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Re:The Lowly Thermostat, Now Minter of Megawatts by rgbrenner on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:34PM (#7786310)
$85 per household in the US is nearly $10billion.. and $15/yr is $1.75B/yr

The article only says the utilities will save 'billions'.. so this may be fair or not.. without additional info, how can you say?

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Re:The Lowly Thermostat, Now Minter of Megawatts by lutorm on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:22PM (#7786638)
I mean a onetime reward against an ongoing saving has to become unfair at some point in time.
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Re:The Lowly Thermostat, Now Minter of Megawatts by maaku on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:50PM (#7787054)
Are you sure? An up-front payout has a time-value preference, of course.
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