Yabba Dabba Doo!
Posted on 06/19/2008 1:44:33 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Purchasers of hybrid vehicles, which are subsidized by the federal government and championed by environmental activists as a way to reduce gasoline consumption, are trading in their vehicles because of health fears concerning electromagnetic fields created by the hybrid batteries, says John Dale Dunn, a policy advisor for the American Council on Science and Health.
As noted in an April 27 article in the New York Times:
Some hybrid vehicle owners are complaining of a variety of health problems allegedly caused by strong electromagnetic currents from the cars' batteries. Reported ailments and concerns include rising blood pressure, drowsiness behind the wheel and higher leukemia risks. Various agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, acknowledge the potential hazards of long-term exposure to a strong electromagnetic field (E.M.F.), and have done studies on the association of cancer risks with living near high-voltage utility lines. Drivers who have given up their hybrids have reportedly documented "dangerously high" electromagnetic fields, leading them to conclude driving the vehicles is not worth risking blood for oil. This issue illustrates the double standard regarding environmental activists, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
"Environmental activists routinely use the Precautionary Principle as a weapon against technologies and products they do not like," Burnett explains. "They assert that until and unless a product they oppose can be definitively proven to be safe, the product must be banned. Now, however, when consumers and some scientists assert that one of the activists' pet products may be causing serious health harms, the activists act like they have never heard of the Precautionary Principle."
Source: John Dale Dunn, "Hybrid Vehicle Owners Report Adverse Health Effects," Heartland Institute, July 1, 2008; and Jim Motavalli, "Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk," New York Times, April 27, 2008.
For text:
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23393
For Times text:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/automobiles/27EMF.html
For more on Environment Issues:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=31
And to think of all the tens of billions we wasted burying “high-tension power lines.”
Watt these dim bulbs need too do is mind theor ohm business !
We are constantly surrounded by a multitude of low-level EM fields.
Your house wiring produces EM fields, the power lines going from pole to pole, between backyards in every neighborhood in the country, produce EM fields.
The alternator throws off a big EM field. The more it is ‘charging’, the stronger the field.
Every motor in the car throws off an EM field.
The PC at your side (or where ever) produces an EM field, and so does your phone.
The speakers in your car produce EM fields, as well as the ones in your house.
And if you have a CRT TV , it produces a very strong EM field.
Because the current crop of hybrids are ugly, tiny, slow little cars that are beneath the ‘standards’ these people have.
Now, they have an excuse for forcing the Manufacturer to buy the vehicle back, so they can go out and buy a Cadillac SUV.
Yabba Dabba Doo!
“Just as current cars have one battery wire connected to the metal frame, but you can’t even get the tiniest little shock touching the car, even though if you short out the battery you can melt through a screwdriver.”
Yes. DC vs. AC.
However, a wet tongue can get quite a thrill from a 9-volt battery.
Yes, but the 500,000v transmission line is stationary, while the 200v DC system, surrounded by steel (modified iron) is moving through a magnetic field!
That means it is cutting the lines of force, and it is thus generating a second, harmonic,field of its own, and if they are both at right angles to each other and to everything else, they are forced to dimension shift, but do not have enough power to do so completely...hence the horrid feelings
I'm surprised that nobody has ended up embedded in their car; or the car embedded in the road, like those poor souls aboard that destroyer. Did we learn NOTHING from The Philadelphia Experiment?!?
:-)
And another thing— someone correct me if I’m offtrack here but I have long understood that high breads run on yeast, not some fancy combination of fossil fuel and electric power.
Wow
Facts never stopped the "stuck-on-ignorant" contingent from babbling on about "battery replacement costs" and "toxic waste disposal fees" at end of life cycle...
Well... yeah!
I will get into my Prius, start it and call someone on my cell phone.
Who needs a microwave?
Glad you asked.
I don't need no stinkin' degree.
I are a liberal.
You need the matching outfit!
Define 'end of usesful life'.
Yes. It runs and it's sitting in my driveway.
It also averages around 25 mpg.
I have nothing pithy to add, other than...
BWAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAA! :)
“I don’t need no stinkin’ degree.
I are a liberal.”
“Comparing a 200-volt DC system with High-voltage AC transmission lines (500,000v) requires a very advanced degree in stupid...”
Well I hereby grant you an honorary “very advanced degree in stupid” (VADIS) in electrical engineering.
Congratulations.
SLIder ping.
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