Re: [Pen-l] smart grid question

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Max, I think you've nailed it.  The permanent temperature hypothesis.   
Sometimes you are too hot, sometimes freezing cold, but on average,  
just right.  So don't even bother heating or cooling your abode, just  
live with it and save the climate.

Gene

On Jun 8, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Max Sawicky wrote:

> The next-generation thermostats will solver your inter-temporal
> optimization problem, switching your heat and A/C on and off in
> response to price changes, in coordination with your tolerance for
> uncomfortably high or low temperatures, constrained by health, your
> lifetime income, and liquidity constraints.  Econ grad students are
> solving this problem as we speak.
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