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Posted by bob on March 9, 2007, 7:58 am
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>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I'm calling out to you for your personal experiences/observations/
>> feedback about driving a hybrid car, and exposing yourselves to
>> Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) within the cabin of the car.
>>
>> Has anyone taken a reading and gotten a Gauss or Tesla measurement?
>>
>> My prime concern is that Toyota and Honda consider the EMR reading
>> classified information. As hard as I have tried, they would not
>> divulge this information, as such, I gave up my quest for a hybrid,
>> and bought a standard ICE car.
>>
>> EMR is not something to take lightly. We've all experienced first hand
>> when we watch TV too closely for too long, or worked behind a CRT
>> computer monitor for too long. The long term health effects are not
>> known, but the symptoms are real. These range from standard fatigue to
>> extreme mood swings to cancer.
>>
>> Based on symptoms alone, a two hour continuous drive in a Prius is
>> equivalent to working behind a CRT computer monitor for 24hrs
>> straight. For the Honda Civic it is 4 hours because the main power
>> line runs under the passenger seat rather than the driver's seat in
>> the Prius.
>>
>> It is very unfortunate that hybrids are being pushed hard into the
>> market when little is known about EMR. Only recently science are
>> finding Cell Phones are causing an increase in brain cancer, and
>> science is still on the fence about homes built near power lines,
>> which really unfortunately does not help those victims of leukemia.
>> Mood swings is the most visible symptom of EMR exposure. And having
>> EMR exposure while drive would only help drive up the incidences of
>> road rage.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> Concerned and green citizen of this earth.
>>
>
> This has been kicked around a few times. The fields are pretty much the
> same as any other car, mostly because the wiring and motors don't leak
> much flux. The ones you'd worry about are the long DC wires from the
> battery to the inverter up front, because they pass under the passenger
> compartment, and the AC leads under the hood. The DC wires are unimportant
> because there is no energy radiated from DC wires - no change, no energy.
> The AC wires are short and bundled together so there is minimal flux from
> those, either.
>
> An important indicator is that the AM radio works just fine. It is the
> real "canary in the coal mine" for EMs not associated with actual
> transmitters.
>
> Finally, the concern about EM fields has pretty much been laid to rest. In
> the '80s there was a lot of concern when a large study of workers in the
> electric industry showed nearly twice the normal risk for two brain
> cancers - gliomas and astrocytomas. This led directly to EM radiation
> standards, especially for consumer products. However, twenty years of
> intense study has shown no link between EM fields and anything but known
> heating effects. Most significantly, RF in the UHF range and above can
> heat the eyeballs and cause cataracts to develop. But cancer - definitely
> not. Only ionizing radiation is associated with that.
the biggest study ever on cell phone/brain cancer was recently released from
sweden or norway (late last yr) - showed no difference in cancer rates
between cell phone addicts and those with no cell phone.
bob
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