Wrong metal...
Posted on 05/07/2013 4:05:52 AM PDT by RightSideNews
“...smart meters and cell towers produce microwaves that go out in all directions and immerse the body in RFR which increases the risk of overexposure to sensitive organs such as the eyes and testicles.”
Perfect! Load up the big city liberal bastions, and sterilize em!
Every once in a while I get the urge to hook up solar panels and a full house battery system. I'll then set up a constant trickle charge to cover my average electricity usage rather than drawing from the grid when I need power.
I've also started using a lot more cash for transactions to keep the credit card companies from being able to track everything I do.
I think the big thing the power companies want to be able to do is have dynamic pricing so they can charge more on hot afternoons and the current price during nights (charge less than the current price at night? hahahahhahaah!) Unfortunately like most dynamic pricing systems they will be far too dynamic so you will never be able to plan ahead and most will just end up paying more.
Well, our installation isn't "truly" a "smart meter", at least not for the whole house. Ours is attached ONLY to the water heater.
We are in an odd situation.....I live on an island in Puget Sound. The island's electricity is supplied by two main trunks, one of which is an ancient submarine cable, and the other of which runs along the bridge to the island. With the opening of the second Narrows bridge, our once rural area is transitioning to "bedroom community" status, and the population has gone up quite a bit....stressing the electricity supply, especially during the winter months.
Our rural coop is installing a major new submarine cable link, but until that is done, they wanted the option to shed load during peak periods so as to avoid various sorts of "blackouts". The coops tech guys identified the water heaters as the biggest house load that can be remotely switched with minimum inconvenience to the homeowners.
Hence our "sort of bright" meters. Last winter we saw no effects from the remote-controlled meter....we had no notable differences in our hot water supply availability.
Ah - this old tripe.
I thought the article would address the dangers of giving the power company the ability to control your power consumption for those that must have electricity (to keep medicines cool, for example).
The only place I’ve ever been in where I felt like I was being radiated was at a little church in WV which had big HV power lines passing right overhead. We found that if you stood outside and held one metal end of a 4-foot fluorescent bulb, it lit up quite nicely.
Wrong metal...
“In my area there is no opt out right now, it is involuntary and constant...”
My area has an opt out, but the power company then charges you directly for having someone come and physically read your meter. Either way you lose.
The pole where I get my electricity is about 350 feet from my house, and the nearest house is over a quarter-mile away. Also, I work in RF, and the 2.4 Ghz spectrum is so overly populated now it’s ridiculous, putting something “mission critical” in that spectrum is suicide.
My power meter is about one and one half feet from where you would sit on my front room couch. It’s not on the other side of the garage where I would like it to be. I opted out of the Smart Meter and so now I pay an extra ten or twenty a month because someone has to come and actually read the meter each month.
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