Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06732
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:12:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Was: What do I Need?
> In a message dated 10/13/99 10:48:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> richfile@rconnect.com writes:
>
> > If you can find them at a dump or ask the utility
> > company what is done with damaged ones... Might be worth while. I've
> > never asked, and I don't know if they'd be cooperative.
> I'm not sure they would. It seems to me I remember someone saying that the
> power companies considered those meters extremely proprietary. They guard
the
> technology like a soft drink formula. They are paranoid of someone
figuring
> out the mechanism and letting the word out on how to cheat the power
> companies. That's probably why everything BUT the meter can be installed
by a
> sub contractor. Your local power company may be different, which is why
your
> school has so many meters. It would be interesting to see what they say
when
> you ask for surpluses.
>
>
> See ya,
> Jim
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
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