To the editor:
Geoff Olson should read some facts before making absurd claims. The following may help put some common sense into this discussion: A "radiated radio signal" is not "radiation." The transmitted signal from smart meters lasts a trivial 30 seconds per day, not "24/7" as Olson claimed.
All smart meters are mounted on a grounded metal box that blocks most of the nearly insignificant energy of their transmission from being transmitted back into the house. Smart meter transmission levels are less than half the cautionary limits specified by the countries with the strictest levels in the world. Millions of folks talk an hour or more a day on cellphones that transmit as much as three watts of radiated power from an antenna that is less than an inch from their brain, and still the latest large-scale research shows there is no definitive evidence of harm.
Robert Wilson, Vancouver
