13 Dec Dirty Electricity

Many years ago before the discovery of solid state devices now found in all electronic equipment, the electricity that powers our homes, buildings, and factories was like a meadow in the country, gently varying, quiet, harmonious and clean. Today our electricity is no longer harmonious, quiet, gently varying and clean. It is filled with abrupt changes in character described as dirty electricity or dirty power (technically, MicroSurge Electrical Pollution (MEP)). This dirt is much like noisy static you might hear on a radio playing wonderful classical music. The underlying music is there and it could be beautiful and relaxing, but all that static is too irritating, and you change the station or turn off the radio.

Unfortunately, with dirty electricity, turning it off is not possible. Dirty electricity is everywhere in our environment. You are generating this dirt in your very own house, as are your neighbors and the office down the block and the factory in the industrial part of town.

The dirt is produced by the workings of all of our electronic equipment like, computers, TVs, radios, microwaves, light dimmers, digital clocks and cell phone chargers, variable speed motors (pool motors and HVAC motors).

The dirt (MEP) follows the electrical lines around your house and out of your house following the wires that supply electricity to your house. The neighbor’s dirt and the office’s dirt, and the factory’s dirt follows the same paths and ends up in every house, office and factory. The dirty is also projected into space as electromagnetic waves by any MEP producing device. So if you are near a lamp with a CFL and older LED light bulb you are in this dirty energy field.

We have assumed in the past that this form of energy is not biologically active. However, recent research tells us that this dirty electricity is biologically active. When dirty electricity reduction filters were installed in homes and schools, symptoms such as chronic fatigue, depression, headaches, body aches and pains, ringing in the ears, dizziness, diabetes, impaired sleep, memory loss, and confusion were reduced. See below.

There are several manufactures of simple plug in filters– Stetzer and Greenwave.

Based on this research it is estimated that as much as 50% of the population may be sensitive to dirty electricity; children may be more sensitive than adults and dirty electricity in schools may be interfering with education and possibly contributing to disruptive behavior associated with attention deficit disorder (ADD); dirty electricity may elevate plasma glucose levels among diabetics, and exacerbate symptoms for those with multiple sclerosis and tinnitus.

Exposure Standards
Work in this area is in the early stages, however, measurements of MEP (dirty electricity) using special meters sensitive to MEP show the following:

Stetzer Meter Reading (GS units) 

• Less than 20 – Ideal
• 20 to 30 – Acceptable
• Over 30 – Unacceptable

Greenwave Meter Readings (mV)

• Less than 25 – Best
• more than 50 – Undesirable

The first thing to do is to remove as many MEP generating source from our house as possible. Replace CFL and older LED bulbs with ones that don’t produce MEP.  Replace a variable speed pool motor with fixed speed squirrel cage motor. For the remaining MEP producers you can’t or won’t remove, MEP filters can be installed in electrical outlets following the manufacturers protocol to clean up the dirty electricity from these remaining producing devices.  Filters should not be installed before the house is checked for wiring errors (electrical code violations) and errors found are fixed This is because the high magnetic fields associated with wiring errors. MEP filters will make the fields worse. Additionally,  MEP filters are often needed at the electrical service entrance to clean up the power being delivered to the house even with no MEP producing devices in the house.

Download Dirty Electricity Studies – PDF Format

Reduce Blood Sugar Levels in Diabetics, Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms, and Headaches
Graham/Stetzer filters significantly reduce radio frequency electrical noise on indoor wiring generated by computers, energy efficient lighting, dimmer switches, and entertainment units within the home or workplace and transported into buildings by power lines from neighbouring property. The resultant improvements in power quality in homes and in schools are associated with fewer and less severe headaches, more energy, lower blood sugar levels for diabetics, and improved balance for those with multiple sclerosis.

The health effects of electrical pollution
Americans are surrounded by electrical devices – computers , VCRs and a plethora of household gadgets and consumer appliances. There is also the assumption that the electricity (and associated electrical phenomena) are safely confined to the wires carrying electricity and to the electrical devices themselves.

Historical evidence that residential electrification caused the emergence of the childhood leukemia peak
A peak in childhood leukemia, ages two through four, emerged de novo in the 1920s in the United Kingdom and slightly later in the United States (US). Electrification in US farm and rural areas lagged behind urban areas until 1956. In recent years, childhood leukemia has been associated with residential electromagnetic fields.

Dirty Electricity and Electrical Hypersensitivity: Five Case Studies
Deteriorating power quality is becoming increasingly common in developed countries. Poor power quality, also known as dirty electricity, refers to a combination of harmonics and transients generated primarily by electronic devices and by non-linear loads. We have assumed, until recently, that this form of energy is not biologically active. However, when Graham/Stetzer™ filters were installed in homes and schools, symptoms associated with electrical hypersensitivity were reduced.