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100% Certainty of Total Catastrophic Failure of the Entire Power Infrastructure Within 3 Years

- Mac Slavo - Shtf

This article reaks of uninformed paranoia.

Although enacting a "smart grid" imposes some risks, most power distribution systems incorporate many redundancies. We are so reliant on power these days, utilities typically have built in backups. If a section of power grid goes down somewhere from a fault, there are devices called sectionalizers located adjacent to the affected areas that pick up the load. Unless you're in a remote community, this is typically a very short outage.

Health concerns from radiation emissions from new smart meters has been debunked. The meters transmit for less than 1 minute a day, and even with 30 of them transmitting simultaneously, it was less radiation than a cell phone call.

Don't forget, engineers and technicians run the grid, not economists. There is a ton of non-sensical, uninformed opinions in this article that you should take with a boulder of salt.

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Beginning of the headline :As smart grid metering systems expand across the developed world, many are starting to ask whether the threats posed by the new devices, which officials promise will save energy and reduce end user utility costs, outweigh their benefits. In addition to documentedhealth concerns resulting from radiation emissions and no cost savings being apparent, opponents of the technology argue that smart meters areviolative of basic privacy rights and give the government yet another digital node of unfettered access to monitor and control personal electricity consumption... Read More

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