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I have worked in high voltage substations for over thirty years . I'm talking about voltages over 500 ,000 volts . I do NOT have cancer , I do NOT have liver or kidney disease and have fathered two healthy sons . Stop believing everything you read .
another way to tell the difference is telephone lines are within a jacketed cable; you'll see a black cable and its attached directly to the pole.
primary electrical lines are uninsulated; you'll see the bare metal and its not directly on the side of the pole. like someone mentioned earlier, look for the insulator.
i know all areas are different, but the majority of telephone lines are underground. maybe you see verizon servicing television cable lines?
Not a myth and maybe you should educate yourself before spreading lies.
Electromagnetic radiation is dangerous and depending on where you are in the electromagnetic field and the intensity determines the damage to the human body.
Now I am sure you know more than me, I am only an Electrical Engineer, and also a Voice Data Engineer of 36 years. Yes that is Sarcasm.
I grow tired of Internet know it alls spreading false information as if they had a clue about what they babble about.
The human body can be adversely effected and even in some ways positively effected by magnetic fields. In most all cases electromagnetic radiation from power lines can be dangerous. There have ben a number of studies designed to prove that this type of magnetic field is safe and instead the data showed otherwise and the studies were hidden in locked file cabinets in back rooms. Fact is farms where livestock is allowed to graze under a high tension power line of 100,000 volts or higher have been known to develop tumors and offspring that have mutations/birth defects at many times that of live stock not exposed to these situations.
Lucky you and I know of a number of coworkers including myself who has been riddled with tumors and skin cancer. There are exceptions to every rule the first fundamental rule of any study. In smoking lung cancer deaths we can all point to a number of people who never get cancer. I know my father was a two pack a day smoker and at age 80 never had a single problem. Yet I have 6 family members that died of lung cancer and two friends who smoked less that dad did. So what does this mean?
It proves that there are always exceptions to every rule. But no one with any hint of sanity would argue that lung cancer and smoking are unrelated.
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I have worked in high voltage substations for over thirty years . I'm talking about voltages over 500 ,000 volts . I do NOT have cancer , I do NOT have liver or kidney disease and have fathered two healthy sons . Stop believing everything you read .
Typically the lowest lines are cable television if there is cable in that area. Then the next set of lines above cable are telephone, then above the telephone are Power company secondary lines usually 220/240 volt lines. Above that are the Primary lines and the voltages range depending on the area from 12,000 to 17,000 volts and in some rural areas higher is a possibility.
So typically if all the utilities are pole mounted you will see 4 different attachment points on a standard utility pole. Now if one or more utilities are underground then the pole hardware change will reflect that missing utilities that are buried. Now in many areas the burials are only short bury, meaning they actually are carried to the area of the property then come down a pole either from a transformer or to a ground set transformer via burial. Those transformer are usually green metal boxes when on the ground.
I hope this helps a little....
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I'm about to buy my first home. I am trying to figure out if there are any high voltage power lines near the property. I haven't seen any in the immediate neighborhood, but then again I think I'm confused as to what they look like. I know what the huge high-voltage power lines look like, that are generally in less populated areas, where you can hear the buzzing coming from them, but are there smaller power lines that are in residential areas, and if so how do these differ from telephone lines? I am confused between the difference between a telephone line and a power line. How can I identify them?
When I lived in Florida, the nicer neighborhoods had their power lines buried. You might not immediately understand why but when you think about the hurricanes you get it.
I would want to live near power lines for the reasons mentioned and for this reason either. Here in Texas we had a storm, tree came down, took the power lines down. I like em buried...
Not a myth and maybe you should educate yourself before spreading lies.
My understanding of that post was to say living near the lower voltage residential won't cause adverse health problems.
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then above the telephone are Power company secondary lines usually 220/240 volt lines. Above that are the Primary lines and the voltages range depending on the area from 12,000 to 17,000 volts and in some rural areas higher is a possibility.
The primaries you see in a residential area are typically going to be 7.2kv.
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