A few years back California forced everyone to start using “smart” electric meters.
Posted by Novusor
A few years back California forced everyone to start using “smart” electric meters.
Posted by Novusor
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Are smart meters to blame for the wild fires being completely out of control. The houses burn down but the trees are fine. This happened at the Paradise fire as well in 2018. Trees are fine but houses burn to dust. Only happens in California where the mandate the use of smart meters. Theory seems plausible.
No
So, blame the batteries instead of the wind and climate change. Anything to protect the oil giants.
A home’s very thin and small copper wires being the vector for starting fires around the house instead of the fire tornado happening outside is a very funny idea.
Entirely wooded areas with no homes burnt for days. I actually live in LA. half the homes that burnt down in pacific palisades and Malibu were pre 1970’s wood and stud built homes.
melting point of copper is 1900. So if this thing explodes to 6000 degrees, it’s going to instantly cut itself off from the inside of the house.
Having worked extensively with both copper as a thermal conductor and lithium batteries before, this isn’t realistic.
The tiny lithium battery in a smart meter doesn’t have enough thermal energy to heat all of the wires in your house to the point that spontaneous combustion occurs. This is, of course, assuming that the battery actually stays connected to the rest of the wiring in the house instead of melting off from the heat. Your house is far more likely to catch on fire from something cheap you have plugged in inside shorting and catching on fire.
In addition to that, American houses are more flammable than a healthy tree because they are literally made using the dried out wood of dead trees. The paper thin walls which provide airflow when damaged don’t help either
The same type of batteries are in all cell phones.
“Smart meters” are nefarious enough without this claim.
Personally, I can’t see a device used to monitor, control and throttle usage wanting to destroy the customer base.
There’s gold in them there data collections!
Go into your house and find all the lithium ion batteries I promise you there are tons more than you think. There’s no way the tiny lithium ion batteries in smart thermostats are to blame. More likely climate change, deforestation, the unnecessary building of oversized homes just a sign of status in an area that has naturally occurring forest fires.
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As a mechanic I don’t buy this.
The amount of energy in two gas tanks in most garages – let alone in Natural Gas pipes before they are turned off – let alone in frame construction……put that to shame.
No, total BS IMHO.
Until someone links to why and how UL destructive tests on these caused what is claimed, I say total BS.
The size of a battery in a smart meter
“Key points about smart meter batteries:
* **Battery type:** Primarily Lithium Thionyl Chloride (LiSOCl2)
* **Size:** Often comparable to a “D” size battery
* **Voltage:** Around 3.6V”
Ah, so the battery of a size D burned down the area!
Is anyone here a basic mechanic, engineer or even a human with common sense? Next thing you will tell us is that phone and laptop batteries fed back into the charging outlets and heated the wires red hot.
Oh, there is a thing called “circuit breaker” which trips when something shorts out. Check my work here – the Meter is on the far side (not on the house side) of the panel, so once circuits trip no energy can really be fed down those wires and burn them. Lastly – let’s play pretend – if we intentionally heated up all the wires in a house most would be in air-starved enclosed walls, etc……and not something that is going to instantly consume a home……compared to large chunks of burning wood and trees falling all over said house.
This is the dumbest “theory” in a long list of dumb theories. Have a guess why an electricity meter doesn’t need a lithium ion battery.
Remember what Abraham Lincoln said about believing everything you read on Facebook.