Smart meters = tip of the iceberg
RF foes claim electro-smog is killing us
In the high desert in northwestern Colorado, bentonite clay abounds. A soaking rain means trouble. When you walk on wet bentonite, it builds up on the sole of your shoe until it's nearly impossible to walk. And roads become "impassable."
I mention this factoid to illustrate what it's like these days when you write about interval or "smart" meters. It's akin, in so many words, to "stepping in it." First, it's assumed that most interval meters are sending and receiving data wirelessly. (A fair assumption.) Second, for what appears to be an increasing number of people and "organizations" (quotation marks here because it's impossible to tell the difference between an individual and an "organization" on the Web), that means that the nation's power utilities have become merchants of death.
I'm not sure whether that line is likely to elicit a wry smile or a rueful smile. In either case, keep smiling, as you may need to scrape some, uh, bentonite clay off your shoes.
Yesterday I wrote about the digital meter opt-out option in Vermont, in "Vermont and the Opt-Out Provision."
We received numerous posts to the article forum, from advice to utilities on articulating the meter value proposition to extolling the wisdom of Vermont's opt-out option to objections to the cost of meters and their perceived low value to the consumer. Several folks wrote privately; one to offer a paper entitled "No Health Threat from Smart Meters" and two to offer explanations for why interval meters indeed threaten us all.
In "No Health Threat from Smart Meters," which appeared in the Fourth Quarter 2010 issue of UTC Journal (Utilities Telecom Council), author Klaus Bender, director of standards and engineering at UTC, succinctly describes the following topics in 8 pages:
- Why interval meters on modern grids
- The federal role in evaluating the safety of RF devices
- Federal Communication Commission mandates on RF exposure and its impact on humans
- The impact of RF energy on humans
- Meter reading system configurations
Bender told me yesterday that a specific utility member of UTC asked for guidance in addressing the backlash on interval meters and their alleged impacts on human health. The paper was generalized to be useful to all utilities.
In the paper, Bender concluded: "So when confronted with complaints that say smart meters cause a variety of health effects, ask the complainant to produce the science to support the claim. The conversation should end shortly thereafter."
Ah, an engineer's solution—so logical. If only that were true! Actually, that's the beginning of the conversation. First, the objectors will say that the science on this topic is just beginning to escape the clutches of industry influence and that fledgling, peer-reviewed science now documents that low-level, non-ionizing RF energy can mix-and-match your DNA, is slowly baking all of us to premature deaths and that electrosensitivity is real and that forcing "smart meters" on us all is an unconscionable act that causes barbaric suffering.
The more rational folks in the anti-meter movement—and make no mistake, this is a movement to be taken seriously—are also campaigning for cell phone warnings. But for the most part, the movement is focused only on interval meters.
I'll just say that if those opposed to interval meters limit their focus to those devices alone, that undercuts their argument. (At first I wrote that that argument is "conveniently dishonest and morally bankrupt," but I'll let you decide whether gentle or not-so-gentle is appropriate here.) If the opponents of low-level, non-ionizing, low-frequency RF emitted by interval meters really believe that that's harmful, then they should be opposed to the use of radios in any setting. The argument that "cell phones are voluntary" and meters are involuntary doesn't wash. Radio frequencies are everywhere. Even if you rid yourself of cell phones, microwave ovens, Wi-Fi routers and the like, your neighborhood and every public place including the backcountry is awash in what opponents like to call "electrosmog."
It's disingenuous to argue that meters are hazardous and not take the fight all the way. So, if wireless meters go, so do radios, TVs, cell phones, laptops, airplanes and, by extension, national defense and modern commerce. It's that simple. And we haven't begun to discuss data privacy and interval meters.
When one opponent of wireless interval meters said that hundreds of complainants can't be wrong, that there must be something about interval meters causing symptoms due to the mere numbers of complaints, I could only cite the history of popular folly, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, published in 1841. And I tried to keep smiling.
Here's a smattering of websites dedicated to stopping smart meters for a variety of reasons. I'll say this: these folks are way better organized than the power industry, they are creating converts every day and they're not going to stop with a puny opt-out option.
http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/11/11/smart-meters-tip-iceberg
Studies in irony: You are "stepping in it" meaning bentonite clay? Bentonite clay is a fantastic detox agent and is used judiciously internally and in baths as a natural antidote to all forms of radiation poisoning, microwave and otherwise, which is what smart meters emit.
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I have read some things about bentonite clay, though I am not so sure what you are saying is true. I mean, where is the proof? It might work as a detoxification agent, but how would it work to prevent microwave damage? Do you understand the mechanics involved in how microwave radiation damages a biological organism? It is quite complex. There are numerous antioxidants known to protect the body against the damage caused by EMR, but not sure that bentonite clay is one of them.
ReplyDeleteWhy not google declassified documents such as those entitled Bio-Effects of Selected Non Lethal Weapons.
ReplyDeleteThe military uses ultra low frequencies as just that for lethality or as they prefer to call it, "less than lethal" effects, meaning a slow kill. The military is not interested in using weapons which cause no harm. Then? Why not check with the American Academy of Family Physicians, Florida Board of Dentistry, Board of Nursing, etc. They teach EMF precipitated electrical induction by means of ultra low EMF frequencies for continuing medical educational credits for students and doctors.
Then review Safety Code Six in Canada. The frequencies are already illegal since Parliament and Health Canada were given the irrefutable weight of evidence of harm on September 24th, 2010.
Then check out Andrew Michrowski for detailed info on rapid metal corrosion of all metal and other structural components from low frequency wireless - which they prefer to call "premature failure" - of bridges, buildings and electrical systems, not to mention 20 years wear in months on nuclear facility pipes. Then check the Electrical Code regarding the rules about harmonics and rapid acceleration of all forms of corrosion. then check out building codes, and ask engineers about the potential for refusal of occupancy permits and void insurance for invalidated specs for investment spec buildings, due to loosening of contacts caused by 4.8 to 10 billion times a second frequency induced vibrations not accounted for in the original building specs. Then check out just how the telecom industry has tried to go around all the laws.
And then, watch inert flesh cook in a microwave oven while continuing to assert that such waves come to a screeching halt at uninsulated skin. Your TV cable is insulated to prevent frequency conflict from causing malfunction. You, on the other hand, are not insulated.
Yes, Anonymous, I am light years ahead of you and have already read all the things you suggest. I know Andrew personally having corresponded with him numerous times via email. Read my blog, join my group, EMF Refugee, then get back to me with suggestions. Regards
ReplyDeleteLight years are what so many others desperately need. Perhaps some readers may not yet be apprised of just how many laws can be activated to reverse this travesty. Many are encouraged to remain focused only on a single end device in the grid radiation system rather than to assess the overview, to demand to be told the the illegal attenuation coefficient of all components of the entire grid coupled to house and bioelectric wiring. Failure by any utility to provide on request all cumulative grid specs, and transmission technical info revokes easement rights. Further, it is illegal to make a profit by coupling human bioelectrical systems to the grid by using microwaves to electrically inducing them while converting them into involuntary conductors coupled to the grid. The smart grid violates all sustainability laws and eco-protective legislation, as represented by the Canadian Governor General's Act.
DeleteThat said, a correctly worded legal Notice of Contractual Default protects from the fundamental paradigm shift from usage measurement to smart theft, (even of the analog which in BC belongs to property owners as well as shareholders of public utilities) In BC, a Notice of Contractual Default precludes data mining, surveillance, trespass, removal of a private fixture,violation of building, electrical and safety code laws, transgression of easement rights and numerous private property rights. There are laws against human experimentation without informed consent, as well as violation of Constitutional protections.
Additionally, meter is a gross misnomer. Smart meters & cell relay meters are not meters at all and are devices in contravention of the Weights and Measures Act because they do not take real time measurements. They are computers running on usage estimation remotely re-programmable software, software also able to overwrite its own tracks (think Diebold). Remove any house system from the grid by flipping the master switch and watch a smart "meter" fail to adapt and go right on "measuring" zero usage as ongoing usage. Additionally, these frequency delivery devices usurp household wiring and conjoin each home's individual wiring into one giant circuit, converting privately owned systems into one continuous energy harvesting grid system by co-opting (unshielded) private electrical wiring and using private electrical systems as network messaging equipment centres. This violates all contractual law as well as many laws, not least of which are implied consent utility/gas/water contractual arrangements, implied or explicit.
Reversal of damage is another matter, removal of all sugar from the diet, addition of sea vegetables such as spirulina and chlorella. People not killed outright by Hiroshima at ground zero who were instructed by enlightened doctors never became ill as long as they stuck to this strict approach.
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