This is so much bullshit!
Radio waves have been around for a loooooong time. Now, suddenly they’re causing problems? Hello?
“RF disease”?? That article is ridiculous.
. . .Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr.(Al)Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.
Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.
The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environment/03gore.html?_r=4
We have a meter that can be read from the street with a device. Meter reader doesn’t have to come onto my property, open the gate and go behind the garage where the meter is located. Is this what they are calling a smart meter?
People complaining about getting rashes from radio tower that wasn't hooked up to anything.
We received this e-mail and the photo above from a concerned woman the other day:
I live in a large apt complex. all 180 meters are about 12 feet below my living room window. do you think the first step would be to have someone come take a reading of the radio frequency output?
We had a mayor a few years back unseat a "good Old Boy" mayor who was buddies with the City Employees and their Union.
The New Mayor ran on a platform of Financial Responsibility. One of the things he vowed to change was the way the City Employees Union had ran they city (The Good Old Boy Mayor gave them anything they wanted.)
Water Bills were a big deal. He and the council decided to go with smart meters which enabled a single employee to drive through town in a single day and collect the data thus freeing up him for the rest of the week and eliminating the need for a second guy reading meters. (The job used to take two guys all week long to work)
Well the fight was on. The union howled and whined and fought the mayor on every front. Another bone of contention was paying garbage men 8 hours wages for a four hour day.
Well it ended up that the meters wouldn't work right.
Time after time people's water bills either were way too high or the meter would not work at all.
Grievances, lawsuits, and even fisticuffs ensued. Finally the Union managed to sully the Mayor's rep so bad he didn't even run for reelection.
This was a few years back. Now after a criminal investigation we find out that the reason the Union fought so hard on the water bill was that the employees were giving away free water to many People for reduced cash AND Oxycontin and Percocet and Xanex. Also it was found out the City workers Sabotaged the Smart Water Meters so they could hide their drug and money making scheme.
As an RF engineer, and a designer of the smart meters in question, I can tell you that putting your cell phone up to your skull exposes you to thousands of times the RF field strength that a 1/4-watt RF transmitter in your electric/water/gas meter outside your home does.
My company does extensive testing on each and every type of meter we produce, determining the RF exposure. In fact, we are compelled by the FCC to do so. As long as you keep your brain 20cm from the meter when it is transmitting (which is usually about every 4 hours at the most), YOU ARE FINE.
All the rest of it is psychosomatic.
Anyone believing this, raise you hand. I have some excellent protective field devices that can be installed in individual rooms for $199.99 each (plus shipping and handling) that are guaranteed to work at protecting you from this rf. Try them for 90 days, and if you're not satisfied I'll refund your charges.
I wish they wouldn't go down this road. It makes them seem like quacks & idiots.
You cannot escape EMFs in this Universe. Even sunlight is an EMF.
Just had one installed, may be too late to ask, but can they turn off our power remotely with one of those things? Say I have window air conditioners and they think we’re using too much energy?