So exposures will not just be from your own meter, but accumulating from possibly 100-to-500 of your neighbors’ as well. In what are called “mesh networks,” signals can also be bounced from house-meter to house-meter before reaching the final hub. * That meter, in turn, will transmit at an even higher frequency to a central hub installed in local neighborhoods. All transmitters inside your home or office will communicate with a Smart Meter attached to the outside of each building. And this is despite the fact that all appliances will transmit wireless data with peak power bursts far above current safety standards – at frequencies between 917 MHz and 3.65 GHz in the ultra-high frequency/microwave ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, several times a minute.Īnd that’s just the indoor part. Yet, not one safety concern regarding the cumulative effects of 24/7 exposure to RF radiation seems to have occurred to the backers of Smart Grids. Citing “electricity theft,” it could also be illegal to do so. Meanwhile, people who don’t want to use such appliances won’t be able to deactivate the wireless component without disabling it and voiding warranties. Department of Energy (DOE) is already giving out tax credits. While older models can be retrofitted, General Electric (GE) and other appliance manufacturers are already putting transmitters into their latest designs, and the U.S. home has over 15 such appliances, each of which would be equipped with a transmitting antenna. Heads up: that’s every dishwasher, microwave oven, stove, washing machine, clothes dryer, air conditioner, furnace, refrigerator, freezer, coffee maker, TV, computer, printer, and fax machine. The problem: smart metering will turn every single appliance into the equivalent of a transmitting cell phone, and this at a time when public concern about the safety of exposure to the radiofrequency radiation (RF) of wireless technologies is on the rise. These days the word “smart” is attached to anything even marginally digital - and indeed it’s an effective marketing tool because who wants anything dumb? Other than those who stand to make enormous profits and the physicists or engineers who dream up such stuff, Smart Grids are giving knowledgeable people the willies. What could be more perfect for communicating facts about the planet, funding enviro-candidates, pushing legislation, and organizing Earth Days?īut few who actually study how these new systems function want anything to do with them. On the surface, Smart Grids sound ‘green’ - with promises of saving energy, creating new power-line corridors run on wind and solar, way-stations to power-up electric vehicles, energy-efficient upgrades to an aging power infrastructure, and real-time customer knowledge of electricity use.Īnd there’s the enticing communications factor: a nationwide high-speed broadband information technology barreling down high-tension electric corridors called Broadband-Over-Power-Lines (BPL). Smart Grid technologies - initially funded to the tune of $3.4 billion through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and slated to cost $11 billion through 2011 - are enough to make even die-hard liberals demand a claw back of misspent tax dollars. Welcome to the Smart Grid - a government-funded money machine capable of intruding into every aspect of our lives. How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase energy consumption, endanger the environment, harm public health, diminish privacy, make the national utility grid more insecure, cause job losses, and make energy markets more speculative? NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.
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