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Packed house hears “stray voltage” concerns An information evening at dinner at Covenant Christian School last month generated a large crowd looking for more information on stray voltage and industrial wind turbines. The keynote speaker was David Stetzer, an electrician with 30 years experience. Stetzer specializes in power control in industry, municipalities, and motor control centers. For the last decade, he has focused his attention on power quality analysis and troubleshooting. He is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers), an expert witness in litigation suits in ground currents and power quality, coauthor of peer reviewed papers in journals as well as a producer of the documentary ‘Beyond Coincidence: The Perils of Electrical Pollution’. Stetzer attributes much of the dirty electricity – frequently referred to as ‘stray voltage’ that exists in Ontario - to the overloading of the single return wire in our power supply. Eighty percent of the power that returns to the substation is “dumped” onto the ground. We do not see, hear, feel, taste or smell electromagnetic
energy. Yet the proliferation of electrical pollution creates problems for people who have a biological reaction to the poor power quality that is generated by industrial wind turbines, power transmission lines and distribution lines, he said. Any power generator in Ontario has an obligation to transmit ‘clean power’. Using an oscilloscope, it is possible to measure the pure sine wave of clean power and determine what harmonics, transients or intermediate frequencies which produce poor power quality or ‘dirty electricity’ are also present. Tuned filters at the site of power generation prevent some of the distortion. But according to Stetzer the best solutions are to enforce current and existing codes and standards like the IEE519. Stop using the earth as a return circuit for the neutral current, by increasing the size of the utility’s Primary Neutral or utilize a 5-wire system to accommodate power returning to the sub-station, he said. Much of Stetzer’s work has been done with dairy cows to identify causes of decreased milk production, poor production costs time, money and health. As
one member of the audience pointed out – industrial wind turbines are an intermittent power generator and only produce 28 per cent of the name-plate capacity. The second speaker was Carmen Krogh. She shared her preliminary research on why people in communities with industrial wind turbine generators leave their homes. Based on preliminary results, sleep disturbance appears to be the most common rea-
son people vacate. Other symptoms included: sensations such as pressure in the ears, chest, head, heart, bladder: ear problems such as tinnitus, burning, popping in ears; heart palpitations such as racing heart, increased blood pressure; headaches such as, migraines, stomach aches; nausea, vomiting, dizzy, vertigo; nose bleeds, skin infections, stress, anxiety, extreme agitation/ irritability, depression, cognitive, loss of concentration, and a sense of panic.
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