In a world gone crazy, teetering on the brink of economic chaos, with
thousands dying every day at the hands of rogue governments, wars being
fought over precious natural resources and the young losing hope in the
future, you have to wonder how smart meters became the No. 1 issue for
so many.
Smart meters?
You know, the glass encased digital
meters that have recently been installed outside your home or apartment
in Burbank and Glendale and in much of California. These automated
devices are supposed to help you manage your use of water and power to
reduce your costs and conserve these precious resources to help make the
planet greener.
Did you know those meters send out a continuous
stream of radio signals to you and your utility — electro-magnetic radio
frequency waves that can give you cancer and kill you? That they are
just the power companies playing a dirty trick so that they can charge
you a lot more money? That smart meters are a sinister invasion of our
privacy, part of a “Big Brother” conspiracy that goes back decades to
take control of your mind and the world?
Those kinds of concerns
brought nearly 170 people out to the Glendale Moose Lodge for most of
three hours Thursday night to hear a panel of experts who are highly
critical of the multi-billion-dollar rollout of smart meters in the
state and across the nation and to share their own fears, concerns and
experiences.
Some of those people talked about how they got
terrible headaches and other symptoms almost immediately after smart
meters were installed, how they’ve been suffering pain so severe they’re
sleeping in their cars.
Some have tried wrapping their heads in
tin foil to deflect the electro-magnetic fields that inundate our bodies
from every direction, from cell phones, from our own and our neighbors’
wireless routers, from microwaves, TVs, computers and from all the
other electrical devices that surround us.
And now smart meters
send out their signals every hour of every day to relay devices and cell
towers to computers at utility offices.
Are these people kooks,
the 1% who think darkly about just about everything, living in fear,
victims of future shock? Or are the 99% of us just so uninformed and
passive that we are allowing this to go on without even asking a single
question?
I am clearly among the ignorant 99%, which was why I
accepted the invitation to moderate the Smart Meter Forum when event
organizer Kiku Lani Iwata of Burbank Action called me.
Silly me. I thought those meters were only for the personal use of the utility customer to monitor their water and power usage. I didn’t realize that the info was fed back to the utility.
And what good does the info do them except to charge us more money for the installation and the power to run them?
Increased or decreased usage doesn’t tell them squat about us. Increased water usage can be anything from construction to a leaky toilet to inviting the 5th Fleet over to partake in the pleasures of the hot tub.
Likewise, decreased usage can be anything from a household member moving out to a vacation to illness where you’re just too tired to go outside and turn on the sprinklers.
As far as the EMFs causing cancer, we can’t win that battle as long as from infancy on “they” are killing us with poisoned water, food, air and plastics.
What’s the first thing they do when a baby is born? They shove a plastic pacifier in their mouth to shut them up. Don’t they know that’s why we were given thumbs?
How much do we have to pay for those meters?
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In a world gone crazy, teetering on the brink of economic chaos, with thousands dying every day at the hands of rogue governments, wars being fought over precious natural resources and the young losing hope in the future, you have to wonder how smart meters became the No. 1 issue for so many.”
How about Justice and Peace instead?
In a world gone crazy, teetering on the brink of economic chaos, with thousands dying every day at the hands of rogue governments, wars being fought over precious natural resources and the young losing hope in the future, you have to wonder how smart meters became the No. 1 issue for so many.
We need PEACE AND JUSTICE, should we not
see those first before energy?
SMART METERS ARE ONLY GOOD FOR UTILITY COMPANY EXECUTIVES
Concepts and theory sounds great, but upon closer inspection:
A. Utility bills are increasing where smart meters are installed, not decreasing.
B. Customer information from smart meters is NOT formatted for customers and does NOT change customer behavior towards conservation.
C. Increased utility rates may decrease energy usage, but that can be done with inexpensive time-of-use meters, NOT requiring expensive smart meters.
D. The cost – benefit of smart meters is horrendous and is being promoted to profit the utility companies and their suppliers, not customers or our society or our environment.
E. The Smart Grid does NOT use or require a smart meter on each home. The necessary smart information can be gathered much more efficiently and timely and inexpensively at energy distribution points. (The smart grid does not care how much power any one home uses.)
F. The vast amount of unnecessary and nearly useless information to be handled and stored may actually end up raising energy usage.
G. This massive Billions-of-dollars smart meter program will leave NO funds for programs that would truly bring energy saving solutions and the public will not be receptive to real solutions after being burned by these Smart meters.
More FUD and misinformation
All a revenue meter does is measure energy consumption. Normally a meter reader has to hop your fence and read the faceplate. With a digital meter, the energy can be transmitted back wirelessly so meter readers aren’t needed, period.
And to RobertWilliams,
A. Utility bills are increasing in general because of AB32, not because of smart meters. The smart grid work that is going on is actually being paid for by the Federal government, not your bill.
B. Customer information is formatted for two recipients – the customer who owns the house, and the utility who provides electicity. You can have a meter that caters to one of these recipients or both and you need to make this distinction.
C. A time of use meter and a smart meter are the SAME EXACT THING. “Time of use,” the ability to have a rate that changes throughout the day, is what makes the meter smart.
D. The point of a smart meter is to help balance load to counter energy market fluctuations. Electricity costs the most during the day and is cheap at night. Naturally if a customer decides to consume more electricity at night than during the day, he should be rewarded with a lower rate.
E. Smart Grid is the use of technology to improve service and reliability throughout the whole power grid – generation, transmission, distribution, and the customer. Not just one at the expense of the another.
F. You need to learn the difference between energy usage and data storage.
G. No clue what energy saving solutions you’re talking about or if they even exist.
Yeah, you guys might as well throw away your wi-fi routers and cell phones since they also emit RF microwave radiation.
And privacy concerns? I don’t think anyone cares how many KWH you use, you’re not that important. And if they did, they could just go to your house and look at your meter, which is in plain view for the world to see.
Dumbasses.