I'm talking about living under one. I almost bought a very nice townhouse but it had 600v lines running over it. You could hear them hum and they would make a small fluorescent tube glow just from the field effect. Regular power lines don't do that.
Yes, very close to the high-voltage lines is a definite concern. I know someone that used to work along the right-of-ways for high voltage lines and he said it could make your teeth hurt sometimes! If you are close enough to lower voltage power lines, you can get high EM levels. How high the levels need to be for adverse health effects is not known to me, but since the street level lines are close enough to potentially adversely affect people, and there doesn't seem to be a known and obvious and widespread effect, I believe it is probably an insignificant concern.
At the time when I was looking at said townhouse, my company shared space with a team of RF engineers (tower builders). I asked them about the safety of it and they gave me all sorts of technical reasons why it was safe, blah, blah. At the end of their justifications, I asked them "would you buy the townhouse?". All resoundingly said NO.
There is a big difference in the cell tower radiation, and the electromagnetic radiation associated with high-voltage lines.
From ChatGPt:
High-voltage power lines: The radiation from high-voltage power lines is primarily extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic radiation. The frequency of this radiation typically ranges from 30 Hz to 300 Hz, which is well below the range of visible light. This type of radiation is non-ionizing, meaning it does not have enough energy to remove electrons from atoms or molecules, and is considered low-energy radiation.
5G cellphone towers: 5G towers emit radiofrequency (RF) radiation, which is part of the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The frequency of 5G signals can range from around 1 GHz (gigahertz) to 100 GHz, which is much higher than the ELF radiation emitted by power lines. Although still non-ionizing, RF radiation is of higher energy compared to ELF radiation from power lines.
I'm talking about living under one. I almost bought a very nice townhouse but it had 600v lines running over it. You could hear them hum and they would make a small fluorescent tube glow just from the field effect. Regular power lines don't do that.
Yes, very close to the high-voltage lines is a definite concern. I know someone that used to work along the right-of-ways for high voltage lines and he said it could make your teeth hurt sometimes! If you are close enough to lower voltage power lines, you can get high EM levels. How high the levels need to be for adverse health effects is not known to me, but since the street level lines are close enough to potentially adversely affect people, and there doesn't seem to be a known and obvious and widespread effect, I believe it is probably an insignificant concern.
At the time when I was looking at said townhouse, my company shared space with a team of RF engineers (tower builders). I asked them about the safety of it and they gave me all sorts of technical reasons why it was safe, blah, blah. At the end of their justifications, I asked them "would you buy the townhouse?". All resoundingly said NO.
There is a big difference in the cell tower radiation, and the electromagnetic radiation associated with high-voltage lines.
From ChatGPt:
High-voltage power lines: The radiation from high-voltage power lines is primarily extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic radiation. The frequency of this radiation typically ranges from 30 Hz to 300 Hz, which is well below the range of visible light. This type of radiation is non-ionizing, meaning it does not have enough energy to remove electrons from atoms or molecules, and is considered low-energy radiation.
5G cellphone towers: 5G towers emit radiofrequency (RF) radiation, which is part of the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The frequency of 5G signals can range from around 1 GHz (gigahertz) to 100 GHz, which is much higher than the ELF radiation emitted by power lines. Although still non-ionizing, RF radiation is of higher energy compared to ELF radiation from power lines.