Subject: Re: High Voltage Bees
> > Because of the fast fall off
> >in field strength with distance
>
> >in field strength with distance
>
>         One shouldn't assume this falloff is monotonic.  A paper in
> Wireless World a decade ago discussed how the shape of the
> field gradient
> could focus cosmic rays (highly ionizing radiation, which of
> course the
> actual 50Hz or 60 Hz mains fields are not) and offered
> evidence (from big
> Geiger counters) that it is so.
The electromagnetic energy from the power lines will drop very fast
(square
of the distance? wish I still had my books). Some basic information on
radiated waves is here: http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/afwa/U2.htm
http://hawkins.pair.com/eRadiation.html
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/whyantradiates.html

adalbert goertz remarks:

The electric and magnetic field gradients for a cable/power line
is not that fast and NOT like the inverse sq of the distance, but rather
inverse LINEAR distance. However, the magnetic field drops down to less
than that of the earth magnetic field (0.2 Gauss) except in the immediate
area of the power line. None of this causes a Geiger counter to click.
So, power lines do not present dangers to anyone close to the ground.
(meaning farther than 5 yards from the power line).

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