Effectson human being living near high tension power lines (1 Viewer)

[Illena]

any suggested source?

 

[Sam.]

Are you just talking about information about the effects, where it occurs etc?

Just try typing it in to Google and it'll give you a whole list of websites. Have a look at the scholarly articles as well, quite a lot of them contain real and acurate research you can use. Most of them are written about increased risk of childhood leukemia. Here are just a few of the first ones:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8427647&dopt=Citation
http://www.springerlink.com/(krsh4e...l,97,121;linkingpublicationresults,1:100150,1
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/winter/abt.htm

 

[Mountain.Dew]

mmmmmmm r u sure this question is relevant to the syllabus? i do remember describing ways to minimize harm from high tension power lines, but not the effect it has...

anyway, this is what i remember. most of the harm is really contributed from actual electrocution:

-can disrupt the electrical nerve pulses in the body
-burns, scars
-involuntary muscle contractions
-heart fribillation- yr heart wouldnt beat normally, and so wouldnt be effective in pumping both oxygenated blood to body and deoxygenated blood to lungs, and so, u will eventually lie from lack of oxygen.
-remember: most of the damage is caused by CURRENT, not by VOLTAGE