Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcupt1!hprnd!hprmokg!barry From: barry@hprmokg.HP.COM (Barry Fowler) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Meeting on health effects of electric and magnetic fields Message-ID: <10040012@hprmokg.HP.COM> Date: 28 Jul 89 17:40:13 GMT References: <12870@well.UUCP> Organization: HP Networked Computer Mfg. Operation Lines: 11 But what about the electrical wires surrounding every building, commercial and residential, that we live in??? Our houses, for example have "Romex" (or equiv.) wire wrapped around nearly every room in them. If this premise were true, nearly everyone with electricity would be surrounded by "electrical wires producing electromagnetic fields", given that current is being conducted through the wires. 'Time to rip all of those "bad wires" out of every house and shut off the electricity?? :-)