You have single span, multi span, and multi span restrings. In a restring, if the superconducter gets scratched it is not so super, this can occur when the hangars have a difference in hight that is enough to cause a problem with either the capstans pull or the brake system causing a section of the string to run at the wrong velocity in turn letting it rise out of the carrying pully to a point it can toutch the top of the cage and get scratched. Due to liability I imagine this sometimes does not get noticed intentionaly as a multi-tower span costs. Therefor not all the cables on pylons are going to be equal, but problems will be mostly where this is a large variation in hight that presents a small possibility of casing damage to the multicore shield. There will be a small level of error in the efficiency of the cables and this is most probibly compensated for by the power companies. There are a whole lot of cables in a Country, some of which may not be opperating as they should due to unseen installation problems. That is a very difficult problem to check. Not all pylon cables are equal and some may be verging on faulty. Although we are meant to have either 50 or 60Hz that is not always accurate, can the transmition frequencies be varied whilst live for efficiency reasons? I am sure there is a lot more to electricity transmition that meets the eye. It would be interesting to know if there is any excessive height difference where the medical problems have been encountered. Of course I am probibly way wrong.
He'd wrap a few coils of wire around the dead, unconnected line that would later carry 30,000 volts, and he could get enough charge to melt his initials in the towers. He could never figure out how this worked, since there was no source of electricity
When climbing the pylons with the wire switched off I had to firstly winch up a 10-12ft insulating pole in order to earth each line being worked on to the pylon to avoid getting killed by static that can accumulate in the line, yep the unpowered hanging line can kill.
There is a slight problem with the situation I was talking about being made into a park : It covers multipule villages, estates, rivers and is a fantastic place with many historic and natural unique features. People have lived there for a long time, the pylon route encroaches upon multipule communities, mountian ranges and will most definately ruin what is an old and important area. There are also other problems, some of which are of more concern. As far as wildlife goes we already have much native wildlife. Therefore there should be a full public enquiry into the matter as problems that it can create and the eyesore will have a direct affect on peoples lives and livelyhoods who have a right to live and work in the areas affected.
I "may" be mistaken, and my comment may be stupid, but only because I do not want to see either the area I grew up in ruined and I care about folk unlike the "shove them up anywhere" attitude that has been shown by many people pushing forward these pylons. I guess I have a negativly biased experience since I have climbed a few pylons, whilst working for the company who last upgraded the A9 line. Being up top of one of these things in a blizzard walking on ice on steel is not very nice, and once you have worked in that area you get to hear a lot of things. You also tend to listen to the cases of cancer from years ago when nobody gave a hoot or would listen to anyone who argued against what I and many others see as a big problem. I will wait and see, when I am proven wrong I shall offer a full appologie.
Take two identical cables of equal length, roll them out accross your garden lawn to your garage, hook up a lightbulb inside the garage to one of them and power up. Do not anything to the other cable. One is transmitting power, the other is not. Leave for a few months. When mowing the lawn lift cable but replace exactly where it was originaly. When a few months have passed check the area damaged on the lawn by taking an average measurement of width of damage for the live and the unpowered cables. Will there be any difference? Will the lawn sustain more damage from the live cable or will both cables damage the lawn with equal efficiency?
"As fluorescent lights (without diffusers) have large exposed areas they may dazzle your eyes and affect your capacity to see clearly - so it is particularly important that they are fitted with adequate, preferably opaque, diffusers"
There is a lot more to this, as far as I can remember, not having a diffuser on a fluorescent light at work is actualy a breach of the Health and Safety laws in the UK.
I am surprised by the amount of folk slamming this subject.
It is more than obvious now that we there is a serious problem with some people having a suceptability to certian frequencies and that those frequencies may not be the same for everyone affected. The fact that the power companies do not agree is to be expected.
Can you get cancer from living underneath pylons? yep, can transformer noise stress out a tinitus sufferer? yes, do dreams involve electricity? yes, does electricity produce magnetic fields? yes, does the brain work using minute amounts of electricity? yes, can certain light frequencies hurt some people but not others? yes, can sound waves make you sick? yes. The list is endless. What many ignorant people do not realise is some of the folk involved in researching the effects of possible EMF problems belong to various EPA authorities who are the same people who bring you clean water to drink and other little things your life depends upon, all so you can scorn the unknown on/.
Some Asperger syndrome sufferers, synesthesia sufferers and many others are still not fully recognised as having legitimate problems with some frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum in some countries or by some health bodies at gorment level, so why is it so surprising the average person does not believe EMFs can interfear with the workings of the human senses.
The fact that experiments may not show true correlation for specific frequencies does not disprove the problems.
I think there is a tendancy for some people to imagine they have EMF problems but remember that EMFs is a massive subject covering many different things. Before you go thinking about what affects the electromagnetic spectrum can have on human flesh and human electrical activity in the brain at least find out about the existing established problems, anomilies, uses, unknowns and weapons that involve such technologies before slagging off people who say they suffer problems from them. A vast amount of money has been sunk into making some of these technologies safe to use and even more money has been spent researching weaponry that depend upon them.
If you are going to question the viability of experiments done using magnetic feilds on the brain remember to check if the minute variations in the natural magnetic fluctuations of the enviroment have been screened like when proper brain scan experiments are carried out since you might not have a sensitive enough experiment to draw a real conclusion from, and check to see if it is a health institute trying to prove a problem or a power company trying to disprove a problem.
Open your mind... oh, hang on a miniute, it's already open is it not?
Also, I advise all tinfoil wearers to purchase my new "acme stickon copper tinfoil mobile earth strip thingy" for ultimate peace of mind.
Seriously, Pylons can cause cancer and there is a mass of stuff we do not know about EMFs so don't be so quick to call people loonies, they may be trying to tell you something. Dreams are electric after all.
Don't even think of putting these 200ft pylons through Beauly or you guys will find out exactly what direct action is all about.
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You have single span, multi span, and multi span restrings. In a restring, if the superconducter gets scratched it is not so super, this can occur when the hangars have a difference in hight that is enough to cause a problem with either the capstans pull or the brake system causing a section of the string to run at the wrong velocity in turn letting it rise out of the carrying pully to a point it can toutch the top of the cage and get scratched. Due to liability I imagine this sometimes does not get noticed intentionaly as a multi-tower span costs. Therefor not all the cables on pylons are going to be equal, but problems will be mostly where this is a large variation in hight that presents a small possibility of casing damage to the multicore shield. There will be a small level of error in the efficiency of the cables and this is most probibly compensated for by the power companies. There are a whole lot of cables in a Country, some of which may not be opperating as they should due to unseen installation problems. That is a very difficult problem to check. Not all pylon cables are equal and some may be verging on faulty. Although we are meant to have either 50 or 60Hz that is not always accurate, can the transmition frequencies be varied whilst live for efficiency reasons? I am sure there is a lot more to electricity transmition that meets the eye. It would be interesting to know if there is any excessive height difference where the medical problems have been encountered. Of course I am probibly way wrong.
He'd wrap a few coils of wire around the dead, unconnected line that would later carry 30,000 volts, and he could get enough charge to melt his initials in the towers. He could never figure out how this worked, since there was no source of electricity
When climbing the pylons with the wire switched off I had to firstly winch up a 10-12ft insulating pole in order to earth each line being worked on to the pylon to avoid getting killed by static that can accumulate in the line, yep the unpowered hanging line can kill.
There is a slight problem with the situation I was talking about being made into a park : It covers multipule villages, estates, rivers and is a fantastic place with many historic and natural unique features. People have lived there for a long time, the pylon route encroaches upon multipule communities, mountian ranges and will most definately ruin what is an old and important area. There are also other problems, some of which are of more concern. As far as wildlife goes we already have much native wildlife. Therefore there should be a full public enquiry into the matter as problems that it can create and the eyesore will have a direct affect on peoples lives and livelyhoods who have a right to live and work in the areas affected.
I "may" be mistaken, and my comment may be stupid, but only because I do not want to see either the area I grew up in ruined and I care about folk unlike the "shove them up anywhere" attitude that has been shown by many people pushing forward these pylons. I guess I have a negativly biased experience since I have climbed a few pylons, whilst working for the company who last upgraded the A9 line. Being up top of one of these things in a blizzard walking on ice on steel is not very nice, and once you have worked in that area you get to hear a lot of things. You also tend to listen to the cases of cancer from years ago when nobody gave a hoot or would listen to anyone who argued against what I and many others see as a big problem. I will wait and see, when I am proven wrong I shall offer a full appologie.
Take two identical cables of equal length, roll them out accross your garden lawn to your garage, hook up a lightbulb inside the garage to one of them and power up. Do not anything to the other cable. One is transmitting power, the other is not. Leave for a few months. When mowing the lawn lift cable but replace exactly where it was originaly. When a few months have passed check the area damaged on the lawn by taking an average measurement of width of damage for the live and the unpowered cables. Will there be any difference? Will the lawn sustain more damage from the live cable or will both cables damage the lawn with equal efficiency?
P.S. if the live cable causes less damage...
there are *no* studies showing a correlation between living near pylons and cancer or other diseases
n dHealth.htm
http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk/PowerlinesA
http://www.revolt.co.uk/trentham/
I "personaly" believe in faries.
Fox News : Hahahahahaha!
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Oh, if Fox news says it then it must be right? eh!
Psuedo intelligence alert!
(Synesthesia) used to be and still is classed as a brain desease by some health authorities, some refuse to even entertain its existance. http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cyt
"Electrical Allergies" are a form of mental disorder.
: Or maybe just an undiagnosed legitimate medical problem...
If "Fox News" told you to go jump in the river would you do it?
"As fluorescent lights (without diffusers) have large exposed areas they may dazzle your eyes and affect your capacity to see clearly - so it is particularly important that they are fitted with adequate, preferably opaque, diffusers"
. htm do a word search in this doc for "diffusers"
http://www.lhc.org.uk/members/pubs/books/vdu/vd02
There is a lot more to this, as far as I can remember, not having a diffuser on a fluorescent light at work is actualy a breach of the Health and Safety laws in the UK.
I am surprised by the amount of folk slamming this subject.
It is more than obvious now that we there is a serious problem with some people having a suceptability to certian frequencies and that those frequencies may not be the same for everyone affected. The fact that the power companies do not agree is to be expected.
Can you get cancer from living underneath pylons? yep, can transformer noise stress out a tinitus sufferer? yes, do dreams involve electricity? yes, does electricity produce magnetic fields? yes, does the brain work using minute amounts of electricity? yes, can certain light frequencies hurt some people but not others? yes, can sound waves make you sick? yes. The list is endless. What many ignorant people do not realise is some of the folk involved in researching the effects of possible EMF problems belong to various EPA authorities who are the same people who bring you clean water to drink and other little things your life depends upon, all so you can scorn the unknown on
Some Asperger syndrome sufferers, synesthesia sufferers and many others are still not fully recognised as having legitimate problems with some frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum in some countries or by some health bodies at gorment level, so why is it so surprising the average person does not believe EMFs can interfear with the workings of the human senses.
The fact that experiments may not show true correlation for specific frequencies does not disprove the problems.
I think there is a tendancy for some people to imagine they have EMF problems but remember that EMFs is a massive subject covering many different things. Before you go thinking about what affects the electromagnetic spectrum can have on human flesh and human electrical activity in the brain at least find out about the existing established problems, anomilies, uses, unknowns and weapons that involve such technologies before slagging off people who say they suffer problems from them. A vast amount of money has been sunk into making some of these technologies safe to use and even more money has been spent researching weaponry that depend upon them.
If you are going to question the viability of experiments done using magnetic feilds on the brain remember to check if the minute variations in the natural magnetic fluctuations of the enviroment have been screened like when proper brain scan experiments are carried out since you might not have a sensitive enough experiment to draw a real conclusion from, and check to see if it is a health institute trying to prove a problem or a power company trying to disprove a problem.
Open your mind... oh, hang on a miniute, it's already open is it not?
Also, I advise all tinfoil wearers to purchase my new "acme stickon copper tinfoil mobile earth strip thingy" for ultimate peace of mind.
Seriously, Pylons can cause cancer and there is a mass of stuff we do not know about EMFs so don't be so quick to call people loonies, they may be trying to tell you something. Dreams are electric after all.
Don't even think of putting these 200ft pylons through Beauly or you guys will find out exactly what direct action is all about.
http://www.scottish-southern.co.uk/news/BeaulyDen