Thanks for the insight on the charged particle theory - it sounds a helluva lot more plausible to me than the field theory about getting sick around power lines.

If ANYONE gets sick from fields, I should have been among the first in line. I have been playing with RF, high voltage, and magnetism since I was in elementary school. Neither me, nor any of the like-minded friends that have the same affliction for this kind of technology have noted any increased likelihood of our demise from messing around with our toys, albeit we have all definitely noted our type do not attract women, nor do we develop the kind of "people skills" required to stay employed in a corporate environment. But then, we are not trying all that hard to be richer than everyone else or reproduce. Physics, not politics, is the "video game" of addiction for me.

I saw how fast I could clear a room of tobacco smoke using nothing more than a few parts I scrounged from an old TV. I noted how fast I could make all the cigarette smoke in the room head for some tinfoil suspended from the ceiling suspended from fishing line. It cleaned the air but made a really sticky mess on the tinfoil. All it took was a few -5KV emitters and one big +20KV "attractor".

If some old TV flybacks barely loaded would clear a room like that, I could just imagine using power lines for emitters, and placing a few "attractors" where I wanted the majority of the airborne gooey stuff to go.

Steve