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Convenience may be causing people to get sick

Sorry, but based on your comments, links and misconceptions, you're not an authority on basic physics....in fact, your comments are rather embarrassing to you.

I never said I was an authority.

But it's pretty clear that you have NO IDEA how a net current condition causes magnetic fields.

Cheers,
 
You only implied it.

Funny, it's clear that you really have no idea whatsoever....put your tin foil hat back on.

You don't seem to understand the relationship between electricity and magnetism....and it's embarrassing you, painfully.

Going back a couple of posts:

For example, a neutral wire that touches a ground wire in an old receptacle can create a huge magnetic field around it, and leak current into the ground wire.

Here I was talking about the net current. This is very well documented and factually occurring condition, that creates an EMF field around the source (Ie; mis wired receptacle).

Your reply was:

How? Neutral and ground are at the same potential, connecting them together, with NO potential difference between them results in no current flow, no current flow results in no external magnetic field....seems a lot of you skipped high school physics.

Which to I sent you some links that would describe this condition in more detail and how it is caused.

Could you be any more ambiguous in your further posts?
 
Jarrek, don't get sucked into an I-Z1 fight. His rhetorical skill is generally demonstrated by talking in hyperbole and resorting to elementary school name-calling.
 
As I said earlier, which seems to have flown over your head, any time current flows, a magnetic field is produced. Your point is moot.

So if you are aware of this fact, then I'm sure you're aware of the fact that in standard household wiring, the hot and neutral conductors are run always in pairs. When an equal amount of current flows through both of these conductors, the EMF field is neutralized and will create almost no EMF readings at a distance of 3 inches.

If some of this current escapes to the ground wire because of a mis wire (net current, neutral ground, whatever you want to call it) an elevated EMF field will now extend several feet away.

Agreed?
 
i read this article today. thought i might mention it here....



Cell Phone Use Linked To Increased Cancer Risk

A recent study says frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors of the parotid gland than those who don't use cell phones.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
February 15, 2008 09:30 AM

Frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors of the parotid gland than those who don't use cell phones, according to a recently published study.

The parotid gland is the largest human salivary gland; it's located near the jaw and ear, where cell phones are typically held.

The reported annual incidence of salivary gland tumors is one to three per 100,000 people, according a 2006 article by Mark Kidd in Ear, Nose and Throat Journal. Based on that data, a 50% increase would raise one's theoretical high-end risk of developing a tumor in the head from 0.003% per year to 0.0045% per year.

To put the possible danger into perspective, consider that the annual incidence of death by car crash in the United States is about 14 per 100,000 people, according to Department of Transportation statistics.

The study, led by Tel Aviv University epidemiologist Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, appeared last December in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Sadetzki's findings are sure to add to confusion surrounding the already contentious debate about the health effects of cell phone radiation. Many other studies in recent years have found no increased risk of cancer due to mobile phone use, but a few have stopped short of ruling the possibility out and a few have said increased risk of cancer is small but real.

The U.K. Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme last year "found no association between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer," and noted that "the situation for longer term exposure is less clear."

Professor Kjell Mild of Sweden's Orebro University, however, also published a study last year and found that using a cell phone over a period of more than 10 years raises the risk of brain cancer and that children are particularly susceptible to this risk because of their developing skulls.

In 2006, the American Journal of Epidemiology published a Swedish salivary gland study, "Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Parotid Gland Tumor," and the authors found no increased risk of tumors caused by cell phone use.

One area where the two parotid gland studies differ is in the number of participants. The 2006 Swedish study included 172 people with benign and malignant tumors, and 681 health control subjects. Sadetzki's study included nearly 500 people with benign or malignant tumors and about 1,300 healthy control subjects.

Sadetzki says that the Israelis were early cell phone adopters and heavy users of the technology, a tendency that suggests higher radio frequency exposure than other populations. Her study found an increased risk of cancer for frequent cell phone users in rural areas, which may be attributable to the increased radiation output required when phones try to communicate in areas with fewer antennas. She believes that frequent mobile phone users and children face the largest increased risk of health effects.

"While I think this technology is here to stay, I believe precautions should be taken in order to diminish the exposure and lower the risk for health hazards," Sadetzki said in a statement. She recommends the use of hands-free devices at all times, holding the phone away from one's body, and making shorter, less frequent calls. She also advises that parents limit the amount of time children can talk on mobile phones.

And if you really want to protect your health, buckle up and drive with care.
 
Reading the title I was thinking lax activity/no natural exercise from convenience was the topic, but to hear about EMF's is more interesting by far.

Never really heard much about it, but thanks for the food for thought. Makes one wonder where that unexplained headache really comes from. ;)
 

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