Dear Friends, Here is an eminently clear and reasonable email from Robert Palma about Alliant Energy’s recent mailings.
Robert is a highly accomplished electrical engineer who led large teams developing satellites and now lives in Fairfield, where his businesses include Midwest Research and RFReduce.com. Forwarded from: Engineer <engin...@rfreduce.com> Dear Friends, I am responding to numerous communications from family and friends that were received via email and telephone, concerning the recent mailings from the Alliant utility with regard to the utility's demand for yet another "registration" of your desire to not have radiating utility meters and to keep your Analog meters (if you currently have one/them). It is important to point out that Kathy Matara, Intervenor, is the authority to speak with on this matter, but I do not want to ignore the many direct communications that I have received, hence this short note. Throughout history, organizations such as governments, those in commerce, and others, who seek to control and/or oppress humanity, chant the same "mantra". "Do what we tell you and don't complain." Quite the contrary, you are encouraged to complain via the IUB web link that was provided to you in the recent email broadcast from Safe Technologies Fairfield on Thursday evening of last week. On two occasions that I am aware of, and at one of those occasions I was present, Marc Shuling, Consumer Advocate for Iowa, not only encouraged the community to complain to the IUB (Iowa Utilities Board), but he insisted that it was the only way to succeed. He told us to "beat the bushes" and get everyone to tell the IUB that we are unhappy with the situation. He said that otherwise, the IUB will assume that you are happy with the situation. There is a long list of concerns that have been sent to me from many of you.. Just a few of them are: -- We thought we had settled this with the utility already. We jumped through all of their hoops already. What is this all about? -- The 30 day time frame is unreasonably short for any process such as this.. It creates fear and puts the consumers into a panic. -- Further, the imposition of a short time frame in the light of the global disruption from a virus, when some people may be away from home and forcibly sequestered in states or countries and cannot respond, is much more than, unreasonable. About the so-called "low pulsing" options: 1. Intervenor Kathy Matara presented in the IUB Hearing last year, the work of Dr. Ronald Powell, Physicist, on the number of pulses of smart meters, where he included the EMF/RF from neighbor's smart meters. Rather than the advertised "once per month" or a "few pulses per month" from a meter on the side of your house, Dr. Powell found that a home or business is affected by smart meters within 100 yard distance from your location (100 yards in all directions). In application of Dr. Powell's study to the downtown Fairfield area, it was found that many locations in the downtown area, could be experiencing 10,000's of pulses per week, when using these so-called "low pulsing" approaches. You can read the report that is part of the Hearing testimony: http://rfreduce.com/robertsblog/dl/Smart-meter-Pulses-In-Dense-MIXED-Neighborhoods-,OptOut_OnDemand_Rev-1.pdf <http://rfreduce.com/robertsblog/dl/Smart-meter-Pulses-In-Dense-MIXED-Neighborhoods-,OptOut_OnDemand_Rev-1.pdf> 2. Remember that a so-called low pulsing smart utility meter has other characteristics that many people find objectionable. Just a few of them are: -- the meter may emit microwave radiation with the Bluetooth or other protocol, to attempt to connect with similarly equipped "smart appliances". The amount of this radiation could be considerable. -- the meter is collecting usage information from you and in-effect profiling your daily habits. Many people consider this an invasion of privacy. -- the meter has a power switch inside of it, to completely shut down your power, and there is the concern that this switch has been the cause of many smart meter fires in the past. -- the switch mode power supply in the smart meter creates Dirty Electricity that circulates on the wiring in your home/office and thereby radiates Dirty Electricity Electric and Magnetic fields, into your dwelling, that put voltages and currents into your body -- the utility has not in any way promised/guaranteed that whatever the "low pulsing weekly count" is, that is being proposed now, will not be changed, including, increased, in the future. A final note. I am not aware of any way, that filing complaints now, would bring a disadvantage to you, in the future. Again, the Iowa Consumer Advocate has advised, to make your voice heard. Again, Kathy Matara, Intervenor, is the authority to speak with on this matter, and will provide you complete information. This note is just a courtesy in response to many incoming emails and phone calls. Just a reminder that all of these kinds of articles include opinions of the author. Blessings to All, Robert Palma
