Dr. David Carpenter MD, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a physician who has worked in the area of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and public health for over 18 years, has a few choice words for power companies that are forcing smart meters down the throats of their customers all over the United States.
Dr. Carpenter adamantly insists that there is no evidence whatsoever that smart meters are in any way safe for human beings. Â He goes on to say that there is, in fact, ample evidence that demonstrates “convincingly and consistently” that exposure to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) at elevated levels for long periods of time increases the risk of cancer, damages the nervous system, and adversely affects the reproductive organs.
Dr. Carpenter says that an informed person should demand that they be allowed to keep their analog meter.
The two minute video interview with Dr. Carpenter below is well worth watching. Â
If you are having smart meters forced upon you where you live, know that California power customers have recently won the battle to keep their analog meters. Â There is both an annual and monthly charge for this “inconvenience” to the power utilities, but at least customers now have a choice to opt out where they did not before.
This precedent for opting out in California should make it easier for others with smart meters who don’t want them in other areas of the United States to be able to get their analog meters back as well.
While smart meters reduce workload and increase profitability for the power companies, they do so at the expense of the health of their customers. Â Opting out is the only “smart” way to deal with this corporate incursion.
Smart Meter Dangers – Video
Here is what one prominent industry expert who is also a medical doctor has to say about smart meters. Don’t wait until you have a health problem likely caused or exacerbated by these devices. Be proactive to protect your family!
Note that this does not necessarily include the very similar looking AMR devices.
Can’t Get Rid of Your Smart Meter Right Now?
If you live in a rental property or cannot afford to pay the extortion fee charged by utility companies to remove your smart meter and reinstall an analog, I would recommend getting a device called a Smart Meter Guard (check it out here).
It has been proven to cut 98% of the radiation from a smart meter! Better yet, the power company won’t balk if you use it as long as you don’t break the security seal (don’t EVER do this!). My friend Beth from Minnesota emailed me about it recently as she was informed about this new device by a building biologist who works for the company Intentional Environment.
There are now two other less expensive competitive products, the Smart Meter Cover (available here) and the Smart Meter Shield (available here).
Having one of these smart meter safety devices installed at your home is a must.
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I heard (and this is third hand) that when a neighbor of a neighbor in the Dallas Metro Plex had theirs removed – not for health reasons but because it was inaccurate it took several days to get the power back on. Again I don’t have one of these meters and wont have them (I am on co-op power). Again – just hearsay.
These meters are already in a lot of houses in Texas.
I am furious about this. I was home when they came to install that thing on my house and I told the guy to leave. I said I didn’t want the meter and then one morning, early, when I was still in bed, my electricity blinked off for a few seconds and I heard a lot of noise at the side of my house. I ran downstairs and the guy was literally running to the van with my analog meter. I yelled at him to put it back and he just got in the van and drove away. I have called and complained to DTE about this and they say there is nothing they can do. I am stuck with it. What a bunch of B.S.! I’m sick of this stuff. We have no rights, liberties, privacy left. We are being choked by big government. They are killing us slowly. Our food is making us sick. Our electricity is nuking us. And soon, if things don’t change, our medical system will decide if we can even get treated for the illnesses that are mostly caused by them.
Getting a locked gate for your home is one way to keep them out from what I’ve been told.
You can also put a small fence around your analog meter with a lock on it. This has worked for some folks.
In League City, the guy jumped the locked gate and installed one. The guy ran my doorbell to tell me he was installing one about 3 weeks ago. I told him I didn’t want it, they came back while I was gone and put it on. I was never informed they were in the neighborhood installing, not told the number to call to stop it. Forced on me. I called all over and finally got a supervisor. When giving my reasons for not wanting it, including the radioactivity issue, he said “They are OUTSIDE.” Couldn’t believe he was that ignorant and told him walls don’t block radioactivity. He said the only option I had was to get the Opt Out passed. I wrote the Public Utilities Commission…there is a lady protesting here in Texas, but I don’t have much faith since the PUC is pro industry.
Go solar, get off the grid, build a windmill. Nobody needs the power company.
I just talked to someone at my power company, and they said they use a Sensus meter that is checked every 4 hours, for a second (and acted like that was no big deal). He said if we use cell phones we’re getting a lot more radio activity than we would through their smart meter (he said the ones they use are individual, not collector that would give off more signal). Any thoughts on this?
This is definitely something I will research more. My home doesn’t have one yet, but is scheduled to in the next few months.
Yes, and a TSA agent told me that the naked body scanners were just radio waves too and no big deal. Do your homework and don’t take the power companies word for it.
@Jan- This was the exact same crap I got from the electric company when they called asking why I refused the meter. It was always so condescending the way they asserted that the meter was no more dangerous than a cell phone. Um, those are dangerous too! One guy even said, “Oh, so you will nuke your food (I don’t) and go on the computer all day and talk on your cell phone while you drive, but you won’t have a smart meter on your house? You need to do some research, maam.” UGH! I wanted to scream, but I blew it off because I know when I’m 98 and still going strong, the guy from the electric company will be long gone from god-knows-what disease. And why will that be? Because I did the research and he opted to listen to what the electric company brain washed him with!
Thanks for sharing. …Just can’t win for losin’ these days! So disgusting!
Ours is out on the power pole away from the house thankfully!!!
@Angela power companies have threatened to cut off people’s power, but have not done so anywhere else in the country. It would be a huge liability for them. I see this as an empty threat.
I am so glad you shared this! For those who are just hearing about it, look deeper into it. It is a few hours well spent. Because I live in CA. I spent hours learning what I could to fight off having this stupid thing put on my house. I still don’t have one! But as you research, you will see what others have done to keep the electric company away. They caged their meter with chainlink and other devices so that no one could replace it with a smart meter. Those who had the meter installed, and now realize it is dangerous, had the smart meter ripped out and replaced with an analog by an electrician, so desperate they were to get the thing off their house.
In my research, I’ve seen pictures of plants near a smart meter that were strong before the installation of the new meter, but then died shortly after the new meter was put in. The government doesn’t think that is weird; the electric company says it is not the meters fault. But when you see several pictures of plants that died in different conditions and in different cities that were healthy at one point, and then suddenly died after a smart meter was put in, makes you wonder what it is doing to US!! Google “stop smart meters” and you will see tons of videos and research. I even came across a video while researching that showed how EMFs change the shape of our cells, which means they no longer work as they should. Why is that okay? It’s not in my book!
I also came across a video of a place in France that was removing all WiFi in public places because they realized the EMFs were making people sick -especially children. Leave it to Europe to be more advanced -once again- when it comes to health issues. BTW, the coalitions that fought the meters in CA are still fighting because they do not think it is fair that customers should be charged for not wanting a smart meter on their house. I hope they win that fight, too.
Sarah,
I was alarmed to learn a few months ago about how our activities can be monitored (and sold to the highest bidder!) with these meters. Check out this video…SCARY…
Exactly Stephanie! These can be used to know what you are doing all day, and not only that: If the green police decide we need to all use less energy to “save the planet”, they can decide to charge you fees if you go over your “allowed” energy usage or if you run the A/C too long. With all our freedoms going out the window, you better believe this thing will be used for bad in the future.
The health implications are important, but I believe the privacy aspect is equally, if not more.