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Dirty Electricity 101 The electricity in your house is supposed to flow at a certain speed, either 60 or 50 times per second depending on where you are in the world. But because of our fancy gadgets like dimmer switches and CFLs, the flow of electricity gets messed up. This creates something called "Dirty Electricity." It emits EMFs at intermediate frequencies ranging from 300 Hz to 10 MHz, which are harmful to all living beings. Dirty electricity enters our homes via the main power supply but can also be created by use of electronics, especially the ones that rely on SMPS. The electrical grid outside has already been contaminated by various sources of high frequency signals. These signals are like factories that dump their toxic waste and pollute the river from which you get your drinking water. Dirty electricity shows up as “fuzzy” or jagged distortions on special testing equipment like oscilloscopes. Instead of seeing a clean, flowing wave of power, experts see a bumpy, noisy line.. proof that the electricity is full of interference. image
bitbuybyte's avatar bitbuybyte
Can you explain a little more what dirty electricity is?
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I worked as a broadcast engineer for decades. Plenty of perfectly healthy people and critters live and work (I did) near broadcast towers, which radiate hundreds of thousands of times more energy than the microscopic MF and HF signals riding along your power lines.
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↩ replying to Kevin Alfred Strom
Kevin, it’s not about the energy. It’s about the way a signal changes over time (modulation) The way the field is oriented in space (polarization) The way power is concentrated in short bursts (PAPR) The way energy is spread across frequencies (bandwidth) The way noise raises the floor, lowering SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) The way beams are shaped in space (beamforming / spatial structure) The way signals mix inside nonlinear tissues, creating new intermodulation frequencies The WAVEFORM structure.
↩ replying to Asanoha
No one's is perfect, I imagine, but mine is very good. I manage to work longer hours than many half my age, take substantial forest hikes with my much-younger wife and three young children and have no trouble keeping up. One station where I worked, WEAM 1390 in Arlington, Virginia, was surrounded by suburban homes directly abutting the antenna field. Many, many stations are like that. Nobody seemed to experience any negative effects. And the plant life in the antenna field, with its roots in direct contact with the RF current-carrying radial ground wires, was always thriving. Standing in the field holding a 4-foot fluorescent light connected to nothing, there was enough RF energy in the air to light the bulb.
↩ replying to Rusty
What kind of modulation is good, and what kind is bad? (When the radio DJ plays Vivaldi, is it worse for you than when he plays Wagner?) What polarization is good, and what is bad? What frequencies are good or bad for you? What signal-to-noise ratio is good and which is bad? Saying that these things cause health problems in themselves is rash and very unlikely to be true. After all, lightning contains every frequency from DC to daylight, and, unless it hits very, very close to you (enough to cause heating), it has zero effect on human health. And the fields that lightning produces, even at a mile away, are vastly greater than anything riding in on your power line.
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↩ replying to Kevin Alfred Strom
Well that’s good! Hmm that’s crazy about the bulb! From the research I’ve done there are definitely people who are more or less sensitive to EMF/RF than others. I wonder if it’s like just 10-20% of the population that is severely affected and that’s why most people don’t have an issue with any of it. And the small issues most people have are chalked off to other stuff. I believe you saw what you saw, but there is no way holding a phone against your head is good. There are studies of tumors in phone dominant sides of head and women’s breasts where they keep phone tucked in bra while jogging, also noticeable increase in cancers and neurological issues in area with big towers put up. I imagine the issue is ultimately like lead in paint or asbestos in building materials. It didn’t kill off humanity but eventually symptoms caused got worse and worse over the years. I mean doctors use to smoke in their offices 😁 Anyways I hope it’s all a big nothing burger because most of us are bathing in this shit!
↩ replying to Asanoha
I agree with you that holding a transmitting antenna against your head for long periods is a bad idea, if the transmit wavelength is comparable to body size or organ size -- generally from 100 MHz up. (That can cause unnatural heating and possibly damage tissues.) That's because of the inverse square law, which tells us that field strengths go up 6 decibels every time you halve the distance from the antenna. If your phone is 24 inches from you while using speakerphone, do the math compared to holding it a twentieth of an inch away when not on speakerphone -- it comes out to be a 54 dB increase. That means holding a 3-Watt phone next to your head is the equivalent of a 753,000-Watt phone two feet away! Huge difference.