Living close to power lines ?

Zack101 said:
I have a pylon in my garden or 2 legs of one anyway. Yes there is a buzzing in rain or fog but you can't hear it from inside, it's no problem really. It doesn't appear to effect TV mobile wifi or any signal. Does affect the house price of course but that just means you pay less when you buy it, don't know about selling it I think this house was on the market for some time before I bought it so probably puts some people off.
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Feek said:
The only problem is that when you come to sell, many people won't even look at the property because they've been brainwashed into the 'lol cancer' train of thought.
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I have to say it must depend on the area, since our house price has never been affected by the pylon/lines....

Weird.
 
I had a mate who suffered from cancer for most of his life. I just knew him through a computer club and speaking over the phone.
After a few years I took a bus journey to visit him one day to check out his rig, he had like the ultimate Amiga A4000 beast of a thing
Anyway over his back wall metres away was an electricity sub station. I never seen anyone actually living next to one though we have a transformer down the road, its just one

Obviously I didnt say anything as its just a theory and Im sure he was familar and he wasnt really into discussing his condition

Unfortunately that was the last time I saw him, I got a letter from him and meant to phone him back but by the time I did he had gone. I never realised his cancer had turned from a childhood less serious type into the full blown condition and that was why he had invited me up for the day, he was gone not that long after.


My personal take is its a bs idea. Too simple a connection with no supporting evidence but I could be wrong and that did seem a bit of a coincidence.
If you walk under very strong power lines, they do buzz and crackle quite a bit, I used walk home for miles under some. I can see why people would assume they radiate badness as they are quite ominous
 
dal said:
Hi all, Im found a house which I like BUT it is about 50ft away from power lines :(( allways somthing ), I've had a google of this but the research seems inconclusive, I personally dont think there is a health risk living close to them what bothers me more is if I wanted to resell at a later date, so my question is would you buy a house or even rent close to power lines ?
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I will admit that I am very cautious, and I haven't looked into the scientific data thoroughly. However, I would not want to buy a house that had powerlines going directly over it, in particular if I was going to start a family there. It will be young children who are most at risk of cancers like leukaemia, and without having looked at it thoroughly, my gut feeling is there might be some truth to it, as certain mechanisms in the body are very complex and could be disrupted by very strong electrical fields. That said, the field strength will fall off massively with distance, by an inverse square law I believe, so as soon as the powerline gets further away, it gets much safer.

I have a mobile phone mast about 250m away which does not bother me because I believe there's the inverse square intensity fall off.

It is going to affect the value of the house because there are obviously people that are cautious like me.

Rgds
 
Mr Jack said:
Electrons are deadly. If you get any in your body it will kill you. So I bleeping well hope the insulation stops them!
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Go get some flourescent tubes and stand them up by jabbing one end in the ground underneath a set of Pylon wires and tell me nothing escapes!!

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There was a study that showed the electromagnetism attracted very high concentrations of naturally occurring carcinogenic gas (think it was Radon maybe).

Personally I wouldn't live near one.
 
i spent half my childhood playing football directly between two pylons with the lines overhead. i spent the other half in my house 400m away from said lines

I'm pretty damn healthy


the only negative effect was that we could never fly kites :(

they got took down a few years ago
 
mufc802 said:
I thought they are insulated so the electrons can't escape? Are you saying that electricity flows around in free air just like radio waves?
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Radio waves are produced with electric sparks at high frequency (on/off) an electromagnetic field is produced depending on frequency the further it will travel, Overhead lines @ 400,000 volts produce huge magnetic fields, albeit at a lower frequency. Insulators will not stop electricity jumping off the wire, It simply wants the easiest path to earth. If you climb near lines it wont think twice about leaping off the lines and zapping you.

heres a video of a switch opening in the air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkNY5xjy5k
 
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kwerk said:
EMF can also disrupt melatonin production, which is one of the reason night shift workers get more cancer (disrupted circadian rhythm). Melatonin helps protect against cancer.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-11-29-night-shift-cancer_N.htm
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Electric fields can also disrupt cell division by preventing the spindle fibres lining up correctly when dividing. This effect, harnessed in a specific way, is being used as a possible treatment for cancer. I can't say for sure what the electric fields produced by overhead pylons would do, but I'd have thought disrupting cell division means less overall cell reproduction, which means less replication of DNA and therefore less chance of DNA mutation and cancer starting. It's a lot more likely that there'll be very little, if any, effect, but it's something to think about.
 
i have a mate who has electro-sensitivity and if he stands under a pylon he feels the electricity going through his teeth and said he gets that feeling like when u put a battery in your mouth all over his gums:eek:
 
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