I'm lucky so far in that the smartest meter on offer here is a shiny new one (new gas meter just installed free of charge) that wheeezes and clunks a shade less than the old one did, it doesn't have any link to the internet, and we have to trudge 50m across the garden to read the meter once a month (what a terrible inconvenience to us) and phone-in the reading using a f.o.c. text message.
What I'm hearing about (real) Smart Meters is quite horrifying TBH, both on the matter of data collection /storage /and dissemination and in terms of the pending 5G ... BIG BRUVVER Syndrome and all the health scare issues. It appears there's no evidence whatsoever that it's safe (and that goes for current mobile phone use and 4G wi-fi).
There is the scary scenario that by the time our kids are old enough to have babies, the damage from Mobile Phones (which came into popular widespread use about 15 years ago) and exposure to 4G wi-fi may come to light with birth deformities and goodness knows what (way too late to do anything about it) and the power and exposure of 5G is purported to be some 25 higher than current 4G ....
if I've understood anything that's available ... that being
nothing available that's reliable.
So what seems to be the trend these days is that we're led by greedy rich fat bastard business into tumbling headlong into life-changing "progress" that suits us as a convenience, yet we know sweet nothing (officially) of the side effects or other damaging consequences (if any) ... a bit like the BREXIT fiasco where nobody knows anything about either side of the arguments, all a mixture of hypothesis and downright lies...
Go on yootoob and there you'll find all sorts of scaremongering about mobile phones and microwaves, 5G scares, 4G scares, personal accounts of cancers caused by mobile phone use, birth defects as a consequence of 4G wi-fi exposure, along with the Conservative Party and the flat earth brigade and the "
nobody's ever been to the moon or even into anything higher than low earth orbit because it's impossible to go deeper into space and come back alive" brigade... the 911 conspiracy bunch, California fires caused by space-based military lasers, and so it goes on....
In truth, we're all mushrooms so let's all drink and be merry and phone our mates until our ears and brains get fried... and tumble off the extinction cliff following the lemming in front of us... nobody cares and nobody does any, or publishes any, properly reliable research into these things.
I'm just glad I'm too old to worry about the future, it's going to happen the way it will happen, whatever us mortals try and do about it.... I can't really bring myself to care much anymore.
And, what about the damaging fine particles that my 80 is supposed to have been emitting for the last 23 years, I should be utterly ashamed of myself... when big business sponsored ships and aircraft are freely spewing millions of tons of the stuff daily without a sniff of complaint from our big business gov'ners...
what a load of effin bollox
Sorry, rant over