More bad science. There have been countless reports on the effects of electro-magnetic waves on humans. You can take an IQ test under the genenerator at Hoover Dam, and re-take the IQ test in the middle of a meadow ... no significant difference.
We are surrounded by electromagnetic waves, and the studies have found that we are simply not affected by them, at the levels and frequencies used for power distribution (not so much for microwaves). There were even decade long studies of cattle raised in fields beneath electrical tranmission lines - the levels of cancer, deformed calves, tumors and other malignant problems were comparable to the control group.
However, a few milligrams of caffeine, LSD, sugar, alcohol or any other chemical can have dramatic affects on us. Electicity and Electro-magnetic waves - not so much.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. People die, people get sick - just like the Breast Cancer scare, bad science benefits no one, except lawyers.
Well said.
My company occssionally does engineering work for the power companies.
They do occassionally have issues with voltage bleeding outside of their property. They have equipment to measure this; and, the remedy is usually to install a masonary wall panel, as the fencing, instead of chain link.
Now this isn’t some mysterious magnetic field cause learning disabilities...this is people getting small shocks when they touch metal things in their homes.
It has always been the substations also...the transmission lines people complain about are sufficiently high, and in a wide enough easement, to have no chance of any harmful electromagnetic radiation on adjacent property...and bleed voltage seems like an impossibility.
So...not knowing anything about this case, I’d say the utility company will just build a wall, or make the existing wall taller.
***There have been countless reports on the effects of electro-magnetic waves on humans.***
The power of suggestion. Back in the 1980s the wackos began to claim of problems from stray voltages. It then spread through out all the new agers (New Agers, women and children hit hardest!). Some snake oil quacks began to claim they could test a home and show you the most dangerous places in a house.
People began to fear having overhead power lines above them.
I live near a 345 MW power plant. The land the power lines crossed was pasture for years, then someone bought it, subdivided lots, and nice homes have been built with the power lines next to them. There have been NO PROBLEMS with stray voltage.
Substations have ground wires to bleed off stray voltage.