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Article #24House EMF (was: Effect of power lines on home resale value)
From: Jonathan Edwards
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:13
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:13
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What with the current state of hysteria about environmental health risks, I would not buy a house next to high voltage lines. Whether there really is a risk or not, there is enough public awareness of the issue to possibly affect resale values. But you say you are 1000' feet, which sounds like a pretty good distance. On a related topic: I remember reading about studies on the EMF exposure we get from normal electrical appliances and the power wiring. It was stated that most of this could be eliminated by using a different wiring scheme in the house. The basic idea was to eliminate ground-return paths, so that all the power wiring in the house would always have parallel opposing currents, canceling out their fields. Can anyone with more knowledge comment on this, and whether it would even meet code?
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Newsgroups: nj.general,misc.consumers.house Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!edwards From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards) Subject: House EMF (was: Effect of power lines on home resale value) Message-ID: <BsGsz3.396@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <1992Aug03.135115.18283@watson.ibm.com> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 15:13:51 GMT Lines: 14