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Are Smart Meters Hazardous To Your Health?
Posted July 13, 2012
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We all need energy to survive. That’s just the facts in our modern society. The problem is
that producing energy is a dirty business, and actually burning it’s even worse. Since we
can’t give up on fossil fuels all at once (although we do have the capacity to produce
plenty of clean, affordable energy without them) conservation is often advocated as a
way to minimize both cost and negative impacts.
The easiest way to manage and conserve energy is to simply use less of it. Turning off
lights when they’re not needed, opting for fans instead of air conditioning, fixing leaky
windows and faucets, and replacing wasteful incandescent bulbs with more efficient
CFLs and LEDs are all relatively low-stress ways to shrink your energy usage. The only
problem is these methods require diligence and determination, two things that can be
hard to come by when the temperature is 105 degrees or you’ve got forgetful kids.
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So, we’ve come up with more sophisticated ways to monitor and control energy
consumption. One of the biggest changes has been to replace the old analog utility
meters with “smart meters,” digital devices that not only record energy usage, but track