implemented exclusively by Executive Branch fiat. The
same is true in other countries.
The original Technocracy, Inc. was
successful for a season due in part to the bone-crushing pressure of the
Great Depression. The Great Depression II currently underway will almost certainly
sponsor renewed cat-calls that “Capitalism is dead” and pleas for a new
system to replace it. The only system waiting in the wings, so to speak, is
Technocracy, and its enabling infrastructure is the new World Wide Web of
Energy.
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