Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News
28 December 2010
CHENNAI: Even as pigeon-racing finds more patronage in the city, urbanisation has begun to pose new threat to mankind's oldest messengers — the homer pigeons — as more and more cellphone towers sprout in the city. NORWOOD -- Asphodel-Norwood Township residents who want to show their concern about the impact of industrial wind turbines on human health and property values are signing a petition. Asphodel-Norwood council voted last week to make the petition by Progressive Conservative Durham MPP John O'Toole available to residents concerned about the spread of wind turbine developments after resident Debbie Lynch submitted the document to council. The petition also asks the government to declare a moratorium on wind turbines until a study into their health and environmental impacts can be completed. Noting the municipality has declared a moratorium on the construction of wind turbines in the township, Reeve Doug Pearcy said council should support Lynch's request to make the petition available to township residents. "There is a grave concern across the province about this Green Energy Act and how it has removed all responsibility from the municipalities. So that's why I support this." The petition is available at the township office, the Norwood and Westwood libraries and other municipal facilities. Energy Farming Ontario wants to build three 1.8-megawatt wind turbines on privately owned land south of Norwood near Hastings in a project called Wind Farm Collie Hill. But the company has faced opposition from nearby residents, just as the company also has encountered with its other plans for wind turbines on land near Millbrook (Whispering Woods Wind Park), Bethany (Settlers Landing Wind Park and Snowy Ridge Wind Park), Roseneath (Clean Breeze Wind Park) and Orono (ZEP Wind Farm Ganaraska). The Brighton-based company has held public meetings on all of these proposed projects over the past few months. Community Press A family living near a wind farm in Askam, Cumbria (7 turbines, 62.5m tall) describe the noise as 'a washing machine that's gone wrong. Its whooshing drumming just goes on and on, it's torture' and 'it is an audio version of Chinese Water Torture. The noise is such that it is felt as much as heard'. To sign up for WEEP News: newssignup@weepinitiative.org (provide name and e-mail address) W.E.E.P. – The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution
Times of India
In Chennai, at least one such tower has collapsed, while in Mumbai there has been some study to monitor the disadvantages of electromagnetic radiation ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/No-cell-towers-atop-buildings-without-PMCs-nod/articleshow/7147516.cms
Scientists develop novel textiles that screen out radiation
December 23, 2010 (Germany)
Scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, in partnership with the ITCF Denkendorf, have developed the world's first textiles which effectively screen out both electromagnetic (EM) and infrared (IR) radiation. Until now, textile materials have ever only offered a choice of protection, either from the so-called electrosmog caused by electrical devices, or from thermal radiation, for example from sources of fire or intensive solar radiation.
The artificial fibres are given their screening effect either by dosing (integrating) or by coating them with indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent oxide compound which is also used in the touchscreens of smart phones. In tests, the textile treatment proved to be resistant to washing, abrasion and weathering. It was also possible to prove that the treatment was not biologically harmful - and nor were the garments made uncomfortable to wear.
Project leader Dr. Edith Claßen envisages the innovative fabric being used primarily for occupational clothing: "These novel materials are not only extremely effective at screening radiation but they also conduct electricity so they are anti-static. This makes them ideal for use in Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for firemen, workers in foundries and welding workshops, in the semiconductor industry or for maintenance staff working on telecommunications systems."
However, Dr. Claßen can also see many potential applications in domestic and technical textile products: "For example, you could imagine making roller blinds which not only screen out solar radiation in summer to keep the room cool, but at the same time also offer protection from the electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone masts in the vicinity."
These multifunctional materials may well also be of interest to the military: if used for uniforms, they make the wearer "invisible" to infrared cameras and at the same time they give protection from electromagnetic radiation.
AT&T releases dramatic anti-texting while driving documentary
Township circulates petition against wind turbines
By MARK HOULT, QMI AGENCY
Concern has increased as most modern wind turbines are in excess of 100 ... into the multiple health and environmental effects caused by wind turbines and ...
