by Einar Flydal – 25may2023
The book “Smart meters, dirty electricity, pulses and health” by Einar Flydal and Else Nordhagen is now available in English, and you may download it for free!
A translation has been asked for to make this Norwegian book available for a larger audience. Now it is!
The book is written for the professional as well as the non-professional but interested reader. It provides a broad overview of the matter – biological, medical, technical, as well as societal and political aspects and explanations – and has a large number of references to international scientific and other literature.
Originally published in Norwegian (2021) for the general Norwegian public as well as for health service practitioners and lawyers, to provide documentation for a court case, the English version, of May 2023, is slightly generalized and updated.
You might find the book very useful if you are concerned about health impacts from the wireless radiation from smart meters as well as the impact of “dirty electricity”, whether from smart meters or other electronics, or engaged in court cases or other conflicts regarding such matters.
It is our hope that the book will spread around the world, to contribute to the fastest spreading toxic of our time: electrosmog.
Download here: https://bit.ly/45fKV3c, or full link: https://einarflydal.com/sdm_downloads/download-smartmeters-dirty-electricity-pulses-and-health-pdf/
Full reference:
Einar Flydal & Else Nordhagen: Smart meters, dirty electricity, pulses and health, 242 pages.
ISBN 978-82-692792-2-1 (PDF, download for free)
ISBN 978-82-692792-4-5 (Print, for cost of printing & shipping. Contact: post@emf-reform.org)
Extract
Preface to the English edition
The book is designed to be read as a textbook and for anyone in need of knowledge and sources –by lawyers to be able to cut and paste quotations and references to their pleadings, investigative journalists, scientific researchers within radio science as well as biology and medicine, and for lay people and those who write letters to the editor in the local newspapers. Therefore, you may also download the entire book for free as PDF. See links on the colophon page.
The book is translated from Norwegian and slightly revised: Originally, it was compiled spring 2021 to serve as documentation and collection of sources of scientific and other evidence for a court case on health effects for the deployment of “smart” electricity meters in Norway.
For the most technical parts, primarily Parts 4 and 5, we have received important contributions from former sound studio owner and engineer Erik Avnskog, now with FELO (Association for Electro-Sensitives), who to protect his own health had to dig deeply into the technicalities of pulses and dirty electricity, and from Odd Magne Hjortland, head of the EMF measurement and consultancy company EMF Consult AS, a former ship automation engineer who one day discovered that his dog’s whining systematically halted when he turned off the WiFi router. So then he started investigating the topic. They should have a big thank you! Still, we are responsible for the text.
Erik’s and Odd Magne’s personal stories are similar to our own: Einar is a retired social scientist (cand. polit. and Master of Telecom Strategy and Tech. Management), a researcher, strategy adviser and university professor on matters related to telecom and societal impact. He started to investigate the ecological footprint of telecom systems. Else is a retired ICT researcher (PhD), developer and serial entrepreneur who thought she would never get any ailments from anything ICT, until an AMS meter was installed in her home. Systematic investigations led her to the unexpected conclusion. For some years now, we have spent much of our time studying, translating and writing on the topic of EMFs, health and the environment.
Creating an English version has been a major undertaking. We are very grateful for the substantial help received with this major task! A few new references have been added, but original numbering maintained. Broken links and factual faults corrected, many references abridged and shortlinks added for the reader’s convenience, and passages have been improved as well as revised to make them less specific to a Norwegian setting.
Much material still refers to Norway and to our own writings, where further material is referenced. Still, we hope that these Norwegian only references provide valuable examples and might spur hunting for parallels in other countries. We also hope that not too much is lost in translation, and apologize for any passages not being idiomatic English.
The new pattern of morbidity long since observed by environmental medicine practitioners is about environmental stressors and the interaction between them. They provoke energy loss disorders, inflammatory disorders and weakened immune systems. The diagnoses spread out in a wide range – and are found not just in people, but in all life – both acutely and over time.
Pulsed microwave radiation and dirty electricity have long since taken their place among these environmental stressors. It is to document these two parts of the puzzle that we prepared the Norwegian original during winter 2021/22 for a case in court on electricity smart meters:
In 2018, one of us, Einar Flydal, published the book The smart meters, the law and health.* In addition to a report written by a law firm on the legal aspects of the introduction of AMS (Automatic Metering Systems) / smart meters in a Norwegian juridical context, the book gave a broad overview of the knowledge status on health effects from microwave radiation in general, and from AMS meters in particular. It became an eye-opener and a textbook for many: All of a sudden, it became understandable that quite a few people get sick from such microwave transmitters, even if the signalling from them is far weaker than the maximum exposure values recommended by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) – as well as by RPAs of the many countries which have adopted the standards by and large derived from an American physicist oriented radiation hygiene tradition. Also, it became understandable that the Radiation Protection Authority’s advice and assessments could not be trusted, as even weak pulsation may have a strong biological impact. This was briefly discussed in the book. Towards the end of the book, the strange and alien phenomenon of dirty electricity was mentioned almost in passing.
- * “Smart meters, law and health” (Z-forlag 2018), written by the law firm Advokatfirmaet Erling Grimstad AS and Einar Flydal, downloadable from https://bit.ly/3BI97h3
Now, in the spring of 2023, the vast majority of the 2.9 million smart meters for power – AMS meters – which were to be installed in Norwegian homes, are in place. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) ordered the grid companies to install new AMS meters at all measurement points, but at the same time permitted exemptions from AMS – in practice from the transmitter part. A documentation of significant inconvenience – in practice a doctor’s certificate of health problems from the radiation was demanded. The Directorate of Health then forbid doctors to issue such certificates, and issuing such certificates was also opposed by the Norwegian Medical Association, since doctors are not familiar with problems from such exposure, they are so difficult to observe and EHS – electro-hypersensitivity – is not an accepted diagnosis by the Norwegian heath authorities. The exemption option has also been under-communicated and exemptions “punished” with a separate fee. Nevertheless, by third quarter 2020 some 7,000 households were exempt with a medical certificate – allegedly because of health problems from such radiation.
In the wake of the AMS introduction, many have reported acute health problems. The ailments have often come completely unexpectedly, even when not knowing a new meter had been installed in the home, or in neighbouring houses or apartments. Such effects are today well explainable based on today’s specialist knowledge, as this book shows. And the mechanisms are increasingly better understood.
However, some people claim they get acute health problems even when the transmitter is removed. This has been even more difficult to accept and to find reasonable, and has been understood as a clear sign of superstitiousness or mental disturbance. However, this too has its explanations in physics and biophysics. The key is dirty electricity.
Pulsation and dirty electricity from AMS meters are claimed by our health and radiation authorities not to possibly cause health problems or injuries. As with the microwave signals, claiming otherwise would imply contradicting the national radiation policy. This book proves them wrong. And the prevalence of the diffuse symptoms typical from such exposure is becoming greater as the “full electrification” of society progresses. We show that such symptoms present themselves as expressions of health problems stemming both from the new meters, whether with or without a transmitter, as well as from the many other sources of electrical pulses and dirty electricity in our surroundings.
In this book we bring together information from textbooks, research papers and expert opinions in court, and we report on measurements we commissioned professionals to undertake. We explain physics, electro-science, biology as well as industry strategies. We don’t need to draw in anxiety and superstition. Tangible knowledge and solid research results – without psychologisation – do the work.
The protests against the AMS meters and against other radiation sources that destroy our living environment, are now happening all over the world – and increasingly often in the courtroom. The reasons are the same: People get sick from them – dogs, birds and insects alike.
It is reasonable to assume that as a result of the AMS meters, a significant number of Norwegians are tipped over from healthy to ill without any idea of what the cause might be, and that similar situations appeared in other countries with the introduction of AMS meters. It is our hope that this book should reach them, as well as the ones who introduce such meters. There, you readers have an important mission!
This entire field of biological impact from EMFs is a huge puzzle. Hopefully, with a little patience, this book will help you bring some of the less known pieces together!
Einar Flydal and Else Nordhagen, 24. May 2023
Extract
In a welfare society, we are dependent on having strong and legitimate actors in the infrastructure and basic welfare businesses, such as electricity, communication and health services. Legitimacy can only be upheld by providing consumers with correct and factual information, and not allowing themselves to be used in a game of hiding information, or even running such games themselves.
As consumers, workers and private individuals, we have to live with the consequences of these public or private bodies’ actions.
Therefore, we must also keep a critical eye at them, always suspecting they are failing in their role in society: Not only market players may fail, but so may also the governmental bodies set to promote the interests of society in their sector by regulations. Also, we should confront politicians leaving the setting of exposure limits to an administrative apparatus that acts neither precautionary nor knowledge-based.
This situation has been warned about for several years. Now it is time to find solutions, both for smart meters and for other devices from which we see the evidence of harmful effects. That responsibility cannot only, nor primarily, lie with the individual, but must lie with the electricity network companies, the governmental bodies such as for electricity, radiation protection, the health sector and the environment, as well as with politicians, who in the end are the ones in charge.
Source – einarflydal.com – The book “Smartmeters, Dirty Electricity, Pulses and Health”
Source – einarflydal.com – The book “Smartmeters, Dirty Electricity, Pulses and Health”
