Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured

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Original poster: "Mark Broker by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>

The radiated power of cordless and cellular phones is hardly enough to 
become concerned about, except perhaps by the scam artists - err, 
"enteprenuers" - trying to sell the gullible, reactionary mass public "RF 
blockers" for their phones. . . .

Here's an interesting piece of triva: the potassium from eating one bannana 
a day for a year will cause a higher absorbed doses than the maximum 
recommended value for a "normal" human.  One of my physics prof's worked 
out the math once.  I don't know about you, but I'll continue eating bannanas.

Regards,

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group




On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:23:21 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>Isn't power of a mobile phone miniscule in comparison to that of a tesla
>coil or a microwave oven.
>I mean it's not as if you can draw sparks or light a flourescent tube or
>even an NE-2 neon bulb from a mobile phone as far I know (although perhaps
>someone should check that out just in case I'm wrong!)

<snip>

>Many people associate microwaves with radioactivity despite the fact that
>they are unconnected in same way that they equate "radiation" with "nuclear
>radiation" from H-bombs and Chernobyl
>and more recently "electromagnetic radiation" with  a wide range of
>ill-defined health problems caused by power lines and radars
>despite the fact that the term electromagnetic radiation in fact refers to
>everything in the spectrum from radio waves through heat and light to
>gamma-rays.
>Isn't it just a bit silly to be running in blind terror from  nasty words
>like "microwaves" and "radiation" without stopping for a moment to check out
>what these words really mean?
>
>
>Jolyon