From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 11:35:29 PDT
At 10:28 AM -0700 8/26/02, Bruce Beattie wrote:
>There is a professor heare that has been working with farmers in the
>mid west and
>he has established without a dought that the energy from power lines that is
>returning via the ground* causes predictable and significant damage to cattle,
>and I think he said humans as well, but I am not absolutely shure about that.
>The professors name is Marty Graham and he is part of the EECS
>department at UC
>Berkeley. I know him personally, and I will vouch for his integrety.
>
>*Although they are not supposed to do this, it is common practice for Utility
>Companies to use the Earth as a neutral or ground return to save money on
>stringing additional cable. One of the things this guy has been
>doing is taking
Thats something other than just radiated EMF or EMP. That's real
current traveling through the ground. Likely a small current that is
measurable. Over time I can see that causing problems or real damge
if there were a current spike.
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