Renting an apartment right next to a power transformer station

You, the OP, should also not buy/use a microwave oven.

No s#&÷,the controlling husband of my wife’s friend forbids a microwave for … reasons.

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A friend of my wife’s was paranoid about the “radiation” from cell phones, and was adamant that if you used two mobile devices at the same time, one held to each ear, the overlap from the two devices would cook your brain between them.

I offered to demonstrate and she got a panicked look on her face and my wife made me stop.

People just do not understand this stuff.

I knew someone who said that you could pop popcorn with cellphone “radiation” by arranging 8 cell phones around a bowl of unpopped kernels. For some reason he never demonstrated this effect though.

God. And I thought the microwave pop corn was bad ju ju.

If 8 cel phones in a circle creates radiation I guess I’ll need protective gear and a foil hat to enter my living room.

Oh, oh. I’ll get Jiffy Pop and save the foil. Yep. Got it handled. :saluting_face:

No it isn’t. @Velocity asked “At what point does the EMF or whatever-other-radiation decay sufficiently to pose no risk? 500 feet?”

Not “should I move into this apartment” or “if I’m nervous about counter factual scenarios should I do something that makes me nervous”. This is FQ. Not IMHO, or MPSIMS or facebook.

The correct FQ answer is “it poses no known risk at any distance likely to be relevant to you”.

2nd post.
Correct answer.

For sure. But to the extent that your answer is a criticism of my post: you’d be absolutely right in being critical, if there was no history, ever, of FQ conversations moving from science-y stuff to more conversational, realistic answers that took into account what posters know about the OP’s concerns and attitudes.

My personal experience, which may not match yours, is that FQ conversations are enhanced by understanding of nuances that go beyond the purely science fact stuff - once those purely science fact stuff answers are given. Which, in this case, they had been.

I will also back up @CairoCarol here around post #50.

It is factual that substation EMF is harmless at any distance a civilian could get to. It is factual that the OP has a long admitted history of major anxiety over multiple imaginary environmental concerns. It is therefore (highly likely to be) factual that the OP will suffer EMF-based anxiety if they move there and won’t if they don’t.

Any statement about the future that is not about pure physics / chemistry / etc. is necessarily a prediction with error bars and probabilities associated with it. It’s factual that sharks can and do eat or at least severely bite people. It’s factual they occasionally do it off the beach here where I am. But it’s a prediction as to whether it’s safe enough to go to our beaches tomorrow.