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What KV power line is this? And living near them in general
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Power lines don't cause health issues. If they did we would be seeing massive results of it because electric power lines crisscross our daily lives all over this planet.
Anyway, magnetic fields drop off according to the inverse square law, so even just 20m away the field strength would be just a smidgen of what it is right next to the conductors. I wouldn't worry about it, honestly.
Anyway, magnetic fields drop off according to the inverse square law, so even just 20m away the field strength would be just a smidgen of what it is right next to the conductors. I wouldn't worry about it, honestly.
Thanks- I assumed so, but of course on the internet half of the people say it's a death sentence. The property didn't work out for me for other reasons but it's good to know in the future. Thank you
Of course it does!
The internet is just the worst, heh.Fun fun anecdote: I grew up next to a high voltage powerline from age 11 to 21; the conductors ran right behind the back yard of my parents' house and fed the whole town of 6000+ people with electricity. On my street, and the street on the other side of the powerline, probably at least 8 people got cancer/died over the course of ~30-35 years. Probably more; my parents remember more exactly who and how many it was.
I doubt it actually had anything to do with the powerline though; that's the problem with low sample sizes of just a few dozen houses; when there's a statistical anomaly you can easily draw incorrect conclusions if all the actual evidence you have is that there was a nearby high voltage powerline. As you have probably heard elsewhere, correlation is not evidence of causation...