I remember issues with power line exposure coming up years ago particularly
relating to rates of childhood leukemia. There were a few good studies (out
of Sweden I believe) that looked at the issue but couldn't find a
significant link. Of course now we've all moved on to cell phones causing
brain tumors. Of course if true one gender and age group should be dropping
like flies.
Charlie
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes, the PacNW is crisscrossed with transmission lines. The property the
> > R/W crosses can be quite cheap. Reminds me of an enterprising fellow who
> > saw the "potential" in that fact. He proceeded to lay out a wire grid
> > under the high voltage lines to tap into a free source of power. Of
> > course he was quickly buried under a pile of lawyers.
>
>
> There is case law supporting both sides of this one. The problem is,
> he made it visible and also probably created a safety hazard.
>
> Reminds me...
>
> A friend of mine (long before Facebook) many years ago used to be the
> communications director for one of the nation's largest public
> utilities. Near the end of his career there accusations were being
> made in the public forum that high-voltage lines were causing
> sterilization of men. Well, this opened up an internal investigation
> and they found that the guys that worked in the generating plants as
> well as the linemen that maintained the high-voltage lines had half
> again as many children as the general populace.
>
> AG
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