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Does My Bike Induce Electricity?

Posted by Cliff on from the hidden-dangers-of-electrical-fields dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I have a steel frame road bicycle and recently began riding on a path that parallels high-tension power lines for several miles. My question is: Does my bike induce an electric current by passing through the electric fields from the power lines? I normally ride the section at about 18 miles per hour, estimate the distance to the lines at about 75-100 feet, and think they're 200KV lines."

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  1. Wake up America! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wake up american US citizens. Uur "democracy" is fault, "we're a free country after all" a propaganda campaign.

    The iraqi government started selling in euros last year, coincidence? Our government bombs innocent people in iraq for the sake of cheaper oil. (Puts *at will* another government at its place and they think THAT's democracy?)

    Therefore, our current governemts nothing more that puppets of corporations.

    Our big tv channels nothing but Public Relations propaganda.

    Our precious countryside farmers nothing but put aside by synthetic food sellers.

    Wake up america

    It's really, up to us.

    No, it's really, up to us.

    1. Re:Wake up America! by dankjones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      >>>The iraqi government started selling in euros last year, coincidence?

      In order to have a Coincidence, I think tou need two incidents that coincide.

      So I would say no, that is not a coincidence.