Power lines, wiring & solar

Hello, I submitted two days ago but forgot to mention some more important information. I mentioned among many things, and apart from wireless radiation, but I also want to add that radar is difficult for us electrosensitive to live by for several kilometers, and electrical cables in the air and along houses since they are so full of spikes these dats from transformers etc etc... They should be either digged down or wired or shielded and better earthed. And also chargers for electric cars are impossible to live close to, even if living on the fourth floor opposite to them in the street. These also need to be better protected. And even 12-volts-fences are harmful for electrosensitive people and hence the animals probably.... And I noticed that the cable connection behind the television for the tv-antennas can also have really high voltage, according to my electrosmog meter. I had to unplug it, but still it emitted something from the antenna hole probably which gave me a headache. And the smart tv:s are awful. People don't know that they are like having a constant wifi / mobile antenna radiating from the television while sitting there like affected zombies for hours ... That is the inbuilt chromecaster that emit a lot of mw/M2, microtesla and voltage, even when the television is on standby. Incredible... And finally I don't understand why there is no climate discussion about the temperature rise that I am sure is also provoked by the mobile antennas. It's logical, since they emit really high microwaves, which like in a microwave oven heat up the water in our atmosphere. No wonder ut goes so fast now with the melting of the ice bergs ... Can't you just stop it, please!!!

I get migraines when LED lights are too bright, when using AirPods or other Bluetooth devices, or even in cars that have too many electric components. This only began 3-4 years ago and I was never sensitive prior to this. I feel that the EMF and RF exposure had increased as I truly feel a wave of energy come over my body and the feeling triggers an anxiety like feeling that ceases immediately once I exit the room or shut off the device. I think we are being exposed to too many waves that are affecting health. This also happens with 5G and even when I’m in a room directly below solar panels. I know I’m not the only one who feels like this as most migraine sufferers are sensitive to LEDs and some Bluetooth. I ask that you please force vehicle manufacturers to reduce RF and EMF in cars, and bring back incandescent light bulbs! Im in NY and they’re extremely rare to find, so please make them more widespread. Please also make all the different hardware needed for incandescents jut as available as the LED light hardware. I’m happy with the current HHS and delighted to see new restrictions. I don’t like government regulation but please heavily restrict high wifi, RF and EMF technology. It’s affecting the lives of thousands (remember when Bluetooth ear pieces were said to cause cancer?).

Hi, i'm a male aged 65 from England, UK. I believe I have a sensitivity to Electro Magnetic sources of radiation that has been an issue for much of my life although I have probably only really been aware of this link for the past 20-25 years mainly through becoming aware of information and reports via the internet which answered questions regarding some health issues I was experiencing and caused me to consider RFR as a possible cause or antagonist. Below are a selection of comments made in response to a relevant survey i've just completed. I am responding as a concerned individual and hope that my brief responses will add to the debate and your further investigation into this harmful technology. I would like to state that grateful as I am for the opportunity to be able to offer my experiences on this matter, it is long overdue and really warrants more space than 5000 characters allows. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…)WiFi, Wireless tablet, Mobile phone, also smart meters...possibly to a lesser extent...also surprisingly (at least to me) is exposure to mains electricity fields especially in the bedroom. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):Have noticed adverse health effects I believe are caused by these devices for over 20 years. Effects are daily. . Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Mobile phone...after just 3-4 minutes using against my head I start to feel heat and an uncomfortable throbbing where the phone touches the side of my head...I never stay on the phone once I detect this. Wifi at home from router and partners laptop can cause my nasal passages to swell affecting my breathing initially. Over an extended period of exposure during the day I feel my blood pressure increasing, my face becomes flushed and I generally get very twitchy and feel uncomfortable. Can't concentrate very well or feel able to tackle anything requiring critical analysis I have found several ways to mitigate the effects on myself: 1) have used a silver material cover over my wifi router to reduce signal strength considerably plus I turn off my router overnight. 2) Have got rid of all DECT phones in the house and especially from bedroom...helped a lot. 3) I take a cocktail of vitamins and minerals daily the most important of which are Mg supplements 2 or 3 times a day...increases my ability to tolerate adverse effects from RFR. 4) I only own a 15 year old 2G phone and only use in emergency or if travelling outside local area to advise partner of ETA etc. I also turn off the mains electricity to my bedroom overnight to create as calm and relaxing sleeping environment as possible...this helps enormously and on the occasional time I forget to do this i usually suffer from blocked, stuffy nose, watery eyes, and slight brain fog/confusion for about 30 seconds or so. Occasionally I might lose my balance as I stand up from a sleeping position and have to grab the wall nearby to stop myself from falling over. I hardly drink alcohol nor do i use recreational drugs or smoke and this rarely ever happens when the power has been switched off. Eliminating DECT phones from the house and especially the bedroom was one of the most effective things I have done to mitigate the effects of RFR. Another possible side effect i've noticed is the need to urinate frequently when exposed to RFR. I distribute flyers twice a yea...between 2500-3000 each time over a period of about a month...usually about 100-150 in any one go...I can't do more than this as i often have to return home to use the toilet.This despite me having gone just before I set off. Sometimes I have to return within about 30-40 mins as the need to urinate comes on suddenly often without any or little warning. Only happens when I approach front doors...I believe when i get close enough to be affected by peoples DECT phones on windowsills or in the hall or when approaching smart meters at the front of the house. My other main health issue is blood presssure. I have had an issue with this for decades but feel it is made worse (and could even have been caused historically) by exposure to both RFR and LF mains electricity. Family events with multiple phones present affect my BP within 15-20 mins. (No more space...) Other strategies have involved the use of a cover over my wifi router to reduce its signal strength...I turn this off completely at night as well. I only own a 15-16 year old 2G phone which I only ever use in emergencies or to advise my family of ETA when out of area. I can't use it for more than 2-3 minutes before I start to feel uneasy, irritated and I feel my face becoming flushed and my blood pressure rising. Another minute or so and I start to feel the side of my head next to the phone heating up. I don't spend more than £10 a year on a PAYG basis using my phone and were phone boxes still available around the country like they once were I wouldn't use a mobile at all.

Laptop power supply EMF exceeds regulatory limits. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22315933/ "Exposure to electromagnetic fields from laptop use of "laptop" computers" "Abstract Portable computers are often used at tight contact with the body and therefore are called "laptop." The authors measured electromagnetic fields (EMFs) laptop computers produce and estimated the induced currents in the body, to assess the safety of laptop computers. The authors evaluated 5 commonly used laptop of different brands. They measured EMF exposure produced and, using validated computerized models, the authors exploited the data of one of the laptop computers (LTCs) to estimate the magnetic flux exposure of the user and of the fetus in the womb, when the laptop is used at close contact with the woman's womb. In the LTCs analyzed, EMF values (range 1.8-6 μT) are within International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR) Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines, but are considerably higher than the values recommended by 2 recent guidelines for computer monitors magnetic field emissions, MPR II (Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation) and TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), and those considered risky for tumor development. When close to the body, the laptop induces currents that are within 34.2% to 49.8% ICNIRP recommendations, but not negligible, to the adult's body and to the fetus (in pregnant women). On the contrary, the power supply induces strong intracorporal electric current densities in the fetus and in the adult subject, which are respectively 182-263% and 71-483% higher than ICNIRP 98 basic restriction recommended to prevent adverse health effects. Laptop is paradoxically an improper site for the use of a LTC, which consequently should be renamed to not induce customers towards an improper use"

I have had diagnosed ME/CFS since January 2017. Since 1998, I have had idiopathic chronic fatigue. I am writing as a patient to record my experiences of adverse effects resulting from exposure to RF/EMF. 1. CT SINUS -- PERMANENT DISABLEMENT: In September 2015 I was unable to tolerate the chemicals in a newly built Mirvac unit. As a result I was sent for a CT sinus by an immunologist. I believe the scan was performed twice in the one sitting. In the days immediately after the scan, I had a feeling of a burn in a band around my head just above the ears. I got two styes at once, one on each eye. It became hard for me to focus my vision, even though I had never had vision problems previously. I entered deep fatigue for two weeks, then gradually felt better. I had pain in my eyes, which gradually worsened over months. My cognition at first seemed faster, then I had cognitive decline over several months. The pain in my eyes and my cognition gradually worsened over the following year. By month 14, I was making frequent serious errors at work. At month 16, in January 2017, I suddenly became unable to work and then, roughly a week later, unable to walk. I had no doubt then and still have no doubt now that these ongoing, worsening symptoms were related to the scan. After leaving the flat because I could no longer work, over the following two and a half years I gradually re-learnt the ability to walk, then went back to work one day a week. Now I am able to work three days a week. Leaving the flat helped me recover but very serious lifelong damage was caused by the CT scan. I may unusually sensitive to ionising radiation. 2. MOBILE PHONE AND BLUETOOTH -- PAIN: I had my first mobile phone in the year 2000. I noticed in around 2002 that a spot above my left ear would give a sharp pain if I stayed on the phone for too long (differing amounts of time). The pain still recurs sometimes, now on either side, after long phone calls (>1h). I also get this pain intermittently from being close to my phone or laptop while it is connected to Wifi. However, this symptom has significantly reduced in frequency since the replacement of an outdated meter box on the outside wall of the room where I live most of the time, at my mother's place. To avoid this pain, I always have Bluetooth turned off on my phone and laptop. However, I very often use my laptop with wifi and my phone without discomfort. 3. SOLAR PANELS IN A RENTAL -- SLEEP ISSUES, IMMUNE ISSUES, AND COGNITIVE ISSUES: (3a) In 2021 I moved into a rented granny flat/garden studio that had solar panels on the roof. The roof was an unearthed metal roof. From the day I moved in I had trouble sleeping and woke up several times a night. I have never had this problem before or since. I remained living at my mother's place part of the time because of this issue, and I slept fine at my mother's place. In 2023 I purchased a shielding cloth (cloth with silver and copper) and slept under it like a blanket. At that point I was able to sleep enough in order to live in the flat full time, without needing to stay at my mother's place part of the time. (3b) However, in 2024 I had a tick bite while living there, and I was unable to recover from the infection or tolerate treatment. I left my rental to live at my mother's place, where I was able to tolerate treatment and recover from the infection. I believe that the solar panels diminished my ability fight the tick-borne infection. (3c) I found that when I was teaching online in the rental due to Covid, there were certain locations in the flat where my cognitive ability was too poor to run a class online. But when I moved to a different spot in the rental, my cognitive ability was strong enough to run my online class. I believe this was due to different levels of RF/EMF exposure from solar panels in different locations in the flat. 4. HOME WIFI -- TINNITUS AND HEALTH ISSUES: (4a) At my mother's place, my sister previously used wifi on her laptop all night. We had tension because I thought she was making noise. But it turned out that the noise was not acoustic. It was a form of tinnitus caused by RF/EMF, as far as we could work out. There was a precedent for this in 2016, when I was becoming very unwell after the CT scan, living in the Mirvac flat. I thought my upstairs neighbour was playing opera all night at high volume. But I now believe this was tinnitus caused by EF/EMF. (4b) Now, in my mother's house, we have the wifi turn off automatically at 10pm and my sister now uses ethernet during the night. This helps me relax and heal from my daily fatigue due to ME/CFS. If the wifi is on I feel less able to heal. This is consistent over time, but I often wouldn't be able to tell at one given point in time whether the wifi was on or off. It is not an allergy. Having the wifi off overnight has a significant beneficial effect on my health even if I am unable to tell for certain whether it is on or off at any given time.

COMMENT My legs and lower back were pained to the point that walking could only happen with support – looking back after some time this could be linked to a new TETRA mast which had been installed in the village. Two wires crossing the gardens were changed to high-tension wires that would enable broadband to be carried. Two years later in 2010 a shocking event further changed my life after an electrical company arrived where I lived and proceeded to cut down trees in the area, under wires and to allow accessible connection to the mast. Electricity meters were also changed in all the houses. At 5.00 pm on that evening my body was assaulted on many levels with effects such as a feeling of alert/panic, palpitations, my burning skin felt as if it wanted to turn inside-out. These were combined with a high-pitched ‘noise’ and a second ‘noise’ that sounded like a diesel engine running. Over the next few nights my body was still on alert and my body was actually thrown out of the bed and in those few seconds I woke up balancing myself on my feet with my arms stretched out before me. The companies related to the mast and electricity were contacted and sound professionals but none were helpful. An inability to sleep as my body was being tormented led to personal attempts to find the source of the noise and wandering down streets and lanes in the dead of night became usual. No source was ever found. Why – because what was happening had already been well studied by Alan Frey in USA and it was called ‘microwave hearing’. The inability to sleep saw attempts made to seek sleep, rest and peace in the car, shed, tent in the garden etc but the ‘noise’ was everywhere. For safety in the dark hours I had to sleep on a mattress downstairs after removing electrical wiring in the fire alarms etc. That was the first physical indication that it was definitely electricity that was causing these effects. Occasionally it was necessary to ask friends if I could spend a night in their house as my home and village was, for me, dangerous. The ‘noise’ was not in other parts of the county and this was another clue leading to my discovery that I was suffering from electrohypersensitivity/microwave sickness. I experienced area after area in the county changing as technological infrastructure was installed. After a year of pain, vertigo, anxiety, concentration issues, palpitations and pain/seizures in legs and eventual wearing down of my body a stage was reached when I knew I had a choice of dying or moving house. What was of great interest was the inability of other people to experience the effects of the changes. Moving was achieved with the help of good friends and since then ‘smart’ meters have been installed leading immediately to an environmental deterioration. The exponential rise of technology has seen additional effects such as nose-bleeds, more variety of pain, memory issues, burning and tingling of skin (like ants running over me), inability to sleep, no peace and no rest, no silence, no possibility of reflection or indeed of staying in one place for long as my body absorbs the electromagnetic/low frequency pulsed microwave radiation from modern technology. My life is now about balancing out positive activities, especially in wooded areas and avoiding places where people congregate such as hospitals, travel, theatres, film houses, public transport, public services – places where people congregate and are drawing in signals with their mobile phones and tech devices Two years after moving CANCER was diagnosed Given the account of my experience of man-made artificial pulsed, modulated, directional signals from modern technology I believe that one reference book is sufficient to cover all effects with up-to-date proven and clear evidence from independent scientists who actually study the biological and health effects of Radio Frequency Microwave and Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields as used in wireless communications and other technological applications. That book is entitled ‘Electromagnetic Fields of Wireless Communications: Biological and Health Effects and includes a number of studies by well-known scientists in the field. It is edited by Professor Dimitri Panagopoulos and published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group 2023. It is also available as a PDF on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366089127_Electromagnetic_Fields_of_Wireless_Communications_Biological_and_Health_Effects Re: Microwave Hearing – a study entitled Microwave Auditory Effect written by Dr. James C Lin, formerly a member of the ICNIRP is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363461470_The_Microwave_Auditory_Effect

https://karger.com/neo/article-abstract/112/2/187/231565/Electrical-Grounding-Improves-Vagal-Tone-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext "Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants" "Abstract Background: Low vagal tone (VT) is a marker of vulnerability to stress and the risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Electric fields produced by equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) induce an electric potential measurable on the skin in reference to ground. An electrical connection to ground reduces the skin potential and improves VT in adults. Objectives: We aimed to measure the electric field strengths in the NICU environment and to determine if connecting an infant to electrical ground would reduce the skin potential and improve VT. We also wished to determine if the skin potential correlated with VT. Methods: Environmental magnetic flux density (MFD) was measured in and around incubators. Electrical grounding (EG) was achieved with a patch electrode and wire that extended to a ground outlet. We measured the skin potential in 26 infants and heart rate variability in 20 infants before, during, and after grounding. VT was represented by the high-frequency power of heart rate variability. Results: The background MFD in the NICU was below 0.5 mG, but it ranged between 1.5 and 12.7 mG in the closed incubator. A 60-Hz oscillating potential was recorded on the skin of all infants. With EG, the skin voltage dropped by about 95%. Pre-grounding VT was inversely correlated with the skin potential. VT increased by 67% with EG. After grounding, the VT fell to the pre-grounding level. Conclusion: The electrical environment affects autonomic balance. EG improves VT and may improve resilience to stress and lower the risk of neonatal morbidity in preterm infants"

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless. I moved back into my parents home in April of 2010. About 18 months later, I started to notice a small round growth on the middle of my my chest and a smaller one on the back of my head under my hair. Over the next 18 months these growths continue to get larger. By spring time of 2013 the chest growth grew to the size of a marble and I then accidental tore it open, it bleed and noticed in had reduced in size. Over the next couple months the growth regain its size and I decided to see a dermatologist and was diagnosed with Basil cancer for both growths on my chest and back of my head. I had surgery to remove the chest growth and Mohs surgery for the growth on the back of my head for a total cost of $5K. I asked the dermatologist what might be the causes and he answered to use sun screen lotion and I was stunned by the answer sine I don't sun bath topless. I began my own investigation in the summer of 2013 and started researching toxins in the home since the cancer began about 18 months after I moved into the back unused bedroom in my parents home. My research came across the EMF threat and I then purchased 2 EMF meters: one for testing wireless EMF and the other to test electricity flowing through wire using a Tri-Field meter. When I tested my bedroom, it showed a high level of EMF both from wireless transmissions: a Wifi router always on and within 6 feet of my sleeping bed and from a Utility box Smart Meter on the outside of a the bedroom wall within 8 feet of my bed. In addition, the house power come off an outside pole and routes through the Utility box to the main power cable that routes in the ceiling above my sleeping bed. As soon as I moved out of that back bedroom, I noticed I slept better and did not experience any further cancer growths.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/1107612 "Maternal Exposure to Magnetic Fields During Pregnancy in Relation to the Risk of Asthma in Offspring" "Results After adjustment for potential confounders, a statistically significant linear dose-response relationship was observed between increasing maternal median daily MF exposure level in pregnancy and an increased risk of asthma in offspring: every 1-mG increase of maternal MF level during pregnancy was associated with a 15% increased rate of asthma in offspring (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04-1.27). Using the categorical MF level, the results showed a similar dose-response relationship: compared with the children whose mothers had a low MF level (median 24-hour MF level, ≤0.3 mG) during pregnancy, children whose mothers had a high MF level (>2.0 mG) had more than a 3.5-fold increased rate of asthma (aHR, 3.52; 95% CI, 1.68-7.35), while children whose mothers had a medium MF level (>0.3-2.0 mG) had a 74% increased rate of asthma (aHR, 1.74; 95% CI, 0.93-3.25). A statistically significant synergistic interaction was observed between the MF effect and a maternal history of asthma and birth order (firstborn). Conclusion Our findings provide new epidemiological evidence that high maternal MF levels in pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma in offspring. Asthma is the most common chronic condition among children. Approximately 13% of children younger than 18 years (9.4 million children in the United States) have asthma.1 Based on reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asthma is a leading cause of hospitalization and emergency department visits for children younger than 18 years in the United States, with staggering annual costs of more than $30 billion (http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/asthma).1 The prevalence of asthma has been steadily rising during the last several decades, with an increase of about 74% from 1980 to 1996. While not ruling out genetic susceptibility, such a secular increase indicates the presence of important environmental risk factors that remain elusive. Environmental exposures during pregnancy could affect fetal development of the immune system and lungs and thus have an impact on the risk of asthma in offspring.2-5 Among the limited research, chemical exposures have represented much of the focus, while the potential of environmental physical exposures has rarely been examined. One such physical exposure is increasing man-made electromagnetic fields (EMFs). In addition to traditional low-frequency EMFs from power lines and appliances, the buildup of increasingly stronger wireless networks both inside and outside living and work spaces and the proliferation of cell phones and other wireless devices have led to human populations being surrounded by EMFs of increasing intensity. This parallel increase in both EMF exposure and asthma prevalence in the past several decades warrants examination. Studies have shown that EMFs could adversely affect reproductive outcomes and the immune system.6-15 A recent study also showed an EMF effect on brain cell activities.16,17 Therefore, it is conceivable that exposure to high EMFs, especially during pregnancy (the period of fetal development), may have an impact on the risk of asthma in offspring. To examine this hypothesis, we conducted a prospective study based on a cohort of pregnant women whose daily exposure to magnetic fields (MFs) was captured objectively by a meter during their pregnancy and whose offspring from the index pregnancy were followed up for as long as 13 years for their asthma diagnosis."

EMF from power lines. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25824762/ "Increased risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) by prenatal and postnatal exposure to high voltage power lines: a case control study in Isfahan, Iran" "Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common hematologic malignancies, accounting for one fourth of all childhood cancer cases. Exposure to environmental factors around the time of conception or pregnancy can increase the risk of ALL in the offspring.This study aimed to evaluted the role of prenatal and postnatal exposure to high voltage power lines on the incidence of childhood ALL.This cross-sectional case control study was carried out on 22 cases and 100 controls who were born and lived in low socioeconomic families in Isfahan and hospitalized for therapeutic purposes in different hospitals from 2013-2014.With regard to the underlying risk factors, familial history and parental factors were noted but in this age, socioeonomic and zonal matched case control study, prenatal and childhood exposure to high voltage power lines was considered as the most important environmental risk factors of ALL (p=0.006, OR=3.651, CI 95%, 1.692-7.878). As the population was of low socioeconomic background, use of mobiles, computers and microwave was negligible. Moreover prenatal and postnatal exposure to indoor electrically charged objects was not determined to be a significant environmental factor. Thus, pre and post natal exposure to high voltage power lines and living in pollutant regions as well as familial influence could be described as risk factors of ALL for the first time in a low socioeconomic status Iranian population"