OK, on this thread, I will use my ration of one-piggington-comment-per-month.
A true story:
An engineering school classmate of mine interned at a large power distribution company. Her internship involved safety issues of high-power lines, so she had top secret access to the locked vault of in-house studies this power company had conducted on health effects of high power lines on various farm animals and humans living under the lines
She said that data was the scariest thing she’s ever seen. These are the details I can recall she told from seeing the data first hand:
1) The dangerous lines are the Extra High Voltage and Ultra High Voltage: essentially anything 230kV and above. The data showed the health risk to life forms near the lines due to RF energy went up with the voltage. This link merely explains the different voltage levels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_powerline
2) She explained that developing fetuses in farm animals living under the 230kv and higher lines showed particularly bad health effects. Weird stuff: aborted fetuses, birth defects…etc. Also farmers saw weird effects on milk production, stuff like that.
She suggested that some data on humans living under the wires was very bad, but was kept secret, conspiracy stuff. She saw the data firsthand. She didn’t want to talk about the details of that data.
CONCLUSION: don’t buy a home under any high power lines, in particular stay blocks or miles away from 230kV and above lines.
