If you haven't yet had a smart meter installed by your electric provider, perhaps this is a way to stop them from doing so.
Good for him, my house was new with one of these, I didn’t have a choice. No one should consent.
It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “Smart Meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine..........sexual activities
Wow looks like the sales of battery powered vibrators will pick up.
I think you’re freaking out over nothing.
You should worry when you, or they, start installing “smart* *appliances* in your home.
Until then, what can they do? There’s NO WAY to selectively enable/disable/control individual power draws. All they could to is cut you off completely. And they aren’t gonna do that.
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Someone please explain to me how you discern sexual activity with the information gathered by a smart meter. I am sorry, but paraniod crap like this gives the tea party a bad name.
Lately I’ve been hearing local chatter suggesting that my electric company has switched from 60Hz to 40Hz and that its causing problems.
I don’t even know if such a thing is possible or whether I would even notice. Hopefully some knowledgeable FReeper has some info.
I do know that myself and plenty of my neighbors are noticing dimming lights and what seems to be an extraordinary rate of electric appliance failures.
Unfortunately here in Texas, with our bought-off governor, the concept of privacy DOES NOT EXIST.
No one in our 2/3rds REPUBLICAN legislature has lifted a finger with regard to “Smart Meters”. They are being shoved down our throats, thanks to RICK PERRY, and if we refuse, we get to see the business end of a Constable’s side arm.
I get jealous of California. They STILL don’t pay sales tax on Amazon (we just got signed up for it - thank you state government), and they don’t don’t even pay sales tax on Net10 Wireless cell phones (we do, of course).
So, while California forced an opt-out - our lackeys in state government, including David Dewhurst at the top of the list (a Perry bitch), made sure that we wouldn’t get that option.
...and there’s even a thread today about Texas succeeding from the US - LOL, with this bunch the only reason they could come up with for leaving the US would be to take the honor of being the 32nd Mexican state.
Since our empty nest mrs p6 and I moved to a really nice apartment complex a couple of years ago. I assume we have no choice BUT is there a way to ...obfuscate the readings and confuse the meter?
For example when my company built it’s HQ they screwed up the HVAC. At least 4 units were required but the owner said do it with 3.
There were always problems.
At night, when I am usually the only one there the a/c ran continuously. It would get so cold I could see my breath. The a/c even ran in the coldest of winters.
Some of us complained and management put portable sensors in every room to prove we were wrong.
After a couple of days I gathered the sensors every night when I arrived and put them in the refrigerator or freezer.
Admittedly it didn’t really solve the problem. Management told us to deal with it.
BUT it had them so confused for over a year it was worth it!
Finally they realized undersizing the units was costing them money and things are much better now.
This letter is about 20% misinformation and 80% utter BS. Those who are concerned about this issue should A) educated themselves on the technical issues involved and B) re-read their agreement with their electrical utility provider as it should spell out the consequences of taking actions described in this letter, which will most likely result in termination of electrical service.
No one has an innate “right” to electrical service, it is provided under terms of an agreement between the utility and the consumer, and just like any other purchase, is subject to legal regulations. There are more productive avenues than tilting at windmills that will accomplish nothing.
Most smart meters do only one thing: send a meter reading to the utility every 15 minutes. The rest of what the letter claims is imaginary.
For the most part, there’s nothing wrong with smart meters as far as their function is concerned, but there were some that were manufactured with defects.
There are possible security concerns for this type of equipment that could be hacked, and also more concerns for government control. Right now, the power company charges you a flat rate, but in the future could charge you different rates at different times of the day.
My biggest objection is that billions of dollars in stimulus money were used to purchase and install these smart meters, and in addition to that, I believe the electric company is also allowed to charge the customer to install something they may not want or need.
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Didn’t have a choice. Our meters are outside of the house.
Both gas and electric companies said I had no choice and one of them cost me a 1,000 bucks after the electricity was shut down in my house a couple of days later after they installed.
I have a digital meter that can be communicated with by my utility. They are installed for reasons most persons would not even think about. They are thinking as a utility. They have tens of thousands of customers and lets say a storm hits. They can tell real fast what streets, what homes, what businesses including hospitals nursing homes, etc do and do not have power.
This is a manpower saving system to get your lights back on ASAP. Power companies in emergency mode work like this. They take a large area that out. The chances are it can be a breaker at their substation or on their line. This tells them where to start rather than driving around and wasting time having to look. They get the maximum on as quickly as possible then focus on more local and isolated outages.
The advantage? A tree might fall in your driveway while you are on vacation and knock out your power. You come home a week or two later to find you have no power. This happens a lot in rural areas. This was the system which doesn't get a ping from the meter {much like how your cell phone works} can tell the utility communication is lost.
My power was out last year. I live in a very rural area on a dead end road. My neighbors all 4 houses were gone so I couldn't ask if they were out also. Usually the tap fuse for the line coming up our road blows out. This time I called and the on call guy {after hours} said yea your power is out but your neighbors isn't. So the guy they sent knew to come up straight to my house and check the transformer fuse. It has disconnected itself. This saved him 30 minutes of having to follow the wires up our road.
All the meter does is pings to the system and reports once a month my total usage. On my system I'm not sure it pings the utility all the time or just when they ask like for billing or to check outages.
I can see their reasoning behind this type of system looking at it from a troubleshooting stand point.
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