What is the safe distance to live from a high voltage electric tower? I read that electromagnetic waves can reach up to 200 meters.

What is the safe distance to live from a high voltage electric tower? I read that electromagnetic waves can reach up to 200 meters.

"Do me a favor: Go outside, look up at the sky and if it's daytime and if there aren't any clouds, you'll see a large yellow hot thing. Don't stare at it for too long as it can damage your vision. That's called the Sun and it emits far more low-level electromagnetic radiation in a single day than you'll ever receive in a lifetime living near powerlines. If you are not concerned about the Sun and its myriads effects upon you and your health in general, I wouldn't worry too much, if at all, about living near high voltage lines."

May 23, 2018 Morning

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Six weeks to Independence Day 🇺🇸. Mostly cloudy and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. β›… There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 55 degrees. Not a terrible morning but the clouds aren’t pushing out too quickly.

I was going to walk down to the express bus but I didn’t get an early enough start. 🚌 The local is fine. Ended up fixing the Arduino Nano I had essentially bricked last with some bad code to pick a number in a range based on the time.β™’ Those microprocessors may only be $2.50 a piece but I hate to waste otherwise good electronics.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 56 at 9am. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1964.

The sun will set at 8:19 pm with dusk around 8:52 pm, which is 57 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies and 70 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌞 , with a low of 52 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 51 at 6pm. Northwest wind 5 to 13 mph. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

So I’m still finalizing my long weekend plans but for now it looks like I’m heading up to the Southern Adirondacks, maybe to hike back to Wilcox Lake one day and do some fishing in Wells🎣. But that is still subject to change. Saturday looks great, the second half of the week not so much. Busy time of the year at work, so I doubt I’ll be able to get out of the office before five.β›Ί Vermont is great but I’m bored with spending Memorial Day Weekend there. I like to mix things up.

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until Independence Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:10 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 82 and 56 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 104 back in 1911. Hottest day ever recorded in Albany or so I’m told.

The Coming Collapse

The Coming Collapse

"The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny. The problem is not Trump. It is a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. We will wrest back political control by dismantling the corporate state, and this means massive and sustained civil disobedience, like that demonstrated by teachers around the country this year. If we do not stand up we will enter a new dark age."

"The Democratic Party, which helped build our system of inverted totalitarianism, is once again held up by many on the left as the savior. Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. It is deaf, dumb and blind to the very real economic suffering that plagues over half the country. It will not fight to pay workers a living wage. It will not defy the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to provide Medicare for all. It will not curb the voracious appetite of the military that is disemboweling the country and promoting the prosecution of futile and costly foreign wars. It will not restore our lost civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom from government surveillance, and due process. It will not get corporate and dark money out of politics. It will not demilitarize our police and reform a prison system that has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population. It plays to the margins, especially in election seasons, refusing to address substantive political and social problems and instead focusing on narrow cultural issues like gay rights, abortion and gun control in our peculiar species of anti-politics."

"This is a doomed tactic, but one that is understandable. The leadership of the party, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Tom Perez, are creations of corporate America. In an open and democratic political process, one not dominated by party elites and corporate money, these people would not hold political power. They know this. They would rather implode the entire system than give up their positions of privilege. And that, I fear, is what will happen. The idea that the Democratic Party is in any way a bulwark against despotism defies the last three decades of its political activity. It is the guarantor of despotism."