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EM Hazard rears head

dogjones

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Oh no, not again.

In Canada, Dr. Havas has been investigating whether the deterioration in power quality has led to sensitivity. To this end, she's been installing filters that clean up the interference on electrical wires to see if people notice.

In 2003, she installed filters in a Toronto private school where a student was electrically sensitive for a six-week test, three weeks with the devices and three weeks without them. Half of the teachers who responded to her questionnaire said they felt health improvements, such as being able to concentrate better and feeling less tired, when the filters were in place. Even more unusual, the teachers, who were not told what the research was about, reported that 60 per cent of their classes showed improvements in student behaviour when the filters were installed.

Based on this finding, Dr. Havas estimates that perhaps half of the population may have some sensitivity to electricity.
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No wonder I get jittery when I play computer games.
 
Based on this finding, Dr. Havas estimates that perhaps half of the population may have some sensitivity to electricity.
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May I suggest an experiment to estimate Dr Havas' sensitivity to electricity, involving a brass rod, a hill, and a stormy night?
 
Hi Jeff!

You mean you aren't retired yet? I supose living out in the Hamptons, you have to keep working, eh? :)
 
You wouldn't catch me dead, let alone living, in The Hamptons.
Well, the Lionel Hamptons, maybe.
 
I just read your reply to ecman who said, "...oh, then he must be queer then.: :)

[To other posters: Jeff and I go back quite a number of years on another messageboard, and this one as well. Some of you may not know this but I had another username then and I have been posting here for quite a few years. Then I went on a hiatus for a while and when I went to reregister, they told me my name was already in use, so I chose another name...the one I now have.]
 
Huh? "deterioration in power quality" "filters that clean up interference on electrical wires" Woo woo big time...as any EE will tell you.

We had a lady in town who claimed severe sensitivity to "electrical fields". To the extent she sued her landlord because the service entrance voltage to her house was 220 volts and not the 110 she could tolerate. She also had a "hands free" telephone because she claimed holding a telephone handset to her head made her sick, and when she neded photocopies made she'd sit in her car outside the Town Offices and lean on her horn until someone came out to take her paperwork inside and copy it...she couldn't go near a copying machine because of the EM fields you see. Of course somehow that 10,000 volt ignition system in her car seemed to have no effect on her.
 
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