Subject: Sodium Vapor Lights (fwd)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 045800 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:54:32 -0400
From: "John D. Evans"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Sodium Vapor Lights
Dear Roy,
Regarding sodium vapor lights, I would like to add some of Dr John N Ott's
comments in relation to Bill Lurie's concerns.
As you may remember, I have been reading Ott's works since the late 1950's,
and for some time I corresponded with him. His findings, in his original
experiments dealing with time-lapse photography, showed that the type of
light he used radically affected the growth of plants. Later, he found
that animals are affected by artificial light. However, if the artificial
lighting spectrum emitted is as close as humanly possible to the natural
spectrum (including near ultraviolet, but not far ultraviolet), animals and
plants under that kind of light (usually full-spectrum, cathode shielded
fluorescent lights) behave normally. He decided that artificial lighting
that distorts the natural sunlight spectrum can very significantly alter
living organisms.
He says, "Photobiological responses to specific colors, or relatively
narrow bands of wavelengths within not only the visible spectrum but also
the ultraviolet, give further evidence of the need for scientific control
of experimental laboratory light sources."1 In a later book, he suggests,
"We take for granted that a combustion engine needs an ignition system, . .
. But we totally ignore the biological combustion, or metabolic ignition,
system -- that is, the interaction of light or electromagnetic energy.
Light is generally thought of as something other than such electrical
energy as radio waves, but it is just as much a part of the total
electromagnetic spectrum and, therefore, actually does come within the
technical classification of being electric energy."2
He gives an example as to how jaundiced premature babies (with the
condition called "hyperbilirubinemia") are treated with blue lights. He
suggests that "If a particular ailment can be treated with certain
wavelengths of light, we might logically assume that living under an
artificial light source that lacks these wavelengths can contribute to
causing the ailment in the first place."3
Dr Ott feels that "The recent rapid swing toward the new, more efficient
but grossly distorted pink and orange spectrum of the new type sodium vapor
lighting raises very serious questions concerning their effect on human
health and behavior."4 Later, he tells us about a School Board in Forth
Worth, Texas, who, in 1977, voted unanimously to remove high-pressure
sodium vapor lights from about a dozen schools. There had been many
complaints by both teachers and students regarding such problems as
headaches, eyestrain, nervous tension, and nausea.
In my opinion, almost all gaseous discharge lights emit distorted spectrums
that can seriously affect living things -- plants, animals, and human
beings. The sodium vapor light is a known culprit.
The paragraph below is in defence of Guru's expressions regarding what he
feels about some "scientific" research. Dr Ott tells us that he was asked
many times by various corporations to perform certain experiments using
time-lapse photography. Here is what he says:
"The clear-cut line of demarcation in the results obtained in some industry
research or industry sponsored research and that done by independent
researchers at top ranking universities is of great concern to me.
However, the pressures of vested interests are very great. This became
very obvious to me from the number of times I was asked to make time-lapse
pictures that would show results ranging from what was frequently described
as just "gilding the lily a little" to pictures that would be
unquestionably fraudulent."5 He says that such problems are not his
alone, and he goes on to cite several examples of "tame" scientists'
findings with widely varying results.
NOTES: 1 -- John N. Ott, HEALTH AND LIGHT, Devin-Adair, Old Greenwich, CT,
1973/76, pp. 37-8.
All other quotations are from: John N. Ott, LIGHT, RADIATION, & YOU,
Devin-Adair, Old Greenwich, CT, 1982.
2 -- p. 21
3 -- p. 23
4 -- p. 30
5 -- p. 136
Take care, everyone; don't wear any pink sunglasses!
John
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