Anybody live near powerlines like this??
11-27-2012, 07:11 PM
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Anybody live near powerlines like this?? A friend is looking at a house that has a greenbelt with powerline towers running down behind it through the neighborhood. Looking online he just worried about several accounts of child luekimia and cancer etc.. from living near stuff like this. Theres no transformers or big boxes anywhere. Electricity lines, cable maybe. i told him there shouldnt be a problem. Any input guys?
11-27-2012, 07:25 PM
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I live near them. You can hear them in the rain and snow.
Most people here are in their late 50s. The houses were build in 1977. The guy who I bought the house from had a sick wife she passed a while ago. He moved in with the widowed lady down the way. Do not know what happened to her husband. The lady who lives across the street her husband died about 2 years ago. The other lady who lives closest to them her husband died long ago. I don't know what happened to any of them. I have lived here 7 years. We all feel ok so far.
Most people here are in their late 50s. The houses were build in 1977. The guy who I bought the house from had a sick wife she passed a while ago. He moved in with the widowed lady down the way. Do not know what happened to her husband. The lady who lives across the street her husband died about 2 years ago. The other lady who lives closest to them her husband died long ago. I don't know what happened to any of them. I have lived here 7 years. We all feel ok so far.
11-27-2012, 07:34 PM
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Yeah, a guy on another forum had two huge towers put up near his house. And a few elderly around there kicked the bucket within ten yrs of them bieng built. :/
11-27-2012, 08:03 PM
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I used to live right by one when I was younger, backyard ran right up to the edge of the towers, and I'm still alive and kicking, lived there about 12yrs, and I turned out normal..well for the most part...as well as my sister...
11-27-2012, 09:22 PM
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There was a study a few years ago when I was in high school. We had power lines running bye the school like this. A science teacher took two florescent light bulbs and held them under the power lines and they lit up. I am not sure what it proves, but they fact they lit up means something. I am sure higher amounts of radiation or something of that nature.
11-27-2012, 09:25 PM
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There was a study a few years ago when I was in high school. We had power lines running bye the school like this. A science teacher took two florescent light bulbs and held them under the power lines and they lit up. I am not sure what it proves, but they fact they lit up means something. I am sure higher amounts of radiation or something of that nature.
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11-27-2012, 10:55 PM
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No experiment or study has ever shown anything statistically significant between power lines and cancer.
http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=1425
Current always creates an electromagnetic field. More current means more electromagnetic field. The reason the lightbulb lit up is the same reason you don't just coil wire when you run speaker or a power wire in your stereo system. The noise you hear in your stereo comes from the same force powering the lightbulb.
http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03...bulbs-to-glow/
http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=1425
There was a study a few years ago when I was in high school. We had power lines running bye the school like this. A science teacher took two florescent light bulbs and held them under the power lines and they lit up. I am not sure what it proves, but they fact they lit up means something. I am sure higher amounts of radiation or something of that nature.
http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03...bulbs-to-glow/
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11-28-2012, 12:24 AM
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A friend is looking at a house that has a greenbelt with powerline towers running down behind it through the neighborhood. Looking online he just worried about several accounts of child luekimia and cancer etc.. from living near stuff like this. Theres no transformers or big boxes anywhere. Electricity lines, cable maybe. i told him there shouldnt be a problem. Any input guys?
There was a study a few years ago when I was in high school. We had power lines running bye the school like this. A science teacher took two florescent light bulbs and held them under the power lines and they lit up. I am not sure what it proves, but they fact they lit up means something. I am sure higher amounts of radiation or something of that nature.
No experiment or study has ever shown anything statistically significant between power lines and cancer.
http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=1425
Current always creates an electromagnetic field. More current means more electromagnetic field. The reason the lightbulb lit up is the same reason you don't just coil wire when you run speaker or a power wire in your stereo system. The noise you hear in your stereo comes from the same force powering the lightbulb.
http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03...bulbs-to-glow/
http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=1425
Current always creates an electromagnetic field. More current means more electromagnetic field. The reason the lightbulb lit up is the same reason you don't just coil wire when you run speaker or a power wire in your stereo system. The noise you hear in your stereo comes from the same force powering the lightbulb.
http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03...bulbs-to-glow/
11-28-2012, 09:10 AM
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houses near power lines tend to be cheaper for reasons already stated in this thread. people with lower income can afford these and are the ones who move in. people with said lower income generally opt not to buy healthy food, or just can't afford it. people on shitty diets die sooner. that's my summary of a meta-study i read a while back. it's okay to live there, just stay away from poor people food (glucose, fructose, lactose, etc.)
11-28-2012, 10:31 AM
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Well just looking at the pictures ... Those 2 story houses don't look cheap at all. I know my parents neighborhood has those behind them and when I lived there growing up I could never hear them or even noticed them really. And i'm normal .. I think.
11-28-2012, 11:28 AM
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ROSS hit it on the head.^^^^ and this is why people against the power lines play the health card.......to get more people on there side.
we have lived by them now for 12 plus years with nothing bad to report,except the obviouse....but so far living on the 40 acres the power lines run through, out weighs the bad in my book.
11-28-2012, 01:15 PM
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Yeah, not cheap but not outrageous either. $130,000 22xxsf 3br 2 1/2. He went ahead and put a bid on it. Thanks alot for the replies fellas. Very helpful.