Smart Meters - A Dumb Idea for Health.
Electric power companies across the USA are forcing their customers to have Smart Meters installed on their houses & businesses. They are doing this as a mandate by the US government in order to create a “Smart Power Grid”. Presumably, once fully implemented, electricity can be re-routed to an area of high electric demand & thus hopefully prevent black-outs & brown-outs. The Smart Meter sends a radio-frequency (RF) signal about your specific electric use from your house or business as often as every minute to the electric utility company’s computer, which analyzes electricity needs and then responds however the computer has been programmed to respond. The frequency of a Smart Meter is between 0.9 and 2.9 gigahertz, which is similar to the frequency of cellphones & cellphone towers (also RF).
The problem with this Smart Meter RF transmission is that it is like having a small cellphone tower attached to your house or business. The owner of a five-story apartment building in London several years ago decided to allow a cellphone company to install a cellphone tower on top of the apartment building. Over the next few years, the incidence of cancer in the residents of that building increased dramatically, with the highest incidence of cancer in the residents of the top floor (10 times the British national average). That apartment building became known as the “Tower of Doom”.
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine issued a position letter in April, 2012 on their website stating “…arguments are made with respect to RF exposure from WiFi, cell towers and smart meters that due to distance, exposure to these wavelengths are negligible.2 However, many in vitro, in vivo and epidemiological studies demonstrate that significant harmful biological effects occur from non-thermal RF exposure and satisfy Hill's criteria of causality.3 Genetic damage, reproductive defects, cancer, neurological degeneration and nervous system dysfunction, immune system dysfunction, cognitive effects, protein and peptide damage, kidney damage, and developmental effects have all been reported in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.”
If you still have an analog meter, you should put a sign beside that meter stating that you do not give permission to the electric company to change to a digital “Smart Meter” because of health reasons. If you believe your health is being negatively affected by a Smart Meter on your home or business, you can contact your electricity provider to ask them to change the meter back to an analog meter, but be prepared for a fight. You should also write a letter to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) in your state describing adverse health symptoms you are experiencing from the Smart Meter (or if you do not have a Smart Meter yet, describe what you know from the scientific literature to justify not wanting a Smart Meter on your home or business). In most states, you must send multiple copies of your letter (one for each member of the PUC) in one envelope to the Public Utility Commission of your state with a Project Number at the top of each letter that can be learned by calling the PUC office.