High voltage overhead wires

[iloveskydiving]

Is there any facts or evidence out there that proves that living in a close radius of high voltage overhead lines is bad for your health.......???

Thx Dave:

 

[steelersman]

Is there any facts or evidence out there that proves that living in a close radius of high voltage overhead lines is bad for your health.......???

Thx Dave:

No. Not unless one of the lines snaps and falls on you or the ground and shocks you. But there are plenty of people that believe it to be true.

 

[charlie]

Not that has imperial evidence. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence. :smile:

 

[zog]

Is there any facts or evidence out there that proves that living in a close radius of high voltage overhead lines is bad for your health.......???

Thx Dave:

That is a great question with many answers.

Most of the concern about power lines and cancer stems from studies of people living near power lines and people working in "electrical" occupations Some of these studies appear to show a weak association between exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields and the incidence of cancer.

However, epidemiological studies done in recent years show little evidence that power lines are associated with an increase in cancer , laboratory studies have shown little evidence of a link between power-frequency fields and cancer , and a connection between power line fields and cancer remains biophysically implausible.

A 1996 review by a prominent group of scientists at the U.S. National Academy of Science concluded that:

"No conclusive and consistent evidence shows that exposures to residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental effects.".

A 1999 review by the U.S. National Institutes of Health concluded that:

"The scientific evidence suggesting that [power-frequency electromagnetic field] exposures pose any health risk is weak.".

A 2001 review by the U.K. National Radiation Protection Board (NRPB) concluded that:

"Laboratory experiments have provided no good evidence that extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields are capable of producing cancer, nor do human epidemiological studies suggest that they cause cancer in general."

A review of the epidemiological literature by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection concludes that:

"In the absence of evidence from cellular or animal studies, and given the methodological uncertainties and in may cases inconsistencies of the existing epidemiologic literature, there is no chronic disease for which an etiological [causal] relation to [power-frequency fields] can be regarded as established".

The largest studies of childhood leukemia and power lines ever done reported in 1997-2000 that they could find no significant evidence for an association of power lines with childhood leukemia . In contrast, a pair of studies published in 2000 reported that if all the studies in which magnetic fields could be measured or estimated were pooled, a statistically significant association could be found for childhood leukemia in the children with the highest average fields.

Some studies have reported that children living near certain types of power lines (high-current distribution lines and high-voltage transmission lines) have higher than average rates of leukemia ,brain cancers , and/or overall cancer. The correlations are not strong, and the studies have generally not shown dose-response relationships.

I have massive amounts of data on this subject, PM me if you want to get a pile of info.

 

[infinity]

I only wonder what will happen to the millions of people living near these power lines if a correlation between disease and living within close proximity to them is proven? Will the government begin a massive property buyout program? Will homes require some sort of shielding? The implications are staggering given the scope of people living near these things.

 

[480sparky]

Here's an interesting story on the subject.