"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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DeserTBoB wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:00:02 -0500, "TimPerry"
wrote:

makes me wonder is there mght be a market for MU metal jumpsuits. snip

Not too many years ago, ABC actually had all their wire run ducts
coated with mu metal to allay any fears about "electromagnetic
radiation" illnesses! This was at the Talmadge and Prospect studios.
The contractor, a personal friend of mine, laughed all the way to the
bank, but the dunderheaded ABC brass were QUITE serious! Mind you,
the hottest thing in those ducts was 480. LOL!

Given the number of lawsuits out there, this might have been a good idea.
You wouldn't believe some of the bizarre suits out there from folks
claiming
damage due to electromagnetic radiation. It's at the point where OSHA has
now made guidelines for RF exposure, in the absence of any actual physical
data. If a few tens of thousands of dollars of overpriced conduit keeps
away a million-dollar lawsuit, it's a good investment even if it really
does
nothing.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, note that the plantiff has spent
20-30x more of his lifetime in private dwellings where all the
power wiring is completely unshielded. I submit that the defendant's
ordinary thin steel conduit is vastly superior in terms of both
electrostatic and electromagnetic shielding to anything the plantif
has in any of the places he had lived during his lifetime.