Dirty Electricity, DE, is also known as High Frequency Voltage Transients or HFVT. It is any deviation from the normal 60 cycle electric sine wave that we pay the utility for in order to power our homes and businesses. DE is not useful for consumer, industrial or commercial usage and it actually shortens the life of electronics and causes measurable bio-markers, painful health symptoms and long term disease in living organisms. In the quest to reduce electric power usage modern electric motors and electronic devices now use an inverter or switch mode power supply, SMPS, which create DE by design. It is unfortunate that brilliant electrical engineers at the FCC, IEEE and EPRI are not considering the health damage that this unintended electrical pollution called DE is causing. They see it plainly on their oscilloscopes but will not recognize it as a bio-toxin. DE radiates off of all energized wiring in the form of radio frequency radiation ranging from 2,000-200,000 cycles per second. The window of greatest biological damage is between 4,000 and 100,000 cycles per second. The real solution is to require manufactures to include a very effective and inexpensive filter in each electronic device as it is made: the cost would be insignificant.
Energy efficient lighting can create dirty electricity
DE measured by Stetzer meter and special Oscilloscope
I am measuring dirty electricity (DE) in private Sacramento grade schools and high schools at levels of 4,000 to more than 20,000 GS units on my Stetzer Meters at the last three schools I assessed at the request of informed parents and in the company of school staff. These levels are extremely hazardous and are 80-400X over the 50 GS unit hazard level suggested by Dr Sam Milham in the article below. When the lights are off the DE level can be 100 GS units and when they are on it can be over 20,000 GS units.
All of this DE created by these lighting fixtures is made in the name of saving money and reducing electric demand. I wonder if these energy efficient lights save the school enough money to pay for the potential health damage and learning impairments they can cause for students and staff? Most people have never heard of DE, what causes it or that it causes health damage.
For DE detection, measurement, visual display to school staff and determination of specific frequency of DE pollution I often use a specially filtered oscilloscope in addition to a Stetzer meter. When the DE is reduced the red trace on the scope flattens out and the reading on the Stetzer Meter is much lower.
There are three solutions to this DE problem: keep the lights off, replace entire lamp or the switch mode power supply (SMPS) in each lamp fixture or install appropriate DE filters at optimum locations on the effected wiring circuits. The second option is the best and the last one is the quickest and least costly in many cases.
The parents that ordered these EMF assessments want the DE reduced at the schools in order to reduce their child’s exposure to DE because of the learning and health problems it causes. A presentation of the complete report to the School board and staff is to be made shortly. More and more EMF aware parents realize that they have to make sure the classrooms for their child is an EMF safe place to spend six hours per day for five days per week.
Cancer Cluster associated with Dirty Electricity at California middle school
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Conclusion The cancer incidence in the teachers at this school is unusually high and is strongly associated with high frequency voltage transients, which may be a universal carcinogen, similar to ionizing radiation. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2008. 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.