SMART METERS
SUMMARY:
This is a clever retro cartoon that introduces most of the real intentions of the smart meter and smart grid system.
Smart Attack!
The Smart Grid
Smart meters are actually just part of something called the smart grid. Grid is the term used for the vast interconnected network of generating stations and transmission lines used to deliver electricity to businesses and homes. Smart meters, the smart grid, and 5G technology are all connected to the enabling of government control. According to Techopedia, “a smart grid is an electricity network based on digital technology that is used to supply electricity to consumers via two-way digital communication. This system allows for monitoring, analysis, control and communication within the supply chain to help improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption and cost, and maximize the transparency and reliability of the energy supply chain. The smart grid was introduced with the aim of overcoming the weaknesses of conventional electrical grids by using smart net meters.”
So – the smart grid will send information to your smart home, and your smart home will send information (every detail of your lifestyle and habits) back to the smart grid.
Techopedia goes on to state. “Many government institutions around the world have been encouraging the use of smart grids for their potential to control and deal with global warming.” This is your first clue that you are not being told the real reason for the creation of the smart grid. A complete explanation of that comment can be found in the “Dig Deeper” page on this website HERE. But we will continue with a (partially) politically correct introduction to the smart grid and smart meters.
Wikipedia defines the smart grid as ”a modern electrical grid that uses communication and information technology to collect information from the behavior of its customers. This is done so that it can automatically work itself to be more efficient and reliable in distributing electricity.” Developing a new grid to collect information about the behavior of customers should make you suspicious.
Funding for the smart grid was in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. However, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, organized as soon as Obama came to power, greatly expanded the funding. In addition, the U.S. Federal Financing Bank started providing billions a year in loans, possibly that were never intended to be repaid, to utilities so they could quickly implement the rapid deployment of smart meters. Somehow this deployment also occurred in many places around the developed and developing world at about the same time. It appears that some group capable of controlling the finances of governments around the world was involved.
In the United States it was presented as a vital transformation of the old and failing electric grid that had to be implemented as fast as possible. The transformation of wireless communications to 5G was introduced in much the same way – it had to be done as fast as possible. In both cases this meant individual rights and property rights had to be ignored. There are many stories of people having their power shut off when they refused the smart meter, even people arrested for trying to stop its installation. Many people have become sick as soon as the meter was installed - more about that later.
There are many graphical explanations of the smart grid and a few of them are presented below.
Hints in this first view – The smart grid will be able to shut off your appliances, and you can decide to cook dinner at 11 PM to save money! Also, a battery technology that does not exist, and that could not be manufactured in sufficient quantities to be useful within 20 years will be used to store power for use in peak hours.
Here is a view of a future smart city as conceived by the central planners of this new “smarter” world. In all of these plans, “green” power generation and electric cars are a part of the solution.(Wind, solar and electric cars are all horrible polluters that do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions even if you believe that is an actual problem)
Here is a smart building in the vision of our central planners. Its all very green and has charging ports for your self-driving electric car. It has, somehow, storage of both heat and cold underground, and electricity storage. And of course, it claims to reduce C02 while saving you money and making you more comfortable! They show (smart) meters and sub-meters installed in this building.
Here is a smart house as envisioned by General Electric, using all the new smart things they are developing, for your convenience and your benefit!. It is full of clues about how your future will be controlled. Putting 4KV of solar cells on the roof of every home is another impossible task. The geological devastation required to mine all the minerals needed would be astounding, even if the political problems were resolved. And the toxic waste pile of worn out collectors formed within a few years would be equally astounding.
Here is a look at what is really running all of this. This is the many layers of internet-based control networks. In the future, your life is planned to be totally controlled by the smart grid. Note that in this vision as well, every house will have an electric car, solar panels, and energy storage Which of course is physically impossible.. Don’t you feel so much smarter now?
Department of Energy Booklet
The U.S. Department of Energy produced a slick advertising booklet called “The Smart Grid: An Introduction”. On its cover were the lines, “Exploring the imperative of revitalizing America’s electric infrastructure.” And “How a smarter grid works as an enabling engine for our economy, our environment and our future.”
Also on the front cover is the name of the government contractor that produced the booklet. Litos Strategic Communication, which is a large marketing firm that sells their ability to attract the attention of very important project-based clients with creativity.
On the inside cover in very small print is a disclaimer:
“This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor Litos Strategic Communication, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or Litos Strategic Communication. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.”
OK - then - why read it?
“We Don’t Have Much Time.”
That is the title of the first chapter. In the first paragraph it states, “From national challenges like power system security to those global in nature such as climate change, (there it is again!) our near-term agenda is formidable.”
It is not secure!
The smart grid system as implemented is anything but secure. And it saves no energy, so even if you believe that man-made CO2 is causing global warming, renamed climate change, it would make no difference. So the first chapter of the US Department of Energy booklet introducing the smart grid starts with two lies.
The smart meter itself is the weakest security link in the smart grid. You see, in addition to monitoring every minor change in the use of electricity in a home, down to identifying the use of every different electric appliance, a smart meter also has a wirelessly operated disconnect switch! That’s part of the “Smart” control in your future. If there is too much power being demanded in your area, the utility can just shut off the power to your house whenever they feel they need to. Any sophisticated terrorist or criminal could hack into the system and cause massive chaos by turning off the power to thousands, or millions of buildings at the same time.
Real Time Pricing
The DOE Introduction booklet continues to offer some hints about your future under the smart grid. One of these “consumer benefits” is Real-Time Pricing. From the booklet: “These are energy prices that are set for a specific time period on an advance or forward basis and which may change according to price changes in the market. Prices paid for energy consumed during these periods are typically established and known to consumers a day ahead (“day-ahead pricing”) or an hour ahead (“hour-ahead pricing”) in advance of such consumption, allowing them to vary their demand and usage in response to such prices and manage their energy costs by shifting usage to a lower cost period, or reducing consumption overall.”
What? So when the power company sends a text message to you an hour ahead that they are going to charge you more, you are supposed to figure out how to use less power? But this is just the first nudge to get you to accept the next level of control. This is where the Internet of Things and your smart meter start talking on their own on the smart grid through something the DOE calls Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
“AMI enables consumer-friendly? efficiency concepts like “Prices to Devices” to work like this: Assuming that energy is priced on what it costs in near real-time – a Smart Grid imperative – price signals are relayed to “smart” home controllers or end-consumer devices like thermostats, washer/dryers and refrigerators – the home’s major energy-users. The devices, in turn, process the information based on consumers’ learned wishes and power accordingly. The house or office responds to the occupants, rather than vice-versa.”
In other words, in this even “smarter” future, the power company will not need to turn off the power to your entire house, they can just turn off your refrigerator, or your stove, or your washer, or your hot water heater for you. Or as they put it, your house tells you what you can do. They state the same control paradigm again in a different way.
“An automated, widely distributed energy delivery network, the Smart Grid will be characterized by a two-way flow of electricity and information and will be capable of monitoring everything from power plants to customer preferences to individual appliances. It incorporates into the grid the benefits of distributed computing and communications to deliver real-time information and enable the near-instantaneous balance of supply and demand at the device level.”
Micro-surge and electromagnetic pollution explodes
All of these smart appliances and interfaces are going to contribute to huge micro-surge electrical pollution in the wiring of the house, and add massive amounts of electromagnetic radiation to the WiFi communications environment 24 hours a day. You will be required to have a Wi-Fi system on 24 hours a day. But this is not mentioned in the booklet.
Smart Supply and Demand?
Then the booklet really starts to ignore reality. They talk about supply and demand, and how electricity must be consumed the moment it is generated. Then they state “Without a greater ability to anticipate, without knowing precisely when demand will peak or how high it will go, grid operators and utilities must bring generation assets called peaker (sic) plants online to ensure reliability and meet peak demand.” In reality, the peak hours are very constant and well known, and the usage of peaking generation is well established, so this is a lie.
And they say that these "peaker" plants typically sit idle for most of the year without generating revenue. That is not entirely true, and it totally misrepresents the supply side problems of this new “smart” grid that will “decentralize” and use more “renewable” sources. Wind and solar are not reliable supplies of energy. Already with the minuscule amount that wind and solar supply to the grid, some peak usage plants must be kept running without generating revenue so they are instantly ready to take over in case the wind suddenly dies down or the sun goes behind a cloud! As more unreliable wind and solar generation is introduced as a potential power supply, more peaking plants would need to be kept running, and wearing out, while generating no electricity and no revenue.
At this point, someone with knowledge and professional experience with power generation and use (see my personal history on this site) would have to become suspicious of why the Department of Energy is trying to sell the smart grid by claiming that taking total control of energy in a person’s home away from them is “consumer friendly,” and then proceeding to use false claims about supply and demand to protect the lie.
Selling your Lifestyle - 4th Amendment Violations
Then in Part 2 of this DOE booklet, that comment about two-way flow of information is another hint at what is really going to happen. The booklet states, ”A smart meter is a good example of an enabling technology that makes it possible to extract value from two-way communication in support of distributed technologies and consumer participation.”
Consumer participation? You will participate by obeying what the power company forces you to do. But it gets much worse than that. Extracting Value? You see, once smart meters are on every house, they will be recording everything you do in your house in precise detail, and sending that information using microwave energy, to the utility, and to third party marketers. Industry analysts have revealed that once the entire smart grid is deployed, the intimate private information collected and sold to third parties will be worth more to the utility than the electricity you are buying!
Here is a simplified graph of what your smart meter tells your utility.
Your electric supplier will soon know all about your daily schedule and the appliances you use, all without your consent. That is an obvious violation of the 4th Amendment – “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . . “
Since your appliances, and your smart meter will also all have access to your home WiFi network through the Zigbee protocol, it is also possible for the utility or third party companies to look into your computer on the same network and learn much more about you; an outrageous extension of 4th amendment abuse.
This is a quick and simple introduction to the intrusive nature of the smart grid and the smart meter. But that is only part of the problem. If the government was doing this, with nothing else involved, that would already be a dangerous unconstitutionalloss of personal freedom and individual control over your life. But it gets worse. Many people find that their power bill goes up dramatically as soon as a smart meter is installed; as much as 100% and more, and the utility refuses to make any adjustments. But the increased cost is still not the most serious problem.
The Health Effects and Safety Concerns
There is no concern from the government about the health effects of having 15 appliances in your home that are all broadcasting Wi-Fi 24 hours a day to your router and smart meter. And smart meters themselves are very dangerous to health. There are many people who become ill as soon as a smart meter is placed on the wall of their home, from the electromagnetic radiation produced by the broadcasting, and the dirty electricity created by the powering of the electronics in the meter. Also, it turns out, that these smart meters have a bad habit of bursting into flames and causing severe damage to homes.
Examine a few examples of government propaganda vs actual scientific research results:
The American Cancer Society
"Smart meters have not been studied to see if they cause health problems. Studies have looked at RF radiation from other sources. Exposure to large amounts of RF radiation, as from accidents involving radar, has resulted in severe burns. No other serious health problems have been reported."
Harvard Medical Doctor (2011)
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. He says there have been no studies of smart meter effects in homes at that time (2011), but goes on to say that there is, in fact, ample evidence that demonstrates “convincingly and consistently” that exposure to radio-frequency 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.
Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need for Analog Option
From whatissmartgrid.org - a smart grid industry website
MYTH #2: Smart meters are a health threat because they communicate using wireless signals.
TRUTH: In-depth review of the scientific literature by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the small amount of radio frequency (RF) energy produced by smart meters is not harmful to human health. RF emitted by smart meters is well below the limits set by Federal Communications Commission and it is below levels produced by other common household devices like cell phones, baby monitors, satellite TVs, and microwaves. . . . . No credible evidence shows any threat to human health from RF emissions at or below RF exposure limits developed by the FCC. With over 25,000 articles published on the topic over the last 30 years, scientific knowledge in this area is now more extensive than for most chemicals.
From the movie Take Back Your Power
Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt shows that blood work confirms adverse health effects following active smart meter exposure. Blood testing reveals a number of measurable effects including significant elevations in the inflammatory markers TGF-beta 1 and MMP-9. Copper serum levels also rise, which is a sign of chronic inflammation, and hormones and neurotransmitter levels are adversely affected. Darkfield microscopy analysis of blood samples after short exposure shows blood cells literally degrading, deforming, and coming apart.
Live Blood Analysis - Observable Effects of RF/MW Radiation via Smart Meters
From the Huffington Post 2013
"So what are the scientific facts here? To begin with, smart meters use basically the same wireless technology as cell phones. The FCC, after reviewing many scientific studies, has set wireless radiation standards, with which all manufacturers of smart meters easily comply. The frequency of cellular technology microwave radiation corresponds to a wavelength of approximately 30 centimeters, or roughly one foot. This wavelength is thousands of times larger than structures in the brain responsible for mental processes, and so claims that wireless radiation can cause maladies such as “dizziness” or “memory loss” are absurd."
What is absurd is thinking that the nominal wavelength of pulsed electromagnetic energy is somehow related to whether or not it can affect the brain! And note that it is always the irrelevant, thermal damage based FCC "standard" that is quoted by people like this. This deliberate misdirection is discussed in several other places on this website. Other nonsense from the article quoted above - "Smart meters only transmit data for roughly 1.4 seconds per day, at very low wattage."
Similar statements about minimal transmitting by smart meters have been made by utilities. An administrative law judge in California ordered all investor owned utilities to answer questions about smart meter emissions. PG&E finally admitted that the average number of RF pulses for their smart meter would be about 10,000, per meter, per day and the maximum number could be over190,000. 90% of these pulses are for the mesh network maintenance (signals bouncing between homes) and only 6 pulses are for reading the meter data. And this doesn’t include Home Area Network transmissions. How about peak power figures? The PG&E electric meter transmits at 900MHz with 1 watt of transmit power. It has an antennae gain 4.0 dBi for a peak level power of 2.5 watts. That’s two and a half times more than their safety data stated.
