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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The Health Hazards of Wireless Baby Monitors
Last night, after telling my husband about this, he told me that a few weeks ago while I was out someone from the power company knocked on the door and said they needed to install a new meter. This upset me greatly and the very first thing I did this morning was call our electric company and DEMAND they remove it. He said they could NOT. I firmly told him this is our home and we are not going to be forced to have this device attached to our home when there is no reasearch proving it is safe and much research that indicates the opposite, etc., etc. He explained to me that the meter they recently removed was an RF meter, which had been on the house since it was built in 2006. The new meter is a TWACS meter, which is much safer and sends the information through hard wires rather than through the air. Does anyone know if he is correct in saying this meter is safer???? Sounds plausible.
YES he is. Although the other meter was no more dangerous to your health than a cell phone, bluetooth headset, wireless internet or any other wireless device.
NO! TWACS is not safer. Instead of wireless communications signal being broadcast from the meter outside your house, the radiation will come from all the electrical wiring inside your house. It will turn your wiring into antennas and will cause all the power lines throughout your area to be giant microwave antennas.
Please read this article on TWACS power line communication and how it is problematic to the public health:
http://www.eiwellspring.org/smartmeter/TWACS.htm
Trudy is right! TWACS may be worse than RF because you will never be able to get far enough away because the radiation is coming from the electrical wiring all over your house. Power companies like to lull customers to sleep insinuating that their TWACS power line communication is safe, but putting communication signals on plain electrical house wires or on the powerlines turns them into giant antennas. Therefore TWACS becomes unintentional radiator with biologically harmful emissions. Most TWACS meters have a UMT installed – a universal metering transponder which is an antenna which operates in the 900 MHz range to also read wireless gas and water “smart” meters.
I already have it and have had it for years. yuk
Thank you Sarah for posting this! After reading this I went to check where our meter was….sure enough it is a Smart Meter on the exact part of the wall where my son’s head is while he sleeps…..mere inches!!! My grandmother just died from brain cancer, so we already have a tendency towards it. My son has been lethargic for 6 months…i wonder if this could have anything to do with it! I am in CA and immediately called Edison to request removal and was told I will be put on the list for when that happens, so tomorrow we will be moving my kids beds into the dining room on the opposite side of the house. Thank you!!!
I am practically in tears reading this, Brady. I am so happy this post has helped your son. Please keep us posted on how he is doing and if he has better energy once he is sleeping further away from the smart meter.
Thanks for posting this! This is so important!
This video includes a letter to the utility companies in the sidebar that can be copied/pasted/personalized forbidding smart meter installation. I don’t know if this helps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI
This is all so frustrating. I know we have one, but we live in CA, so I’ll talk to my husband about opting out–$75 to replace it and $10 a month.
But, we have wireless internet and a wireless alarm. What’s one to do? We don’t have a microwave anymore, so I guess that’s good, but I have one in my office that my officemate uses. I have a hot plate and bring in a pan to cook everyday.
Ugggghhhhh……
It is always a comfort to come to this website and “hear” the voice of reason in a world gone mad! Yes, out here in west Texas they slipped in and gave us a Smart Meter! I have already gone to a website and signed a petition for Texas; just a note to other Texans. There is a movement starting and everyone needs to help support it to stop any further encroachment. Speak up; tell your neighbors, your child’s teacher, your pastor, the stranger in line next to you. Just make sure that we get to dialogue about this and HAVE A SAY! There was a press release today in Austin by a lawyer (Tom Cryer) who has filed suit against the PUC for letting this happen. Thanks to everyone on this blog who refuses to let the lies continue!
Yup, they’re pushing them on us in Hawai’i this year. There are folks who are protesting it and made a form that you can submit that you don’t want one installed, but I’m not sure if it guarantees they won’t install it. Have to get on that. I’ve been lazy about it, but this reminded me how important it is.