> I remember a similar argument with power lines.
Which, IIRC, have been now shown to have an effect, albeit low level.
Last I heard, the argument was that some electric power lines, perhaps
only poorly built ones, create corona discharges of a type that causes
particles in the ambient air to coagulate into aerosols that poison a
few humans.
(I used the term ambient air, suggesting that it constituency might
depend in part on what what was released into that air; the release
could be a thousand kilometers away. The release may be human-made or
it may be `natural' but geographically localized, as the `smoke' in
the south eastern US Great Smokey Mountains, or it may be `natural'
but not geographically localized. Also, the effect may be more
pronounced downwind of the source, which is not necessary downwind of
the average direction of the wind.)
I have driven under many power lines over the past four decades; I
only remember one that I could hear snapping when I was driving. It
was loud! That clearly was a power line that wasted electricity.
The effect, if there is one, may exist; but if it does exist, it is
hidden in a low signal-to-noise ratio, sufficiently hidden that
housing prices below power lines are not reduced (at least, that is
what I remember reading once somewhere in a source that I have forgot,
like the source about power lines' aerosol creation.)
Has the aeosol argument been disposed of or is it now accepted or is
it not discussed? I don't know.
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