Developers & Builders

What are you thinking - constructing new homes under high voltage power lines is okay?

Scenario: You are smarter than the average developer/builder and have found a spare plot of land or one ripe for redevelopment and think you are well placed to turn a profit. There is only one 'fly in the ointment'; it is under or close to overhead high voltage power lines or a substation. Could exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) be an issue?

You have looked into the legal situation and established there are NO UK laws or guidelines whatsoever preventing you from going ahead. Naturally you try to sell off-plan as much as possible and you will have fulfilled your 'affordable housing quota' with the less attractive plots. Even so, some properties fail to sell. Encouraged by interest and sales already made, you complete the development as new homeowners move in. With luck you will be able to sell the remaining properties and still make a profit even if you have to reduce some prices. If prices of slow-to-sell properties are reduced too far however, prospective buyers may ask 'Why?'  New homeowners within the development may conclude that they paid too much and the value of their property might not be what they had hoped.

In the real world of 2019, public awareness concerning the adverse health dangers associated with high voltage power lines is growing, as rightly it should and people are voting with their feet. Nobody wants to invest in a property that is intrinsically unsafe and for which they may have difficulty attracting buyers when, sooner or later, it comes time to sell. 

The acceptance of risk and the consequences of a decision to buy or not is one that prospective purchasers and their families will have to live with. As the developer, you will likely move on to other projects safeguarded by the officially maintained status quo and inadequate advice from The W.H.O. - World Health Organisation and Public Health England - P.H.E.

People are increasingly rejecting the hollow reassurances of sellers and estate agents; 'Pylons? - They’re not an issue. The Government has given them the all-clear.' Even cleverly framed 'artists impressions’ or photographs may be insufficient ‘guarantees’ when a simple drive-by provides enough due diligence for buyers to look elsewhere.

In the present uncertain climate The Precautionary Principle remains sound and savvy buyers are increasingly unwilling to accept the risk. Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware remains as true today as it ever was.

Developers and builders may benefit from an early investigation before investing time and money in potentially compromised properties or land. Likewise, where EMR might be an issue, Purchasers can save expense and heartache by engaging a qualified EMR surveyor early in the buying process.

Knowledge Is Power: 
Emerging understanding informs the future.
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Defibrillators

One of the most distressing and downright dangerous aspects of man-made electromagnetic radiation is its ability to upset the beating of the heart. When the heart's electrical rhythm is disrupted atrial fibrillation or tachycardia can result and the heart's ability to pump blood in a co-ordinated fashion is lost. 

Such a disorganised and chaotic state may spontaneously correct itself however if the heart is unable to restore its muscular synchronisation within a few minutes, minimal blood flow will starve not only the brain but the heart as well. 

Unless order is swiftly restored, the person dies.

Defibrillators are made to stop the heart – dead, using a single powerful electric shock. The expectation is that once the heart's ineffectual tremblings are stopped, its two internal pacemakers (SA & AV nodes) will spontaneously restore proper synchronised function and normal blood flow will resume. 

Sadly that is not always the case.

The heart (and the brain) are controlled by very small signals making both susceptible to even low-level pulsed electromagnetic radiation. Rather than address the effects of electro-pollution and particularly the rise in atrial fibrillation and tachycardia, a technological fix that can be sold to communities across the world is now being rolled-out.

As our world becomes more saturated with always-on, pulsed digital, microwave radiation from Tetra / 2G / 3G / 4G-ESN / 5G masts, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the thousands of transmitting low earth satellites presently being deployed, quick access to a defibrillator may become crucial to survival.

In the meantime, routinely minimising cumulative in-home/at-work/in-car electromagnetic exposure may lessen the chance of such life-threatening traumas happening to you or your loved ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_block

Invisible Assailant - A Tracker

Last summer my young nephew visited by train and stayed overnight. Questioning him on arrival, “Yes” he’d turned off his smart-phone and his tablet computer as well as his e-reader and  Bluetooth^® headphones and left his Fit-Bit^® at home. He assured me he had nothing else wireless.
 
I checked with my EMFields Acousticom2 just to be sure and everything was quiet. We had dinner together and talked until late. He went to bed in the guest room and I turned off the mains, as I routinely do. Imagine then my surprise at about 6am the following morning soundly asleep in the room next door, when I was suddenly and brutally yanked wide awake by repeated slams to my head. I could not endure the beating and had to immediately get up and flee. I checked with my Acousticom2 and sure enough, there was what I deduced was a Bluetooth^® transmitting device somewhere in the house. From downstairs it was clear the signal was coming from his room. I went for a walk to get out of range, reluctant to wake my nephew after his long journey and upon my return a couple of hours later I questioned him, quite vigorously. 

“No”, he assured me, he “really did not have anything else that could be transmitting.”

A moment later he said,“Ah....It could be the Chipolo^®.”

“What the hell is a Chipolo^®?” I said, unimpressed. 

“Dad gave it to me because I kept losing my keys.” he said. “Its a tracker.” 
 
He ferreted in his bag and produced a little black disc attached to his keys. My meter confirmed it was indeed the offending source of the sudden attack that had catapulted me from my bed. 

A Chipolo^® is sealed-for-life, a little larger than a 50 pence piece and costs around £20. A quick on-line search revealed it also comes in a credit-card sized equivalent. Battery life is advertised as a year. Unable to turn it off, we removed the little bugger, wrapped it in aluminium foil in a vain attempt to isolate it and resorted to placing it in the shed far away from the house. 

Electro hyper sensitives (EHS) are often affected more severely when they are inactive i.e. when stationary/sleeping so how had I been fine all evening and able to sleep soundly through the night?

It appears, to save battery life, the device hibernates when it gets no response. At around 6am each day, forestry lorries start to come past the house. I can only conclude that a smart-phone in one of the passing cabs, constantly sniffing for any Bluetooth^® device, had woken the Chipolo^® and me, up. By co-opting other people’s Bluetooth^® devices, the short-range Chipolo^® transmitter can hop, skip and jump via Wi-Fi and the Internet to anywhere in the world. Low-powered Bluetooth^® tracking devices can thus be located even when their paired device is out of range.

How on earth is an EHS sufferer to counter similar silent and insidious attacks from now common personal wireless devices that are typically hidden from view?

How is anyone else supposed to believe the poor unfortunate (and oft ridiculed) EHS sufferer when such occurrences are so far beyond public awareness?

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