[GBlist] Re:underground lines vs. overhead

[Rob Tom <ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>]

on: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 "Martin&Caruso" <itchpeople@islc.net> 
wrote:
[snip]
>I also remember reading something about a dairy farmer whose 
>cattle were having problems that seemed unexplainable until they 
>were removed from the area of the power pole.  Did anyone else 
>ever hear this?

Elizabeth;

A little-known fact is that the horns of dairy cattle just happen to be 
ideally configured to act as antennae to receive AM radio frequencies,  
and more specifically, country music stations. A visit to any dairy barn 
will confirm this fact. (Bulls' horns are configured to receive hard rock 
stations.)

And if you've ever driven past high tension wires with your car radio 
on (tuned to a country music station or otherwise) you will have 
experienced the same problems that the cattle in the area of the 
power pole were experiencing.

That being said, there was a theory (by a Swedish researcher I 
believe, and I'm not making this up)  put forth some years ago that it 
was not the EMF in the vicinity of high tension wires that was causing 
cancer, but rather, that the EMF caused higher concentrations of 
ground-sourced radiation (radon daughter isotopes ?)  in the vicinity 
of the wires, and that it was the radioactivity, not the EMF which was 
causing the cancer. 

As to the choice between underground or overhead lines, two words:
The Great Ice Storm of 1999 (or was it 1998 ?)

Here in Kanata, where most of the hydro lines are underground, my 
home (in the rural sector where the lines are overhead) experienced a 
power outage lasting a total of about 18 minutes. 

Just a bit southeast of here, in the area around Alfred Ontario, where 
all of the lines are overhead (that is until the ice brought them down), 
they were without power for up to two months. 

 ~~~*~~~
 Rob Tom
 Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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