Yours is a typical snarky ad hominem comment of someone on the wrong side of this issue who knows your dream is crumbling. Good luck with your smart meter Chad.

Hi Chad, Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately you’re not entirely correct. Smart meters emit about 5x the strength of a cell phone. The data that we have- and it is sketchy as PG&E has not supplied complete information on EMF emissions- is that the ‘smart’ meters emit a burst of EMF every 45 seconds- more if your meter acts as a ‘repeater’ for up to 1000 other households. When Darbee claims that smart meters are only “13,000th” the strength of a cell phone, he is using time averaged data– and this is not being honest about peak emissions. If you have a bank of 30 of these things right next to a child’s bedroom that is not an insignificant amount of new radiation. We’re not saying that smart meters are in a league above other consumer electronic wireless devices. What we are saying is that FCC guidelines governing the safety of all of them is totally inadequate and not evidence based. The smart meters will introduce a significant level of new ‘electrosmog’ to our communities- including near those for whom this pollution causes health impacts and those who’d like to avoid this radiation. It’s not okay to roll out this program and force radiation onto those who don’t want it. They never asked us whether we wanted these new meters, and now that dozens of local govts are saying no, they’re saying ‘we don’t care.’

In regards to accuracy, Smart Meters are proven far more accurate than the legacy analog meters. As far as I can tell, SVNASM should stand for Self-proclaimed Victims Negligently Accusing Smart Meters.