Thanks, Awsum, for bringing this to my attention. I'm not sure how dangerous smart meters are, and I read up a little on it, and no one else seems to be, either -- see
Smart Meter Wars | EnergyBiz -- but they certainly shouldn't jail people for objecting. I think the local police just didn't know what to do. Sort of like a parent with a defiant teenager. Do you just let it go, maybe provoking worse defiance of the law later, or do you come to blows over it? It's something every parent has probably had to deal with, though not to such extremes, possibly. And as I read, I thought of other questions, like the hours I spend by my computer, which is not plugged in to the Internet but receives its signal wirelessly. And cell phones, which were mentioned. And all those other wireless devices people use. Might there be a cumulative effect? And, even if some of the radio transmissions are sporadic, such as using your microwave oven, might the smart meters be transmitting more frequently or constantly? And how many people does it really affect? There are people sensitive to all sorts of things, which doesn't mean we should ban their general use, if the percentage of people is small. Some of this may even be in your list of overprotecting people. I've heard of cases where people who lived under power lines had problems, and others had problems with those huge windmills on mountaintops that generate wind power. People can believe any problem they experience is from something like that, when it might just be seasonal allergies or whatever. Till studies are done, no one knows.
So the question is, should we go ahead with stuff that could possibly be a safety concern for some people? For everyone? Should we let this stuff happen before scientific studies have been done on the safety? Is this a bit like the current controversy over vaping?
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