Electricity pylons. Unsafe?
26 January 2007, 04:22 PM
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I wouldn't even consider living near these things. Very dodgy!
I went to the Salzburgring racetrack years ago and there are pylons going across the track. The spectator areas underneath were roped off to stop anyone sitting under them!
I went to the Salzburgring racetrack years ago and there are pylons going across the track. The spectator areas underneath were roped off to stop anyone sitting under them!
26 January 2007, 04:37 PM
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27 January 2007, 01:04 PM
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Been living within 1/4 mile of the biggies for 33 years and not grown a third arm yet. 
In good health too, no asthma, eczema, allergies or anything else that I can think of wrong with me.
I think these are 55k volts but not looked at the plaque on the pylon lately to be able to remember.
Andy
In good health too, no asthma, eczema, allergies or anything else that I can think of wrong with me.
I think these are 55k volts but not looked at the plaque on the pylon lately to be able to remember.
Andy
27 January 2007, 01:10 PM
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Bit of science. Electromagnetic radiation like any other rediation follows the inverse square law, this simply means that as the distance increases the effect falls by the square of the distance.
So assuming your worries are related to the voltage and that these pylons are 400kV, the highest voltage used in UK, then just compare that with something you know and accept, the 240V cables running through your house.
At 100m from the pylon then that's equivalent to being 2.4m from a 240V cable. If you're sat at a PC worrying about this pylon then you're likely to be more like 0.5m from the 240V cable feeding it or the monitor. Do you worry about this? Course not. So should you worry about electromagnetic fields from a pylon that's 100m away. Equally not.
As to the repliers, don't all you scaremongers find it a touch hypocritical to sit at a PC powered by electricity and then criticise the methods used to bring that power to your houses? If you all sat in the dark and sent smoke signals to one another moaning on about your paranoid delusions and government conspiracy theories then I think I'd take you bit more seriously.
Bit like all the chavvy council house whingers around here who go to protest meetings about phone masts with their mobile phones in their pockets. (Incidentally the inverse square law kicks in here again, loads more power potentially frying your brain from a phone touching your ear than from a mast 100m away).
After all that, would I live under a pylon myself? Nope. They're ugly and buzz a lot in the wet weather. But that's a different issue. Don't have nightmares!
So assuming your worries are related to the voltage and that these pylons are 400kV, the highest voltage used in UK, then just compare that with something you know and accept, the 240V cables running through your house.
At 100m from the pylon then that's equivalent to being 2.4m from a 240V cable. If you're sat at a PC worrying about this pylon then you're likely to be more like 0.5m from the 240V cable feeding it or the monitor. Do you worry about this? Course not. So should you worry about electromagnetic fields from a pylon that's 100m away. Equally not.
As to the repliers, don't all you scaremongers find it a touch hypocritical to sit at a PC powered by electricity and then criticise the methods used to bring that power to your houses? If you all sat in the dark and sent smoke signals to one another moaning on about your paranoid delusions and government conspiracy theories then I think I'd take you bit more seriously.
Bit like all the chavvy council house whingers around here who go to protest meetings about phone masts with their mobile phones in their pockets. (Incidentally the inverse square law kicks in here again, loads more power potentially frying your brain from a phone touching your ear than from a mast 100m away).
After all that, would I live under a pylon myself? Nope. They're ugly and buzz a lot in the wet weather. But that's a different issue. Don't have nightmares!
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