Living next to a solar farm - concerns?
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EMFs are real. To demonstrate, you can stand under transmission lines at night with a flourescent tube and see the glow in the tube. The important question is how far is safe because the EMFs fall off with distance. As @sdold mentioned above there is a safe level.Last edited by Ampster; 09-26-2019, 12:41 PM. -
What's your concern with the EMFs? Radio interference or safety? I measure EMF levels as part of my job for RF safety compliance, and have found that EMF near solar arrays is nearly nonexistent in terms of unsafe levels. The only concern I'd have near a massive solar array is radio interference, which would depend on the equipment (inverters) and the bands to be used.Something noisy up to 100 MHz might not be a problem above that, you just need to check that particular site with a receiver. Future equipment upgrades could make the radio interference better or worse, so I'd avoid one since I'm a ham radio operator.Last edited by sdold; 09-26-2019, 12:28 PM.Leave a comment:
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Living next to a solar farm - concerns?
Hi, I posted this question shortly before this site was attacked and the post has been scrubbed.
So thanks to those who replied, but your wisdom is now lost.
We're interested in a buying a house, now we find out there will be a 10 acre solar panel farm right beside it.
- Our main concern is dirty voltage and EMFs. Someone replied that the 3-phase inverters had less powerful EMFs. So that's good, but what about from the panels themselves?
- What is the track record on panels leaching arsenic and other chemicals? The water supply is from a groundwater well.
- I know the cooling fans might be noisy, but maybe they'll be far enough away.
- Anything else you think I should know about, or link to where this topic has already been discussed would be great. Thanks!
I briefly read some replies that my email notified me about, but I did not have time to read the responses on this site before the cyber attack, so I'm re-posting the question. Thanks for your patience.
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