PG&E Forces Smart Meters On Scotts Valley

While I was installing Solar Panels for Solar Works we would often have to look at the meters. And on several occasions the smart meters used on the gas side leaked gas. After alerting the homeowner we found them to be un-caring/not caring about their leaking smart meters. The homeowners angle was "well their new" and they "were installed by PG&E," so how could they be leaking? So on several occasions we had to call PG&E for the homeowner because they were to apathetic....
After the leaks were stopped, the PG&E techs thanked us for calling them, and stated that because we cared, we in essence stopped a natural gas explosion.
So I recommend that homeowners inspect the smart meters weekly after they have been installed.
Also I hate to say it, but smart meters are better for solar panel systems, but no corporation should be forcing anyone to use something they don't want too....

Smartmeters are the NEW GREEN technology to reduce energy consumption by informing you of what are using, when you are using it, what it really costs and how you might be able to save. All this paranoid crap about inaccuracy, "toxicity"???? or other FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) sounds like Tea Party BS but from the other side. Grow up, learn the real facts and you will welcome them into your neighborhoods. For the record, I am not associated with PG&E. I am a Clean Tech entrepreneur....as green as they come.

You're just a bunch of paranoid people afraid of change. The amount of radiation coming out of the smart meter is on the order of a cell phone, and it's being emitted many yards away from your head. The cell phone is emitting it a half inch from your brain. The inverse square law of radiated power says that the radiation you experience from the meter is 1/360,000 th of what you experience from a cell phone. So stop using cel phones first.

Some other common devices can emit similar radiation, like a microwave oven, or even a WiFi router, or a laptop computer with WiFi or mobile broadband.

How does a smart meter lead to higher electricity rates? If it does, we should sue, because the meters are supposed to allow better management of power, lowering costs.

If there is any health hazard, it's in the manufacturing of the devices. The manufacture of circuit boards could be cleaner, and the electronics manufacturing business isn't heavily unionized, so there are a lot of industrial-age problems with worker abuse and environmental lawbreaking.

The other hazard is that these meters are computers, so they can be hacked. It's possible that some people will be able to figure out how to compromise the security and get free electricity. That could be bad for the environment (and PG+E's business). They could also shut the power off - that could be good for the environment.