Need info on a strange question

Yellowhill

Not even sure if this is the correct place for this post but..here goes.
My friend and I were talking and discussing the fact that my three year old son's bedroom is directly above the electricity fusebox /meter in the house where the electricity comes in.
We got to talking about electronic fields and pylons etc and we started wondering if the electricity below my son's bedroom could have an effect on his health (ie cancer scares etc). His bed is positioned directly above the meter / fusebox board but obviously seperated by a ceiling / floor.
Would there even be any electro-magnetic 'signal' from the box.
Is this all gibberish? My friend and I are still debating this...
Elecricticty = cancer scares = urban myths?

Adamisconfused

The current passing through a 'fuse' is relatively low and the EM emissions are negligible.
Even if there was a proven link between pylons and health problems, you have little reason to worry about a fuse box. I’d be more worried about him eating a bag of skittles.

Pgibson

Yellowhill wrote: »

Not even sure if this is the correct place for this post but..here goes.
My friend and I were talking and discussing the fact that my three year old son's bedroom is directly above the electricity fusebox /meter in the house where the electricity comes in.
We got to talking about electronic fields and pylons etc and we started wondering if the electricity below my son's bedroom could have an effect on his health (ie cancer scares etc). His bed is positioned directly above the meter / fusebox board but obviously seperated by a ceiling / floor.
Would there even be any electro-magnetic 'signal' from the box.
Is this all gibberish? My friend and I are still debating this...
Elecricticty = cancer scares = urban myths?

Your son will probably be exposed to more EM radiation when sitting in class,walking into a shop,walking down an average city-centre street,playing with his computer,looking at TV,etc. etc.

The wires go all over your house remember !

Don't worry about it !

amen

should be no problem with fuse boxes but I'm prob going to get flammed but there may be a very small risk from high tension power wires (used to transmit power on the national grid) and possible cancer clusters but hard to prove.

EM fields have also been shown to help broken bones heal

AtomicHorror

amen wrote: »

should be no problem with fuse boxes but I'm prob going to get flammed but there may be a very small risk from high tension power wires (used to transmit power on the national grid) and possible cancer clusters but hard to prove.

EM fields have also been shown to help broken bones heal

Don't take this as a flame but do you have any meta-analyses which show causal links in either case? That or single large-scale studies?

rebel girl 15

i know that some people can't sleep anywhere near those electric boxes - interferes with their sleep, and the electronic pulses in the brain - true story

r3nu4l

I've had to delete a number of posts from this thread, mostly tripe Let's try and keep the discussion even vaguely scientific.

Thanks guys

amen

Don't take this as a flame but do you have any meta-analyses which show causal links in either case? That or single large-scale studies?

I went looking for these as I found them before from the USA mid west around 94/95 but can't find them at the moment.
The risk I belive was very small around 1-2% much less than other factors such as smoking!

Personnally I wouldn't have a problem living near one or sleeping near once was just putting it out there as it is a sciene forum and all aspects of sciene chould be discussed both the good/bad.

PS I'm not taking it as a flame. Just a friendly discussion

Capt'n Midnight

fuse box is 50Hz frequency which means any EM is very low energy
electrically it's only 230 V so a lot lower electric field that a TV 30,000 V
magnetic effects are less that a pair of headphones and at a much lower frequency. Frogs don't seem to be affected by a magnetic field strong enough to levitate them , even though a field that strong would destroy most consumer goods with magnetic materials in them.

being in the same room as a microwave would be far worse , they are allowed leak up to 1 Watt

mobile phones are designed to radiate and to boost the power if signal is blocked by walls and you will get a far larger dose than from any base station except those mounted on pubs which are closer to the public than the ones people protest about

Old CRT TV's and monitors will have 30,000 Volts static and be chucking out radiation in the ten's of KHz range , not to mention some X-Rays , and still with them the most dangerous thing is the dust on the screen may be pushed in to the air when you turn them on.

About 30% of the radiation from Fluorescent lamps is ultraviolet if you want something to worry about