Physiological effects of magnetic fields

[DaevM]

Think I know why they're so insistent on assists being activated by default.
You might think your reaction times are better or more accurate now, but give it a few thousand miles ( and don't sit in the vehicle whilst charging ) ?
- mostly tongue in cheek but has anyone spotted a speeding up of the onset of dementia or any such thing since getting their EV ?

One of many studies:

Effect of Static Magnetic Field of Electric Vehicles on Driving Performance and on Neuro-Psychological Cognitive Functions

Human neuropsychological reactions and brain activities when driving electric vehicles (EVs) are considered as an issue for traffic and public safety purposes; this paper examined the effect of the static magnetic field (SMF) derived from EVs. A lane ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[maskull]

I can't remember any

 

[DaevM]

I can't remeber any

Sorry, who are you and what are you doing in my bedroom? ?

 

[maskull]

Sorry, who are you and what are you doing in my bedroom? ?

Or , as George Carlin would say , Who are you people and where's my horse

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

"demonstrating that there is no considerable impact of SMFs to human brain activities during driving"

I'm not worried.

(Worried enough to bloody read it though!!)

As per, the tests are not long enough in duration or time to pick up any effects worth mentioning.

If you consider the amount of waves that pass through your body 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, radio waves, phone signals, TV, blah, blah, blah..... if they were in any way harmful, it would be a surprise if we could function at all.

The little murdering phone, just a foot or two away from your head at all times.

My phone is never more than a few feet away from me and I have a terrible habit of looking at it, and the TV at the same time.

It's like an addiction.

Probably just another thing not to worry about?

 

[JimD]

Better scrap every MRI machine, high power electrical appliance and ban power station staff from going near the generators or conductors then. Also, machinists had better not be allowed to operate their machines when they have to get so close to the powerful 3 phase electric motors.

What an utter load of bollocks!

 

[decrep]

I worked for a while in a broadcast radio station, you could hold a fluorescent tube in one hand and it would light up purely with the background radiation. And look at me now haaaa hhhaaaaaa

 

[Archev]

I worked for a while in a broadcast radio station, you could hold a fluorescent tube in one hand and it would light up purely with the background radiation. And look at me now haaaa hhhaaaaaa

Come back when you can charge the car and the job’s yours ??

 

[gazza487]

Better scrap every MRI machine, high power electrical appliance and ban power station staff from going near the generators or conductors then. Also, machinists had better not be allowed to operate their machines when they have to get so close to the powerful 3 phase electric motors.

What an utter load of bollocks!

In a former life during my degree I wrote some routines to process the data out of scanners. I got a scan for giggles in a 7T unit, when being pushed in to something that strong you can go a little dizzy and the professor who was zapping me said it made her throat tickle and that she should probably note it and research it.

Zero worries about it and with a car erm you are inside a big metal cage motors outside of that so even less to worry about with RF. As for magnetic it’s an inverse square law from what you feel. Go throw a chair in one of those monster fields and note at what point it gets snatched from your hands - just saying.

 

[DaevM]

Better scrap every MRI machine, high power electrical appliance and ban power station staff from going near the generators or conductors then. Also, machinists had better not be allowed to operate their machines when they have to get so close to the powerful 3 phase electric motors.

What an utter load of bollocks!

I see bollocks isn't in the naughty list ?.
You do realise that we only exist thanks to being an electromagnetic field, right?

How The Human Body Creates Electromagnetic Fields

Is it possible for the human body to create an electromagnetic field? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jack Fraser.

www.forbes.com

Quote from the article:-
'Not only is it possible that the human body creates EM fields — it is the only way you can possibly exist as a coherent entity!'

As I stated, I was presenting my original post as mostly tongue in cheek but, as you came in so hot....
There's another study about complex emf on public transport which is interesting. Each component, EV, phones, routers etcetc are individually catered for legislation-wise, but throw them all on ( under?) the same (electric) bus and "more research is required".

I can't find it now but will keep looking but several years ago came across a report of a lady who was suffering with multiple symptoms of varying and seemingly unconnected nature. It took them years to work out what was going on and diagnose it correctly. It transpired she had had a mild bump to the head, which had knocked her electric field out of sync, leading to all kinds of random symptoms.
We are extraordinarily complex and finely balanced organisms. It would be wise not to so readily dismiss the potential impact of extraneous emf on the human system, I would respectfully suggest
Or, as you say, what utter bollocks ??

 

[Archev]

Dunno about emf but I could use some ooomf.

 

[Alb]

This is a real thing but unlikely to be an issue in a car.
See some of the HSE guidance here:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg281.pdf

 

[Gadget Geek]

Let's hope the Daily Fail don't get hold of this paper. They will quote the title and ignore the conclusion, thus creating more FUD.

 

[Archev]

This is a real thing but unlikely to be an issue in a car.
See some of the HSE guidance here:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg281.pdf

In the olden days long long ago before you could hold a mobile phone to your lugs and even before pagers were common (in other words when the office hadn’t a clue where you were ?)
I had to fix the tea making machines in the Aluminium smelter at Corpach, Fort William.
To get to the machines I had to remove my watch as I was assured it would stop when walking past the actual smelter.

 

[Alb]

Back in my working days as an electrical engineer I did encounter restrictions based on EM field strength but this would typically take the form of a maximum loiter time within a designated area.

 

[JimD]

You'd need some seriously strong magnets for the stray field around it to be any risk at all.

If you were right inside an electromagnet it may be a problem depending on its strength (though with MRI machines you literally ARE right inside the magnet and they can easily be 1.5 Tesla just for the polarising field).

 

[siteguru]

You do realise that we only exist thanks to being an electromagnetic field, right?

The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat

#Morpheus

 

[DaevM]

This is a real thing but unlikely to be an issue in a car.
See some of the HSE guidance here:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg281.pdf

Love the fact the military are excluded ?.... or any civilian working with them ?

 

[Gadget Geek]

With MRI, the issues were with the fluctuating gradient fields, which induce eddy currents in the body, producing heat, and in some circumstances nerve stimulation. As long as you pass the safety checks, the static field wasn't a problem.

 

[Anon70]

Why did no one have an issue when you had an 8 track in the car dashboard, all those magnetic fields from a strip of tape generating vibrations in the magnetic coils in the speakers.

Microwave ovens
Induction hobs
Mag lev railways
Induction motors in washing machines

Every time they find another use for electromagnetic waves it is an issue.