How not to 🔌 hardwire our home
What is EOP / ethernet-over-power?
Here’s what we’ll learn in this article:
1. Why are wired communications even more toxic than wireless?
2. Who is Samuel Milham?
3. How do ethernet devices emit dirty electricity?
4. Five ways we can reduce dirty electricity in our home
When we take shortcuts in today’s concrete technocratic jungle, we can often wind up hurling ourselves off the nearest waterfalls of Amazon. Many readers and clients approach us with questions and new solutions constantly to remediate EMF. Some work, but many often do more harm than good.
When we started our journey down the radiation rabbit hole, we were initially concerned with the rise of wireless cellular communications. We didn’t know much about other concepts like electromagnetic interference (EMI) from electrical wiring, which can actually turn our homes into a cell tower. However many today are doing just that - since strong electric fields, when paired with EMI, can create a synergy of wireless radiation.
What are Power Line Communications (PLC)?
Some of us may be lucky enough to still have an analog electric meter, which is a true work of art, using technology that was invented over one hundred years ago. Since analog meters are electromechanical, they aren’t computerized, and also only emit a magnetic field - not electric fields nor RF.
If you have a smart meter, chances are it is transmitting data one of two ways:
RF - Radiofrequency (wireless) transmission
PLC - Power Line Communications (wired)
While many of us may think that having a wired PLC meter is preferred, what most of us don’t know is that this type of meter will create a toxic soup of frequencies in our entire home, or electromagnetic interference (EMI), otherwise known as dirty electricity.
How does this happen?
PLC couples another frequency onto our existing home wiring. This coupling is achieved with the introduction of a carrier wave, which rides on top of the existing 60 Hz wiring (sine wave), resulting in what is known as amplitude modulation:
This coupling creates small surges, or microsurges, by chopping up the 60 Hz signal into more rapid frequencies in multiples of 60: 60, 120, 180, 240. These multiples are called harmonics in electricity (think higher octaves of the same note or key being played on a piano)
Sound genius, right?
Yes, if we didn’t have our health, and our biosphere, to consider.
kilohertz: a frequency thats kills and hurts
These harmonics eventually lead into the kilohertz range, which is particularly harmful. Frequencies from 4 khz to 100 khz (100,000 Hz) are biologically-active, meaning they can penetrate deep into our bodies and wreak havoc.
What does this do to our bodies?
Samuel Milham, M.D. is an epidemiologist, or a scientist who proves that the results obtained by other labs and researchers actually happen to the masses of people in the real world. He studied historical US mortality and electrification data of the 1930s and 40s.
Milham was astonished as he found that the data suggested many of our modern diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and suicide are caused by electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure via dirty electricity.1 2 Milham would go on to literally write the book on Dirty Electricity.
Dirty electricity (EMI) was shown to be a potent universal carcinogen in a study of cancer in teachers at a La Quinta, California, middle school. A single year of employment at the La Quinta school increased cancer incidence by 21%.3
How do Ethernet-over-power devices emit EMI?
There are a plethora of sources that can contribute to EMI. I recently came across a potential solution for hardwiring internet, that also uses our electrical wiring to provide devices with a data signal. However thanks to colleague and EMF consultant Paul Harding of Total EMF Solutions, I’ve stopped advising clients to use this device. Paul has studied this device extensively with an industrial EMF Fluke meter, and found that these adapters emit extreme levels of EMI.
Ethernet over Power demo:
As with PLC smart meters, this technology also uses existing electrical wires to transfer data. Basically you plug an ethernet cable into the cable modem, and then connect a cable to an EOP adapter, which transmits the data signal to any other adapter you plug into a room that needs a hard wire.
If we use Internet via Powerline, we’re installing an internal network of permanent, high-frequency radiation transmitters. Each electrical wire in the building is turned into a radio transmitter due to the high-frequency transmission going through it.
Instead of distancing ourselves from RF, we’re effectively installing a cell tower inside our home. To make matters worse, residential electrical wiring isn’t typically shielded, or clad in metal, like the wiring in commercial buildings. This can cause electrical currents to flow out even further into our living space.
4 ways we can reduce dirty electricity in our environment:
1 - Don’t bring devices that emit EMI into our homes. There are a plethora of sources that can contribute to EMI, including solar power inverters.
2 - In our home, I’ve installed Stetzer filters, which have been extensively applied for decades by industrial users and the electric utility industry itself.
3- Call your internet service provider (ISP), and ask them what cable modems you can purchase outright, that are compatible. We bought a Hitron docsis 3.1 modem six years ago, and saved not only a ton on rental fees, but know that this modem doesn’t emit Wi-Fi.
When you do buy a modem, try to get one like the Arris Surfboard that only uses data speeds of Mbps (megabytes) vs Gbps (gigabytes) per second, as the latter will create more EMI due to it higher speed of data transfer. The Arris won’t work with AT&T or Verizon, but will integrate with Comcast, Charter, Cox and most regional providers.
If you have fiber optic internet service to your home, you want to confirm that you can disable the Wi-Fi on the fiber modem (ONT) that your company provides. You can’t purchase your own modem with fiber optic service.
4- We also ran shielded cat 7 ethernet cables through our home. The install wasn’t pretty, but we were able to find cables with a flat, low-profile that we could run along the baseboards. This method of wiring may not look clean, but it doesn’t play dirty tricks on us.
We are more powerful than we know,
Roman & Bohdanna
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Additional Resources:
Reynolds P, Elkin EP, Layefsky ME, Lee JM. Cancer in California school employees. Am J Ind Med 1999;36:271–8
Milham S, Ossiander EM. Historical evidence that residential electrification caused the emergence of the childhood leukemia peak. Med Hypotheses 2001;56(3):290–5.
Milham S, Morgan LL. A new electromagnetic field exposure metric: high frequency voltage transients associated with increased cancer incidence in teachers in a California school. Am J Ind Med 2008;51(8):579–86
For those that have analog meters, how does your electric company read them? Do they actually send out a human meter reader?
And thank you for bringing Samuel Milham, M.D. to a Zoom meeting. I'll be there!
WOW 😳
Great article and thank you for the information.
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