root@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (11/26/89)
I'm looking at a house that has power lines running at the rear edge of the property and I'm wondering if radiation of any kind from those lines might affect my computer, disks, whatever. None of the people who live there now have 11 fingers or 3 eyes or even one computer. Does anyone have any knowledge about the relative safety/danger of that environment to people and electronic devices? Thanks. -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800
Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com (11/27/89)
My advice would be to NOT buy the house. There have been several studies that have tied cancer and high tension electric lines together. A recent study even suggests that you not use an electric blanket! - Doug - Doug_B_Erdely@Cup.Portal.Com
roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (11/27/89)
In article <24509@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes: > My advice would be to NOT buy the house. There have been several studies > that have tied cancer and high tension electric lines together. A recent > study even suggests that you not use an electric blanket! I think this was taken rather out of context. The way I understood it, there wasn't any real proof one way or the other but it was recommended that pregnant women not use electric blankets only because if there is one time it is justified to be paranoid about health risks, it's when you're pregnant. Anybody who is really worried about this would do well to ignore anything heard on the net and look up the actual studies. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"
bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula) (11/28/89)
Make of this what you will: I remember a study from several years ago (10+) that a study by one of the power companies revealed that cows would hang out by 765Kv towers, but horses would not. I for a variety of reasons would not buy close to a high tension line (nasty buzzing noises, snap crackle pop & purple flashes that I have observed at one near my house during rain storms, etc...). I just can't help but feel that close proximity isn't going to do you or your computers any good. I would expect interference on TV & radio to be worse than normal also. -=- ========================================================================== Bob DeBula | Internet: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University | Disclaimer: These are my views, not the U's Davros sez: When my Daleks compute they use X-TER-MI-NALS!