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Ugly? Yes. Dangerous to your health other than you climbing up and grabbing them? Like caravan, I'd like to see some legitimate studies that show that there is a negative effect before making an absolutely statement that there is.
Seems to me that if there was a negative effect it would be observable everywhere that there are such lines, not just in an area here and there (which would be more of a post hoc ergo propter hoc kind of evidence).
Power lines ruin views. People resist buying, so it hurts resale value.
Those reasons alone, are good enough reasons not to live near them.
I personally wouldn't live within 1,000 ft or so of high-voltage
transmission lines because there is no need to do so. There are
plenty of places that are not near such lines, so why risk it?
I haven't seen a study proving that they cause harm, but just because
it hasn't been proven yet, doesn't mean that they don't cause harm.
We all have iron in our bodies and every time the current switches
direction ( 60x/second ), it physically pulls on the iron in our bodies
in a different direction. Is that harmful? Maybe, maybe not.
There's a high-tension line that runs through my aunt's development in Voorhees, NJ and nothing has ever happened to them, they're there 22 years. Someone told me you have to be directly under them for it to have a bad effect.
Don't know for sure. it's the usual type of controversy where once side will make claims yet the industry side will wind up saying that nothing was ever directly linked to health problems or cancer. I have heard that countries in Europe have stricter limits on levels that might be acceptable for living.
BTW isn't that why people don't use elctric blankets anymore, especially pregnant women should never use them since you are wrapped in an electric field while you toast yourself away?
Hmmm. Never heard that people don't use electric blankets any more. See them for sale all the time - and that's down here where it hardly gets very cold at all in the winter!
Having powerlines over your home is ugly causing the home value to decrease. There are a lot of people that will pass on such a home out of fear that that there are health risks. Perception is reality in their minds (hence resale values suffer).
So independent of anything else, I'd take a lesser home versus a nicer home with powerlines overhead. Saying that, I doubt that powerlines bother most people. A 16 year old in our town has terminal brain cancer. Their family lives in a beautiful home under a powerline. 3 other family members in their home are just fine. But I bet the family has googled the topic more than once.
While I personally doubt there is really any risk, I would never buy a home under a powerline. That being said, the fields from cell phones are several orders of magnitude more intense than powerline fields.
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