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Some utility emitted by “smart” meters reaching the interior residential community can be well within three

customers of a home can be comparable to radiation levels hundred feet of several near and next-nearest
found within two hundred to six hundred feet of neighbors. Thus, even at the distance of a foot-
complain that a cell tower. She warns: “If you think of a strobe ball field, EMR from many surrounding meters
opt-out fees are light or a laser in the eyes, it is intermittent but could prove biologically significant, even for
reminiscent of powerfully disabling if you are forced to endure those who retain their analog meters. Residents
it. [“Smart” meter] signals may be short bursts of townhouses, condos and apartment buildings
extortion from of RF (this depends on the meter and how utili- may be especially vulnerable when ten or twenty
old-time ties choose to operate) but... it is a continual 24/7 meters or more are installed on one wall.
Also, an opt-out does not resolve the hazards
protection battering of the body with cellular insults.” 17 of dirty electricity polluting a neighborhood
thugs. THE PAY-US-NOT-TO-HURT-YOU RACKET loaded with AMI meters. Nor does it protect

Due to public uproar, some utility companies people who don’t have enough information to
unleashing “smart” meter systems are offering request an opt-out, but who may one day develop
opt-out programs. Opt-out often requires those illnesses from EMR exposure.
who refuse “smart” meters to pay one or more Living in rural areas does not solve the
fees for the right to keep their older and safer problem. Some rural utilities serving mountain-
analog meters. Some complain that the fees are ous and/or forested areas may choose to deploy
reminiscent of extortion from old-time protection AMI metering solutions like those provided by
thugs. Tantalus Systems Corp. Tantalus creates hybrid
Requesting an opt-out is definitely a first “smart” antenna systems, utilizing a variety of
step to protecting one’s own home from harmful, frequency signals that can travel through and
microwave emissions. But it does not address around obstacles in their quest to “connect.” 18
exposure to EMR from neighboring meters, or As with other frequency fields deployed by AMI,
from mesh pole transmitters on the grid. EMR no studies of the biological effects of such public
from some meters can be measured over three exposure have been conducted.
hundred feet away. A single-family home in a

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