17-11-2021, 19:34
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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Don't you trust Boris to keep the lights on ? So much for sunlit uplands...
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That's not sunlit it's candlelit
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17-11-2021, 19:46
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
I think this is verring off course, back to the topic please.
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18-11-2021, 14:46
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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So are we planning to move to candles and a pot over an open fire ? I guess the next virgin price hike would not bother anyone then
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You've been reading wee Greta's notes again...
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20-11-2021, 20:20
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I think this is verring off course, back to the topic please.
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Thank you Paul........ Its hard sometimes to keep threads on topic....
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So are we planning to move to candles and a pot over an open fire ?
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Ah man!!
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Smart meters are the enablers for what they haven't told you.
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Yes and there is ALOT they havent told you!! (They can be a health risk for one)
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This first 3 couldn't even pronounce my name anywhere near correctly, and the last one gave the wrong energy supplier.
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Hehe you should have given a bogus address and sent them there
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20-11-2021, 20:51
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
In what way can smart meters be a health risk, please?
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20-11-2021, 22:02
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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In what way can smart meters be a health risk, please?
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Cost you more money and you die of hypothermia or starvation.
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20-11-2021, 22:18
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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Cost you more money and you die of hypothermia or starvation.
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for once I agree with you.
The cost you more can happen when the old meter has been wrong or they are just wrong. And seeing how much your heating costs can make you think noooooo hahaha
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20-11-2021, 22:24
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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In what way can smart meters be a health risk, please?
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Cost you more money and you die of hypothermia or starvation.
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They could also fall on your head, but I don't think either of us know what the OP meant, so hopefully he'll tell us...
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20-11-2021, 22:27
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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They could also fall on your head, but I don't think either of us know what the OP meant, so hopefully he'll tell us...
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wasn't there a conspiracy theory that they give up some dodgy rays that melt your brain or something equally as stupid as still running windows 98??
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20-11-2021, 22:31
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
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wasn't there a conspiracy theory that they give up some dodgy rays that melt your brain or something equally as stupid as still running windows 98??
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Think that was 5G . . or Plasma TV's . . or Air Fryers . . or red smarties . . or quorn. . or sumfink
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20-11-2021, 23:33
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
Well Smart Meters do emit radiation.
Of course, so do many other things, like your mobile phone.
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While smart meters do emit radiation, it’s much lower than that from other everyday devices such as your mobile phone and your Wi-Fi equipment. Evidence suggests that exposures to the radio waves produced by smart meters do not pose a health risk.
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21-11-2021, 09:04
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
The way they push smart metres is incredibly suspicious. I've seen videos from American companies that just outright lie that they are needed so they don't generate energy at unused hours.
They keep pushing the green angle, but that is almost non existent. The only benefit is that having a display in your house may (if you are paying attention) make you more conscious of the energy you are wasting.
It may just be so they don't have to pay metre readers but there is clearly an angle that benefits the company more than the customer.
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21-11-2021, 10:05
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
I worked for Npower - the energy companies in the U.K. didn’t/don’t want Smart Meters; it was mandated by HMG, at a cost of of around £15-20 billion so far (which eventually is paid for by the customers), and the companies get fined for not meeting roll-out targets.
Here’s the latest on it from OFGEM.
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/defau...s_2021_002.pdf
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Rollout from 1 July 2021 onwards
From July 2021, suppliers must comply with a new regulatory framework for the rollout as confirmed by BEIS on 18 June 2020. The framework will set binding annual installation targets for all suppliers in the market and will run until mid-2025. Failure to achieve the annual installation targets will be a breach of a supplier’s licence.
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21-11-2021, 11:08
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
As far as I am concerned that is all spin trying to blag the public
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21-11-2021, 11:45
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Re: The Smart Meter Con
I was at the Senior Management meetings where it was discussed (I was Head of Programmes for Billing Systems Remediation), so you can either believe someone who heard it repeated many times at many different meetings from the Npower Board directly, or not - your choice.
I have no skin in the game - I left after a year because it was such a fustercluck of a company, and am now retired.
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