Overhead high voltage lines

Hi everyone,

Although I realise my question is not actually "electronics" related, I thought I might ask the question here as its "electricity" related.

I'm looking at houses, and one of the areas in which I'm looking has quite a few of the massive overhead power lines on the big metal towers. No doubt you're aware that people fear the EMF generated by such lines, and I wondered is it really worth worrying about, or are there any known facts relating to what could possibly result in the potential for radiation injuries and/or cancer, etc from continued exposure to the generated fields.

Any opinions or useful web sites on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation,

Adam

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Adam
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"Adam" = brainless TROLL

** Just Google " power lines cancer " .

Take your paranoid, conspiracy theory TROLLING elsewhere.

....... Phil

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Phil Allison

**I hope you don't use a cell 'phone. The radiation from one of those puppies, 1cm from your noggin is MUCH worse than power lines 10 Metres off the ground. And for heavan's sake don't EVER lie on a bed with an electric blanket! Don't forget that pesky inverse square law stuff, which I'm certain you remember from high school. With a leccy blanky, you're on it for upwards of 8 HOURS and it is close contact with your body for that time. Additionally, it is generally thought that the frequency of the waveform is more harmful as it is increased (those pesky cell 'phones again), so 50Hz from power lines 10 Metres up is pretty much unlikely to do any damage at all.

Cell 'phones, OTOH, are a more serious worry. I am convinced that all the data is yet to be properly collated from these things. And I don't mean cell 'phone towers either (inverse square law and all that).

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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au
Reply to
Trevor Wilson

Don't buy a house under or near big power lines. Regardless of whether or not there is any real health risk, your resale value will SUCK.

Dave :)

Reply to
David L. Jones

There has been some tests done recently that detect electrostatic trapping of atmospheric pollutants around HV powerlines so the combination of pollution and HV powerlines is not good.

Reply to
Mark Harriss

From energex website

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Dont ever use a hairdrier or electric blanket!!

Reply to
The Real Andy

I use some serious power on Hf ( radio operator) and once measured the emf in the shack

frightened me till I remembered at least I know whats gonna finish me :)

Reply to
atec 77

Unless it's at the end of an airport runway ...

Reply to
swanny

Then obviously the current/previous owners resale value will suck and YOU will get a bargain :-) The relative increase over time will almost certainly be similar to any other house in the wider area.

MrT.

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Mr.T

Then obviously the current/previous owners resale value will suck and YOU will get a bargain :-) The relative increase over time will almost certainly be similar to any other house in the wider area.

MrT.

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Mr.T

If you can find someone who will buy it. There are other disadvantages too, like any money spent on upgrading a house under a power line is a much worse investment than the same money spent on one not under power lines. Houses under power lines get a vastly lower number of potential buyers, so when it's time to sell, you have less chance of getting a sucker paying a high price, or people outbiding each other in a frenzy market etc.

Dave :)

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David L. Jones

resale

YOU

All of which acts in your favour when you're looking to buy a house to live in, rather than an investment property. The health aspect would be less of a worry for an investment property though :-)

MrT.

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Mr.T

"Two Bob" wrote

For ages now I was wondering if you were a wanker or not. Now you have proven it to me. My most service calls have been due to electronic equipment below, or near major power lines.

***** Pot,kettle,black,wotta lame brained wanker!!!!!!!!!!

Brian g.

Reply to
Brian Goldsmith.

Oh no, shock horror shock - the Quad ESLs have turned into tarted up disco speakers. doof doof doof....

Reply to
Alan Rutlidge

I don't think you understand what trolling is. This may help . You will find the last sentence particularly illuminating so I'll repeat it here "It's perhaps worth mentioning that not everything you personally find offensive is necessarily a troll."

Reply to
David Segall

The effects are well known and quantified. There is some debate as to safe living distances. You can be confident that Swedish standards are pretty safe. Google it.

geoff

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Geoff

"David Segall"

** No it is YOU that does not have a clue what TROLLING is.
** Nope - cos it is a completely inadequate definition.

There are many far better and more complete defs of trolling to be found.

Ones that include posts that are way off topic on somebody's hobby horse.

....... Phil

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Phil Allison

For ages now I was wondering if you were a wanker or not. Now you have proven it to me. My most service calls have been due to electronic equipment below, or near major power lines. You should limit your replies to your very basic experience in kiddy hi-fi. When you expand your knowledge beyond kiddy doof doof, then you might be qualified to comment on real world problems.

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Two Bob

Ditto

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Two Bob

OK, well, its good to see that my GENUINE question has prompted some discussion, and also allowed certain members of the newsgroup to vent some anger in the direction of other individuals. This has abviously been building up for some time, so in that regard, I'm glad I have helped.

To the people who ACTUALLY made an attempts to relay wisdom relating to the question I asked (basically the second half of the comments that I have seen so far) I say thank you. I will have a look at the site/s you have shown me. I appreciate your time.

To the rest of you, OK, now back to abusing and yelling at each other...

Adam

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Adam

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