Hi Texas,
Yes, I tried the info AT bansmartmeters DOT.com site. I’ll try again. Thanks so much!

Hi SOSFlorida! Did you try emailing “info AT bansmartmeters.com”? Or leave a comment on one of the posts with your email address and we’ll delete the comment as soon as we get it. Thanks!

Texas Ban Smart Meters:
I have tried to get into your message site – it is just not going to let me! My computer problems are suspect! I used to live in the Spring Hill area and have family also in that area. SPRING HILL: PLEASE SEND YOUR COMPLAINT TO THE PSC, SEN. RUBIO AND THE TRIB. SADLY, GOV. SCOTT IS NO HELP.
THANK YOU TEXAS.

Texas friends,
Any networking is greatly appreciated. The WORD is just not getting out. It seems that there is a blackout. I did have one front page interview but that seems to be the end of it. God Help Us!!!

****BOYCOTT MAKERS OF METERS: GE AND NBC

The Home Area Networks or HAN’s what PG&E calls them are not the power grid, they are stand alone systems that are entirely paid for by the customers should they choose to install them in their homes.
PG&E is proposing to use 2 different systems, the HomePlug powerline carrier system to control air compressor motors for air conditioning units in multi-family condo-apartment buildings (shared common walls), and the ZigBee radio system for single family detached houses.
The new radio meters are transmitting a low power radio frequency to facilitate the implementation of this system in PG&E territory in the distant future, but so far the meters are transmitting the 2405 MHz signals (considered microwave by most professionals) for the ZigBee controls for nothing into peoples houses. The system is not ready yet, and most people will not buy it anyway.
I was down at Home Depot the other day, and I decided to investigate the appliance department. I looked at all these shiny new stainless steel appliances, but not one of them were equipped with the transmitters for the ZigBee system. I talked to a senior sales person, he said that he did not know anything about the system, but he heard that in Sweden they were using it !.
This whole Home Area Networks program is nothing but a bunch of marketing and sales hype cooked up by the corporately run government. Obama gave $50 million to Whirlpool of our tax money to start installing the chips in their new appliances, but so far, none have been released to the market yet. People who don’t want the system simply will not buy it.
In these tight economic times, people are going to put off buying new appliances as long as they can, but if they absolutely need a new appliance, they are not going to waste extra money on a useless system of monitoring, all that they have to do is read the rating plate on every manufactured appliance and device to determine the current draw. It’s real simple, even an elementary school student can do it.
It is great that these people are having these meetings and are trying to educate one another about the HAN’s, but those systems are just a big marketing scam, and those HAN’s will control only motors for air conditioning units compressors, they will leave the fans on so the people will not know that the cooling has been turned off. That is , until the temperature gets to be 90 degrees inside the building.
Many parts of the country are heavily reliant on air conditioning to be comfortable, and air conditioning is by far the largest electrical load in these hot areas. That is what the HAN’s are all about. Heating can be done with other fuels.
Don’t fall for the hyperbole.

SOS Florida:
We just got an email from someone in Florida (Spring Hill) who just learned about how awful smart meters are, then discovered they already had one. I could pass on your info if you’d like. info AT bansmartmeters DOT com

Mr.Williams,
I have read several of your very cogent messages on Smart Meters, some in states other than CA. Thank you for spreading the truth! Would you please consider spreading the word via editorials etc. in the Orlando Sentinal, Tampa Tribune, Miami Herald, St.Pete Times, Palm Beach Post etc.? I’m trying but the word is not getting out. WE ARE IN TROUBLE.

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