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Contact: Joshua Hart, StopSmartMeters.Org
Thursday, Sept. 15th 2011 info@stopsmartmeters.org
Santa Cruz Resident Assaulted by “Smart” Meter Installers Wednesday Morning
San Francisco- Yesterday, as part of an “opt out” judicial proceeding at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) the public had a chance to pose tough questions to a panel of utility and “smart” meter supplier executives, who responded at times by giving false information, vague, tight lipped reassurances, often refusing to answer relevant questions about the power of wireless radiation being emitted by the meters. The judge refused to allow expert medical testimony or public comment on the record or any questions regarding widespread health effects of the pulsing meters.
This morning, Stop Smart Meters! received disturbing reports of an alleged assault by a Wellington Energy Installer on an electrosensitive resident who had demanded the installer halt work installing smart meters on the side of his apartment. The full account can be read here: http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/09/15/santa-cruz-man-assaulted-by-wellington-worker-camera-broken/
Outside at lunch, a boisterous crowd chanted “Pull the Plug,” demanding that the entire wireless “smart” meter mesh network be scrapped, and insisting that any charges to “opt out” of the health damaging “smart” meter program would be akin to charging disabled people to access a wheelchair ramp.
Judge Yip-Kikugawa, who presided over the workshop- was assisted by several CPUC staffers, who circulated wireless microphones throughout the audience of about 100 people, a slap in the face to electrosensitive people who were already suffering from the pervasive wi-fi and cell phone radiation in the room, forcing several to leave the building. The judge attempted to rule out questions about “why” the opt out was necessary in the first place, requiring that the discussion focus on “how” various opt out proposals would be structured. Without addressing the reasons behind the widespread opposition to the smart meter program (largely due to adverse health effects) it quickly became apparent that it would be difficult to identify a solution if the problem was not discussed at the outset.
Judge Yip-Kikugawa threatened to shut down the proceedings twice after participants posed difficult questions about the power of the transmitters. Stop Smart Meters! Director Joshua Hart asked PG&E and Silver Spring Networks how they were complying with FCC regulations that state that “all persons must be kept at least 20cm from the meters” and that meters “must not be co-located.” Silver Spring Networks replied that it was up to PG&E to ensure that FCC requirements were being met. Jim Meadows of PG&E replied with a short statement: “PG&E is complying with all FCC regulations.” Clearly however, the company is in violation of these requirements, failing to warn residents to keep their distance from the meters and installing more than 100 meters in the same location.
Later in the afternoon, Silver Spring Networks executives admitted that the SmartMeters are transmitting continuously 24/7. Even though the meters only upload usage information 6 times per day to PG&E, the meters are continuously ‘chatting’ with each other 24/7 every few seconds in order to authenticate and keep the network synchronized. From their comments, it appears that potentially 90% of the meter chatter has nothing to do with uploading data to PG&E, it is chatter to keep the network synched up – radiation that has nothing to do with customer energy use. It now appears likely that much of the radiation that is making people sick is simply to maintain the mesh wireless network itself.
Yesterday, PG&E also confirmed that the individual home SmartMeter data is NOT used on a real-time basis for predicting power generation. The PG&E substations are what communicate the power needs on a real time basis. They also confirmed that turning off every wireless SmartMeter transmission would have zero impact on how the smart grid functions on a daily basis.
According to PG&E, the SmartMeter time-of-use data is analyzed later (sometimes months later) to make more accurate and precise power generation predictions, but the real-time nature of this data is not used in anyway by PG&E for operating the “smart” grid. In fact, the individual SmartMeter data is only uploaded 6 times per day to PG&E, and usually many hours after the power is used. So according to PG&E, the individual SmartMeters are completely unnecessary for communicating real time data and running the “smart” grid.
This raises the question as to why PG&E is deploying meters which are transmitting every few seconds 24/7. A SmartMeter which could upload the customers’ time-of-use data one time per month (or be read by a PG&E meter reader employee) would serve the exact same purpose. PG&E would use this data in the exact same way for their billing and energy producing predictions, so the 24/7 wireless mesh network that is saturating our neighborhoods serves zero purpose for billing or energy conservation.
It was confirmed by the PG&E representative that a SmartMeter system which uploads the customers’ time-of-use data for the entire month could be uploaded just one single time per month, and this would serve the exact same purpose for PG&E as the current 24/7 wireless transmissions which take place every 4 seconds. It is completely unnecessary and serves no purpose for our neighborhoods to be saturated in wireless radiation 24/7.
It became starkly apparent from the proceeding yesterday that a simple time-of-use NON-wireless meter read by a meter reader once per month would supply PG&E with the exact same data they need to make their calculations. The wireless aspect of the SmartMeter program seems only designed to eliminate human meter readers. The wireless saturation by the PG&E mesh network in our homes has zero impact on conserving energy. The truth is that the public in California are being exposed to wireless radiation from “Smart” Meters because PG&E does not want to pay meter reader employees and technicians to activate and de-activate power at homes and businesses, re-directing these funds to shareholder profits.
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Joshua Hart
Director, Stop Smart Meters!
http://stopsmartmeters.org
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HFTH
Sep 20, 2011 @ 16:27:24
Look what the CPUC & SCE are trying to do to our community http://www.hopeforthehills.org
The CPUC Commission must continue to be changed before there is another tragedy, be it from Smart Meters, 500kV Powerlines within 75 feet of homes or another disasterous project they’re supposedly overseeing!
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Smash Cancer
Sep 20, 2011 @ 14:18:10
You just know that Big Pharma and the Medical Establishment are loving this. They get to have virtually all people bombarded with radio energy 24-7. This is definitely going to multiply the number of sick people who will then need medical treatment. This is very sinister, and these organizations are seeking to destroy our freedom to not be tracked and monitored, nor be irradiated continuously with these energy devices. Profit is ‘Job #1’ and every other consideration is of minor consequence to these ‘people’. There is definitely a coordinated agenda because there is too much happening along these lines for it to be coincidental.
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Brad
Sep 19, 2011 @ 22:40:42
There is such a lot of misinformation on this whole topic due to the extremely complex nature of the subject. It is very difficult to compare the power emitted by these devices to cellphones because of the multiplicity of power levels that cellphones work on. The cellphone is designed to communicate with the cell tower when you begin a call and turn the power down to the lowest level that reliable communications can be established at. Therefore, before you are talking about what power level you are being exposed to, you must determine what the average dose is over a certain period of time. The frequency that the RF emissions are being measured at is also very important as the human body responds differently to different frequencies of RF waves.
As for the measurement of the electricity in the line itself, the earlier comment about power factor is very timely. The power companies have always billed their commercial customers in Kilowatt-Hours at a certain power factor. Power factor is the ratio of Kilo-Volt-Amps to Kilowatts and the aim is to keep the power factor as close to 1 as possible by adding what are called KVAR capacitors to the system. This raises the power factor from lets say .7 to .9. .9 being more efficient than .7 power factor. The higher the power factor the lower the electricity bill. Power factor was made low by having a lot of electric motors or a lot of fluorescent lamp ballasts in your load. This is called having an inductive load. This is where you would ad KVAR capacitors to your load thus cancelling out the inductive load and raising your power factor.
Most people’s homes don’t have many electric motors or many lamp ballasts so the power companies in the past didn’t want to waste the money installing the costly meters that it needed to measure power factor. With modern technology, this cost has become almost nothing, so the power companies are seeing an ability to increase their profits by using their metering to it’s fullest advantage. Putting all this into layman’s language. The old way they had of measuring power was similar to using a dipstick to see how much gas you have in your car compared to a constantly monitored digital guage to do the same thing to show you the rate at which you are using the gas and at what speed you are most efficient. Like everything , this has good and bad sides to it and it’s use depends on the the people making the decisions.
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matthew
Sep 19, 2011 @ 10:54:54
What if the power companies had a party and no one came? The BEST way to defeat these thugs is deprive them of data and income. Install your OWN solar system and get off their grid. When no one is participating, then there will be no income for them and companies without revenue do what?…..they fold, go out of business, cease to exists. Screw these utilities. I’d rather sit in the dark or eat by candlelight than become part of their constantly growing program of control.
Its about deciding just what kind of life we are all really going to live. Why even give them the option of having a say? Become independent of their control, by taking control. There is freedom in personal responsibility. The one thing these creeps really understand, need and cannot live without is your money. Arrange it so they get none and the hounding will stop.
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Margot Carpentier
Sep 18, 2011 @ 21:08:41
YOU MEAN THAT THE SMART READER IS JUST FOR PG&E TO GET RID OF THE EMPLOYEES THAT READ THE METERS. DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH. IT IS TO KNOW WHAT EVERYONE IS DOING INSIDE THAT HOME OR APARTMENT AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY/NIGHT – THEY KEEP THE POPULATION IN A DATABASE. AND IT IS ALL APART OF AGENDA 21 (THIS IS THE UNITED NATIONS EDIT IN THE RIO ACCORDS. NEXT THEY WILL PUT SMART METER CHIPS IN ALL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES UNDER WHICH THEY WILL HAVE CONTROL OF WHAT EVER YOU DO. AND THEN THEY GET TO CUT YOU OFF IF THEY DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. DO YOU REALLY THINK THE PUBLIC IS THAT DUMB. MARGOT (WHERE AM I)
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tesla_x
Sep 18, 2011 @ 19:49:59
Don’t forget that there are other ‘profit centers beyond just labor savings.
Power factor is typically not measured with an analog meter, so any peaks with startup loads are typically not billed to the customer.
With the smart meters, all variances in demand including power factor is counted against the ratepayer.
Essentially this is a hidden rate increase of anywhere between 5-30%, as previously this was shouldered by the utility and not billed against residential ratepayers. Commercial and industrial users were billed for these ‘demand charges’….and that is customary today. Smart meters have essentially enabled the utilities to bill residential ratepayers ‘de-facto’ demand charges’.
Also, baselines are no longer trued up on a monthly basis, so if you had that big party on one weekend, then were gone for another weekend, the utility did not see it, and neither did you on your bill.
Now the utility has instituted smaller weekly baselines, that if you go over them in any one week or so, you get to the higher cost tiers faster, thus again generating more profit for the same number of KWH that cost less on average when the baseline was only counted once over the entire month.
This is also a ‘de-facto’ demand charge albeit on another scale.
So, smartmeters are labor saving devices….true.
BUT they are also producing profit through changing the fundamental ways power is ‘counted’ and by imposing ‘demand charges’ on residential ratepayers.
Was this ‘power factor adjustment/rate increase’ and ‘demand charge increase’ explicitly authorized by the CPUC?
That is an open question in my mind…perhaps a legal one too.
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George
Sep 18, 2011 @ 19:00:52
I watched a video on youtube about technocracy. Please search it in youtube and you will find it very disturbing indeed. The elites have been planning a new form of total control and new politcal system that removes all freedoms and sustainable development means the removal of private property. Soon will will be controlled by fascists of the highest degrees.
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Jörg
Sep 18, 2011 @ 18:42:41
There is apparently much more on the agenda. See this:
I’m living in The Netherlands and I only have to give up my analog meter data via internet once a year now but apparently they want a global smart grid. It’s a NWO thing to control each and every human on earth. Not good …
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Mark
Sep 18, 2011 @ 17:13:35
How long before someone or some group discovers a way to outsmart the smart meters?
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Loren
Sep 18, 2011 @ 16:06:13
In quoting above :
“the 24/7 wireless mesh network that is saturating our neighborhoods serves zero purpose for billing or energy conservation”
But it does serve a purpose – a hellish purpose … a new nationwide “private network” independent of the Internet.
What we the public view as “the Internet” is only a fraction of the Internet in its totality. That part of the Internet that we don’t see and use is known as the “dark net”.
A whole new nationwide “dark net” is being constructed via Smart Meter Technology, without our knowledge nor consent, to be used for devilish purposes.
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Robert Williams
Sep 18, 2011 @ 14:26:40
WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES.
Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/
WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS.
Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes)
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946
NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using instruments other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people’s homes for a very short time.
But as Wireless smart meter emit 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, one can project the harm that the machine gun can inflict, even if the tests were done with a pistol.
RADIATION MEASURED FROM SMART METER MOUNTED ON A HOME (once active in the utility system) SHOWS RADIATION TRANSMISSION PULSES APPROXIMATELY ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS 24 HOURS PER DAY traveling through the bodies and brains of the inhabitants of that home. Youtube Video (6 minutes, 1st minute is sufficient)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE
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Robert Williams
Sep 18, 2011 @ 14:25:35
MUST-SEE 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters:
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Robert Williams
Sep 18, 2011 @ 14:24:56
SMART METER PRIVACY VIOLATIONS.
1. Must-See 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI
SMART METER HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CANCER.
2. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION on May 31 2011 placed the Non-ionizing radiation coming from Wireless smart meters (and some other wireless devices) on the Class 2-B Carcinogen List.
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
3. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH months ago (Feb 2011) found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.abstract
4. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed (1) Human Cell Damage (2) DNA Chain Breaks (3) Breaches in the Blood-Brain Barrier from levels of non-ionizing radiation lower than emitted by WIRELESS Smart meters.
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cc-video/
5. INSURANCE COMPANIES Hired Independent Laboratory Scientists and these scientists also observed Cell Damage and DNA Chain Breaks and now the Insurance Companies will NOT Insure Liability damage from Wireless Smart meters and other wireless devices. TV Video (3 minutes)
So shouldn’t installation of Wireless smart meters on people’s homes Stop?
Cell Phone use and other devices are Voluntary and can be shut off at the user’s discretion, but Smart meters are emitting radiation 24/7 and can not be shut off.
6. WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES. Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/
7. WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS. Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes)
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946
8. THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (the University that gives the Nobel Prizes) ISSUES GLOBAL HEALTH WARNING AGAINST WIRELESS SMART METERS. 2-page Press Release
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48148346/Karolinska-Institute-Press-Release
9. RADIATION MEASURED FROM SMART METER MOUNTED ON A HOME (once active in the utility system) SHOWS RADIATION TRANSMISSION PULSES APPROXIMATELY ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS 24 HOURS PER DAY traveling through the bodies and brains of the inhabitants of that home. Youtube Video (6 minutes, 1st minute is sufficient)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE
NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using instruments other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people’s homes for a very short time.
But as a Wireless smart meter emits 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, it is not difficult to project the harm that the machine gun can inflict, even if the tests were done with the pistol.
CUSTOMER UTILITY BILLS AFTER SMART METERS INSTALLED.
10. Skyrocketing Utility Bills after installation
TV News Video (3 minutes)
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/63581287.html?tab=video
11. Systemic Smart Meter Billing Errors Over 200% Uncovered in Australia
TV News Video (7 minutes)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/money/article/-/10241945/power-scandal-exposed/ – video
NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS DUE TO SMART METERS.
12. CIA Director James Woolsey calls Smart grid “Stupid” due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters.
News Video (1 minute)
http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/10/preview-mix-james-woolsey
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David Griffin
Sep 18, 2011 @ 13:53:08
The so-called “smart meters” are one more facet of the suppressive electromagnetic net being actively constructed around us, along with the proliferation of cell phone towers, microwave repeaters, Wi-Fi networks, etc.
They have gotten as far as they have because most people do not fully understand the ramifications of this technology on the mind and body, though the military and intelligence agencies have known for decades. These devices and technologies fall into the realm of RF weapons, sometimes referred to as psychotronics.
Historical Methods of Counterintelligence
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/35hmofci.htm
Introduction to Information Warfare
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/35iw1.htm
Section 4 The War for the Mind of Man
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/40.htm
Information Warfare Part II, Introduction to Psychotronics, Electronic Emotions, etc.
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Stuart
Sep 18, 2011 @ 13:46:01
The judge refused to allow expert medical testimony or public comment on the “record or any questions regarding widespread health effects of the pulsing meters.”
The judge is not allowed to do this 1. He is a Public trustee and has to work in the beneficiaries (us) interests. 2. It is breach of duty of care. 3. public negligence. 4. willful misconduct. 5. Malfeasance of office etc etc
He should be served with a “Show cause” order and held to account if not removed from office
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WillieG51
Sep 18, 2011 @ 12:32:41
And of course if you can’t ask “tough” questions, how can you get “real” answers. . The judge of course is in the pocket of the utility company and anyone who believes otherwise is in total denial
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