Subject:  EMFCALC (Woodley)..
Date:     Fri, 26 Nov 1999 040948 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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......Richard and ED: 

I believe it is more correct to say that "Ed's table" (message below)
permits "magnetic field" calculations......  Now, if we only knew 
the "magnetic field" to be the critical metric.......????  There are 
other potentially more "guilty" metrics to be considered -- not to
exclude the electrical "ground current" aspects, which convey a magnetic
field component of their own......?????  And, of course, the electrical
field, itself, has yet to be exonerated.....  (Or the transients, etc.)

Remember ... the final versions of the NIEHS (RAPID) study carefully
**blurred** the fact that their conclusions were based on "proximity"
-- nearness -- exposure (rather than any actual measurable metric) ...
because (they admitted) they did not know which of the "metrics" counted
most....!!  (In their conclusions, they TOTALLY ignored and failed to even
mention the "popular" 2 or 3 miligauss exposure criterion......???)

One of the 'genuine' outcomes of that study effort -- I believe -- was
that  the TWA (time weighted average) of the "magnetic field" was NOT a
very useful metric to rely on......!!!  That they failed to make that
conclusion more explicit, reflected their embarrassment(?) that they
had -- throughout the whole project -- relied on it almost totally!!!

(Bureaucracies do not do a good job of admitting their own errors.....)

Thus, the fact that Ed's table is predicting only one metric (the
magnetic field) is of some concern to me.....  It may be a useful
'surrogate' -- but, at this point, we simply don't know.....

Cheerio.....  (Still, the distinction I am making is terribly important --
I believe....)

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:38:55 -0500
From: "Richard W.  Woodley" 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: EMFCALC

I have just placed Ed Maxey's EMFCALC program on the Bridlewood
Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service website for download.

The program could prove very helpful to any who face the prospect of a new
power
line being placed in their neighborhood. It permits rapid calculation of
the EMF
exposure which the power line specifications will create along the line
corridor. It also
permits prospective buyers to calculate the EMF before purchasing a home
near a
power line.

EMFCALC is about 50k and may be run from DOS or from the RUN command in
Windows3x, 95 or 98. There is no provision for a hard copy print out, but
this can be
had via the MARK and COPY function if one is using Windows95 or Windows 98.

For further information see the web site: http://www.ncf.ca/bridlewood-emfinfo



********************* Richard W. Woodley *********************       
woodley@igs.net *********** http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab190/       
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 Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service     
            http://www.ncf.ca/bridlewood-emfinfo/          



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