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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Tell me about electric blankets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.092120.20097@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 09:21:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.193548.13750@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- :
- : Your DC blanket will, of course, generate a magnetic field -- just not an
- : electric one. Whether or not this is better or worse from the health
- : standpoint is, as you point out, a good question.
-
- Bullshit. It will produce a DC electromagnet field. That field will build
- and collapse as the blanket thermostat cycles.
-
- Bill
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