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What Is A Little EMF ("Line Losses?") Among FriendsSubmitted by Charles Frost on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 20:06.
While again fruitlessly trying to clear our archives of accumulated links, we were happily reacquainted with Richard Box's installation called Field. Realized in February 2004 while he was Artist-in-Residence of the Physics Department at Bristol University, the project involved over a thousand fluorescent bulbs “planted” underneath high voltage AC transmission lines. Unwired, the bulbs drew energy from the surrounding electromagnetic radiation and lit up, making for what must have been a marvelous sight.
Quoting a press release given prior to the event:
It has been remarked that Richard Box was trying to draw attention to the dangers of overhead power lines but the artist maintains that he was simply making visible what is otherwise invisible.
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Maurice won't even grow food under high voltage
Maurice was looking around the Hough Bakeries site and Lakeview Avenue with me and we discussed all the property along Lakeview that is under very high voltage lines and I commented there are some places no human should live... and Maurice commented he wouldn't even grow food within 75 feet of such high voltage lines. Yet we do allow people to live under such conditions... thanks for the great visualizations of the ignorance of modern man.
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I am glad that the PD finally picked up on a story I waited for them to revisit it last year, but they did not.
Any one who has worked at a hospital knows that it is a microcosm of a city. How well do our hospitals function, especially under crisis conditions?