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Could You Soon be Charged to Plug Into Public Outlets?

Mar. 16, 2012 3:27pm

Community power-up stations have been cropping up in public places like airports for years now. Conversations about public charging stations for electric vehicles is growing as well. But who is, or will, pay for this electricity? And what of “electrical theft?”

With these questions and energy conservation in mind, Sony has recently released prototype technology for an outlet that would recognize a user and charge them accordingly.

Sony Authentification Outlet Would Supply Power and Charge Certain Devices

Sony developed two types of “authentification outlets,” which were announced last month, one that uses contactless IC card technology and one that authenticates via a cable power supply. With such an outlet, power would only be supplied to authenticated equipment.

Here’s what Sony said about the outlet:

 Once these “Authentication Outlets” are widely implemented, users will be able to authenticate the owners of electrical devices (e.g. home electric appliances, electrical vehicles), manage and consume electricity on a per-device basis in addition to authorizing their use, keep records of past electricity usage, and finally have the ability to be charged and then process payments for their electricity consumption by combining the aforementioned features with electronic money payments.

Sony Authentification Outlet Would Supply Power and Charge Certain Devices

Watch this demonstration of the outlet from DigInfo TV:

On a larger scale, it is described in the demonstration that the technology can also help avoid blackouts by switching off non-vital equipment when demand is about to exceed supply.

Ars Technica explains that Sony sees a future for this in preventing “electricity theft” in, for example, the common area of an apartment building. Ars Technica reports that there is no commercial release planned for this technology yet. An official states that the company will be in conversations with the power supply industry and other manufacturers to eventually bring this prototype to fruition.

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  • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
    Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:22am

    Just wait and see the exorbitant rates poor shmucks will be charged.

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  • Aerocog
    Posted on March 17, 2012 at 2:33am

    Ugh, everything’s going to cost money in the future.

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  • 2smart4libs
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Can you say STATE CONTROL. ie amount, times, even who can and can’t use the outlets, this is nothing but bad news

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  • Less1leg
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:45pm

    Its absolutely frightening how the Green Movement is pushing manufacturers behind the scenes to clobber consumers for every device they own, every device on when they are plugged in, every device on how and when they are used according to time-of-day useage.
    It wouldn’t be much of switch to encorporate into the control units, NOPE ITS NOT YOUR TIME TO USE POWER. With Smart Metering, and government controlled energy grids. All you need is the Smart Device Plug connection with Blue Tooth technology to tell you that you cannot operate this machine, you have over consumed your ration of Green Energy. If you wish to purchase additional credits, Log On and submit your PayPal Credit Card. Fees of use though will be triple current market price and for one hour of use.

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:23pm

    Could You Soon be Charged to Plug Into Public Outlets?

    Does a bear shet in the woods/? and believe you me.. it will cost more than gas.. guaranteed.. what dumb arses we have in this world…

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    • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
      Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:25am

      You know it! you will have to pay an inflated electrical convenience rate. they will have all kinds of taxes applied additionally. You know there will be a carbon tax. There will also be a tax to provide the poor the ability to use the same outlets. SOCIAL JUSTICE! SOCIAL JUSTICE! SOCIAL JUSTICE!

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:02pm

    Small solar chargers for phones and laptops etc would come in handy as an option.

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  • conserv2011
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:29pm

    ya and some dipstick from the gov will convince saps willing to buy this device (hardware/software) and the installation cost… that it will pay for itself.. Huge ROI.. I can’t believe that this would save that much $$.. unless of course you are running an extension cord around the corner to power your living room/entertainment center from the bar… or charge your car for 8 hours a day while your at work………… A laptop.pfffffffft.. 2 or 3 cents… no one will tell me that it’s worth the cost.

    ………..unless they are planning to spike the cost of electricity conveniently at the same time.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 5:55pm

    WHAT? Electricity doesn’t just magically happen? Somebody has to pay for it? Somebody needs to tell Obama!!!!

    (Sarcasm Font)

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Ya know, you can always tell a fool anything you want.
      But you can’t tell him much.
      And there is no way to make a fool see logic, understand common sense, or know what sarcasm is.

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    • quiltgal
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 7:22pm

      Yes, those who are working will pay for it. Those who are not working will get it free. Eventually, those who are working and paying for it will realize it doesn’t pay to work.

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    • Farmer John
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:14pm

      Electricity DOES magically happen. You put pixie dust and algae into one end, and out comes free, green, electricity! Welcome to Amerika!

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  • Larry E
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 5:53pm

    What a heartbreaker for me, I recharge my cordless tool drills at home, and don’t have much else that needs recharging. Boo hoo.

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  • DividedWeFail
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:55pm

    Are they talking about those charge up car stations hogging the front of the DMV’s that are ALWAYS EMPTY OF CARS? Sadly, the DMV closet to me has a small parking lot but Tampa YOYO’s put 4 electric car parking slots in front of the building. There are more of them than handicapped parking. Since it is a corner lot DMV – no place to expand – so visitors forced to park across the street screwing those business owners.

    Our DMV SHARES a building with 2 PRIVATE companies (auto insurance – how convenient and what appears be a travel company since I have to walk past luggage/travel crap and the insurance company to get to the DVM at the back of building. Don’t know who owns the building but assume the Tampa gov’t does since no PRIVATE company would allow their customers to use their electricity FREE nor would they have installed 4 useless electric car parking slots .

    Hopefully those two private companies are paying enough in rent to cover all the DMV bills – electric/water/gas/property taxes so taxpayers are off the hook. However, it makes sense if you use someone’s electricity to charge your car – you pay for it. Otherwise taxpayers or someone will have that cost passed onto them.

    It’s enough these electric cars get thousands in tax rebates to buy them & MILLIONS in taxpayer subsidies AND people get to drive in the car pool lane when only 1 person is in car. CRONY capitalism is what exists today in the USA. . Our country is a shell of its constituti

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:26pm

    Progressive?????? these liberals are the most regressive back to the stone age for the middle class as they live in the 22nd century on all the money they chiseled out of you folks living in the stone age.

    Give them the royall screw in 2012 and vote in Paul or put the screw in their eyes, before they drag you off to a Fema or just off you right where you are standing for exposing them on a blog.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Going Amish is turning out to be more and more attractive every day….

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    • LouC57
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:49pm

      SREGN: Going Amish is turning out to be more and more attractive every day…._____

      Thought the same thing, then realized Google’s plan is to have facial recognition of every human on the planet…it won’t be long till they can place name/face. We’re screwed.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:57pm

      Bring it – they can take my photo from Mars – but they will be looking down the barrel of a Shotgun if they try to come and get me.

      I would rather be dead than live under a Nation violently ruled by Obama and the brutal vile left.

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    • Ohiogal4u
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 6:12pm

      Obama knew that…and so did his thugs! Or did they not perform due dilligence like they did with Closing Gitmo!! Remember, he got sworn in and he marched out for the world to see this new dictator-in-chief sign his FIRST official law — TO CLOSE GITMO! Well, here we are 3.5 years later and things are the same. What a moron! You can tell alot of his ideas come from other people because he does not have the skillset to follow-through and complete a task…he is use to others doing it! Well, his friends didn’t know a whole lot either! Now, we’re paying over $400K to have a soccer field put in there? Just where is the process of DUE DILLIGENCE with this administration?? Did they not “think” (opps, there’s a novel word) that electric outlets along the highways and byways will be needed for his little ole green cars to plug into? Opps! He does it again!

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:34pm

      He don’t even want to mess with the Amish. “I hear they have guns”

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:16pm

    Isn’t it the public who is paying for the electricity and the outlet, and the building in the first place? How many times are they going to charge us for this? Pretty soon, they will charge us for the air conditioning, the heating, the air that is consumed in public places. Maybe a turd tax will be next when we leave a deposit in a public restroom.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:33pm

      We’ll be given numbers like Borgs soon. We’ll be stored until some maintenance needs to be done for the oligarchy.

      The Borg were so egalitarian & boring, then we found out they had a queen (1% er).

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    • TheBurningTruth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:35pm

      You can just bet who will be getting ID cards to charge their use directly to the govt. It will start with govt employees. Remember those guys in the SEC reading PORN while the financial markets melted down? Or the guys in the Mining and Minerals department reading (again) PORN while BP polluted the Gulf? Yup, we’ll all be paying for THEIR PORN again. Because they’re so much more important than we are.

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    • youdidthis
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 6:41pm

      have it already…ss#’s

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:10pm

    Progressivism strikes again.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Energy is not Free… ever!

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    • TheBurningTruth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:39pm

      Really? If Barry and the Bandits can claim all these health care services are free (the reason my coverage went up 65% from last year) then why can’t we have free energy? We can just have Barry declare energy to be FREE like he does with all kinds of other things. Free health care! Free contraception! Free Barry-Bucks!

      Of course none of this is “free”. Don’t bother telling US that, tell Barry because his “free” programs are FAR WORSE than anything number of laptops charging at airports, and HE’S the one bankrupting the country.

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  • sizzler2220
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Now when you use your electric razor in a motel, they will be able to charge your home account for electricity used. Getting more like the money grubbing Europeans where women sell sheets of toilet paper in the restrooms along the ‘freeways.’

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    • Salamander
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Hmmmm, I thought those sheets were sold in hardware stores, under “Specialty Sand Papers”.

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  • BSimpson
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:01pm

    Step 1: Implement a pay for electricity system (PFES)
    Step 2: Let people become normalized to the new technology so they stop really paying attention to it
    Step 3: Develop Carbon tracking software driven systems while doing step 4 simultaneously.
    Step 4: Outlaw convential outlets like they did the incadescent bulb.
    Step 5: Implement carbon coupon system.
    Step 6: Bend the world over a barrel and take whatever it is that is left.

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  • TexBork
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:59pm

    “Public” Outlets? I’m not sure I’m against this actually. If the rate is equal to the rate of service provider itself, thus no profit nor tax added, then I say fine. That makes sense. Now, if it’s a “Private” Outlet. The user would have to agree to the terms of the outlet owner.

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  • youdidthis
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:59pm

    strange things are afoot at the circle k.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wb9r0UrKSNc#t=757s

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:51pm

    With the Marxist POS envisioning electricity rates skyrocketing and the Marxist heathen threatening to close down coal fired plants we won’t have any electricity to worry about much less pay for.Barrys answer is “green’ energy I call it brown energy it produces a loud sound then stinks real bad.

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  • youdidthis
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:45pm

    all control.

    search tesla free enegry.

    search who owns tesla’s pantents now.

    search which tesla patents have been implemented.
    tesla and FREE ENERGY inventor mysteriously died_ Why don_t we have .flv
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTG55WQnfTY&context=C47107d2ADvjVQa1PpcFNMRzNgHU7ndQQww3jxALqclOCrNgUpMtw=

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:42pm

    Not in my house. Public areas of privately owned buildings , this makes sense; if it is cost effective.

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  • ShyMan
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:42pm

    I don’t know why this hasn’t happened already.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:00pm

      Have been testing this on the ladies of the night lites
      in LA
      works good untill Wife opens your credit card bill…

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  • Joisey
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:41pm

    Or, how about businesses embrace VOIP teleconferencing and say FU to the airlines once and for all? Good luck staying in business without business travelers…cause the TSA is helping to boost tourist air travel sooo much these days, eh?

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:36pm

    First TSA, now taking away plugs, I wonder what else they will come up to make Air Travel even more hellish. At least they took away the bad airline food and peanuts.

    Airports will probably take away the seats at the terminal next, but rent you one for a nominal fee.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:06pm

      Nothing would surprise me .. a friend just flew back from a visit .. yes she forgot her sunscreen was in her bag .. gone (TSA “surrender”). She had shopped here .. we knew that her bag would be overweight we looked up the fee $90 … it was $25 for up to 50 lbs for first bag .. and $35 for a second bag .. so we went and bought her a second bag .. savings $30. You have to check everything that they are charging for and what the charges are and then travel accordingly. OR stay home and avoid the hassel .. which is what I am doing.. not even driving this year .. with gas prices so high and could skyrocket at any minute.

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:22pm

      Have friends who work at Newark Int’l airport..they state flat out that TSA employees keep everything they ‘confiscate’. They all laugh about it and think its funny. Ask TSA what they do with the stuff and you’ll get a BS round about answer…petty thieves.

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