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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Tell me about electric blankets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.091907.20005@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:19:07 GMT
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- teds@symbiosis.ahp.com (Ted Slack) writes:
- :
- : >What's the latest report on EM fields and your health, especially with
- : >respect to electric blankets?
- :
- : I too, have wondered about this. I suppose that an enterprising person
- : could make a box that would operate an electric blanket from Direct Current.
- : No AC EM field would be generated, just DC. The blankets I've seen
- : would work fine on DC, but perhaps not all of them.
- : Perhaps using DC only for some parts of a home would be beneficial.
- : Whether there would be any health benefits or not, I don't know.
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- So, what advantage would there be in a DC EM field over an AC EM field?
-
- Bill
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