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We just got a notice that if we don’t want the “smart meter” we have to pay a $35 fee, then $15 a month to stay on the opt out.
ah, No! You do not pay not to do something.
thank you for this post. i’ve been fighting pg&e smart meters since their inception. and yes they are now trying to shake us down for an “opt out” fee. i actually had to stand in the way of my fenced off and locked analog meter to keep one from being installed.
This really has me going! I just got notice today that Southern California Edison is going to charge me $75 plus $10 a month to opt out — IF the CA Utilities Commission decides to allow opt-outs at its May meeting. I sense a full-bore rebellion coming. If we don’t stop this then America has become a sick joke.
I had read about these smart meters and was going to contact the electric company about opting out. A few days later, I noticed our old meter had been replaced with a shiny new meter. I did read that the EMR readings from these are high. Our bedroom is just through the wall from this thing. I just don’t want this thing on our house.
Are there really people this willfully ignorant in the world?
As a designer of smart meters, I challenge anyone to show me mean-time-between-failures figures that prove that analog meters are more reliable than electronic.
You can't.
Electronic meters HAVE NO MOVING PARTS TO WEAR OUT.
Not long ago, one of my customers sent back a "smart" gas meter that had been in the field since 1987.
Yes, you read that right.
And it was still working.
And they're plenty safe, folks. It's not ionizing radiation, it's radio waves, same as your cell phone, baby monitor, and wireless key fob for your car. I did the calculations for safe RF exposure myself, folks. It's not going to hurt you.
No, smart meters cannot report on how often you have sex, what magazines you read, or whether you are a candidate to go to a FEMA camp. It JUST MEASURES POWER/WATER/GAS. It doesn't have the computer power, memory, or gumption to do anything else. It just obeys its boring little program, reporting meter readings ever 4 hours so the utility company can balance their loads.
Sheesh, can we stop with the smart meter paranoia on FR already?
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This a luddite effort