Power Grid Bandwidth = ZERO (Score 5)

C'mon guys. Don't you recognize a scam when you see it. The power companies have been trying for DECADES to find a way to get information to flow over the power grids(I know because I was working on this problem for a power company in 1979). They could save 50% of their operating budget if they didn't have to visit your house to read your meter. OF COURSE you can send a signal over a copper wire, DUHHH!!! This is NEWS? But high frequency (multiple 100's of Mhz and up) signals won't stay on an unsheilded wire, it just acts like an antenna. And even if the wires themselves weren't unsheilded noise-ridden super-antennas, there's always the problem of the TRANSFORMERS. Huge blocks of metal with big coils around them. They are an incredibly efficient high-frequency blocking filter. The high-frequency information bandwidth through a transformer is precisely ZERO point ZERO bits per second. Another tip-off that the article is either a JOKE or a SCAM is the data rate that is mentioned. Exo-bits? Ten to the eighteenth power bits/sec??? That's a frequency somewhere between ultra-violet light and X-rays. You can't send that kind of signal over a copper wire, it would boil the electrons off the atoms. Don't they teach even rudimentary Physics in our schools anymore?