<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<DIV> <DIV>I don't want to start a discussion about health and building, there are in this field other forums that go deep in it for the ones interested. </DIV><DIV>I just like to be careful with such statements and the so called study's that claim to know the truth about a subject that is so new in history: wavelengths, radiation,.... the modern invisibles in all it forms.</DIV><DIV>Your statement about leukemia and high tension lines is even not proved and subject of speculation more, then studies that would take other facts as important, because the lines are the most obvious in the view of the eyes.</DIV><DIV>I think nobody likes to live under such things anyway!! ( ask any real estate agent )</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I will have a look though at your suggested sites, but I always try to keep an open mind and not go for mass fear in the style of Al Gore..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Avoiding bad substances and obvious health hazards is clearly a point. </DIV><DIV>To the point of geomancy, earth-radiation,.... is a decision within a personal believe-system simply resulting from what information that was chosen (or not) to read.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I just wanted to point out that many interested in strawbale building <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">also</SPAN> do this for other reasons than health. </SPAN></DIV><DIV>Beauty, craftsmanship and durability is my primary motivation.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wishing you all the luck "forfilling" your motivations,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michel Van Mulders, from Belgium.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On 4-apr-07, at 10:35, Kurt Splittdorf wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">I am sorry, but it just no true that there is no scientific proof.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">About microwaves there are many studies written, it is proofen that it has an effect on humans, and it is proofen that it is not haelthy.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">It is not about making fear, it is about to give the people the right information to protect them self.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">There is a study payed from the EU, just read it and think about it.... cant find a direct link for an english version...<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">the study is called REFLEX-Study you find it.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Think about all the shit they aleardy sold to there customers and still do. Telling them that there is no problem.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Asbestos, lead in the full, toxic paint for the sleeping room and many more.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">And it is always the same, the people dont belive it, use that stuff over and over, and at the end they say, oh we did not know. Those evil companys... We (the consumers) have the power, use it!!!</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">What does it help to have a strawbale house when you life underneath a high-tension line. It is proofen that it increases the rate of leukemia for children. That is why you must have a certain distance from those.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">What does it help if you have a nice earth celler in your house if you build in an area with a lot of radioactiv gas (radon)?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Buy nice littel toys for child, full with heavy metall and chemicals...<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">OK, i see, of course this is something diffrent.... no it is not, it is just the same. People belive more in geomancy than in physically measureable fields. We can protect our selfs, we just have to know it. And i am not talking about buying a sticker and put it on your cellphone and than you can talk without risk. This wont help!!!</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">The human body has developt in a natural enviromant. Our body is using electric impulses to communicat. Take a look at our brain and you see what i mean, but it is not only the brain...</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">The evolution had millons of years of time to adapt to the enviroment earth.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">We should try to keep the non natural influences in our house (bed room) on a minimum level.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">This is called </FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #000000">precautions against risks(Vorsorge) And there we should do as much as possible.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #000000">Kurt</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Especially when it comes to statements about magnetism and earth radiation, e-smog...and there is so much more for people that like to get into this field. ..</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">This is all without any scientific proof of relevance and many people get misled by pseudo-science that comes only from putting fear in our heads. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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