>>96811
>how are they going to force every single pm in the peloton to read the same
If they're not utterly insane, they would only look for suspicious changes in power data over time, so absolute numbers being comparable across the peloton wouldn't be important and some constant error wouldn't be a problem. Though the power meter would still have to perform consistently over a long period of time and under different environmental conditions (IIRC some power meters are affected by temperature, for example), so you probably would need some kind of calibration anyway.
In any case, I don't see how they can reasonably ensure the authenticity of the data. Seems like something that would be trivial to tamper with.