Smart Meters; what sensitive people need to know!

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If you click on the link there is a report " What People who are Sensitive need

to know about Smart Meters " !  This is great info!

 

Loni

 

The link at the bottom of this article doesn't appear to work.  Here is one

that does:

http://www.eiwellspring.org/smartmeter/Smart_Meter_overview.htm

Sorry.  ~Joy

On Jun 13, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Joy Jaber wrote:

Smart meter radiation — are wired transmissions as bad as wireless?

The new “smart†electrical meters may transmit data to the utility company

as frequently as every few seconds.  This is done either by wireless or as

signals travelling along the electrical wires, called powerline communication.

It is easy to think that using the technology that sends signals along the

electrical wires is much safer than wireless, but the reality is not so simple.

The powerline transmissions have shown themselves to have health consequences as

well.  All the wires that carry these signals act as antennas that radiate

these frequencies.  In practice, that means that all wires in all the walls in

a house will be antennas.  So will the electrical lines along the road.

This principle has been used to bring AM radio to remote parts of Europe and the

Soviet Union several decades ago.

Telephone lines used to transport DSL signals are shielded; powerlines are not.

The radiation is much weaker than from a wireless meter, but a wireless meter

radiates from only one place, not from all the walls.  It is like having many

small transmitters in the house instead of one larger one.

With a wireless meter, it may be possible to get by with sleeping on the

opposite side of the house.  Or move the meter away from the house to a

pedestal out in the yard.  Or perhaps put up a radiation shield behind the

meter.  Or simply use a mechanical meter.

With powerline communications it is much more difficult to do something about

it.  Even if the utility puts back the mechanical meter, the signals can still

enter the household wires from the other meters in the neighborhood.  The

signals travel in all directions, not just the direct route back to the

utility.  Shielding and filtering is costly, difficult and sometimes

impossible, depending on the actual technology.

The level of sensitivity varies from person to person.  Some people also do

better with certain frequency bands than others.

Which of the two technologies will work best depends on the situation and the

person.

If the utilities are asked to provide a wired alternative to their wireless

meters, they will think in terms of powerline communication as that is the

wireborne technology they have available.

A better solution is to use dialup modems over the telephone landline.  Another

option is dedicated communications lines, such as DSL and fiber optic.  This

could be installed jointly with the local company which brings wires internet to

households in the area, so the same lines are used for both.  However, this

will be more costly than the technologies the utilities now intend to use, and

new meters may first have to be developed.  Many rural areas do not have DSL or

fiber internet service, which makes it very expensive to install this type of

meter there. 

For information about the many different types of smart meters, how they

communicate and what can be done about them, see:

http://www.eiwellspring.org/smartmeter/Smart_Meter_overview.htm