Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>



You have to look at the power output and distance from the source.  Power
drops off by the inverse square of the distance (hope i worded that right)
so power levels drop off considerably even if you got 1 foot from a source.
The output of a cell phone maybe be very small in comparison to a tesla coil
or leakage from a microwave oven, but this small source is very close to
your head so the amount of radiation you are receiving from it is much
greater than from a tesla coil or microwave or what have you which may be a
few feet away.  Whether this radiation is harmful is still heavily debated
and i'm not sure if there is a direct correlation between cell phone use and
brain cancer yet.

However, my money is on the fact that is probably is causing cancer in the
long run.  Only time will tell.

The Captain



 > 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!)
 >
 > Furthermore power from a mobile phone couldn't be more  than a watt
 > whereas tesla coil depends on input power maybe few tens or hundreds of
 > watts for a mini-coil  to several tens or hundred of kilowatts for
something
 > like Electrum
 > and the output most microwave ovens is somewhere between several hundred
 > watts
 > and a few kilowatts.
 >
 > While it is considered that watt for watt microwaves are more dangerous
than
 > radio or lower frequency electromagnetic radiation
 > is it not necessary to consider power of a microwave source when assessing
 > the perceived risk?
 > For instance would it not be possible for a low frequency, high power
radio
 > source and a high frequency, low power radio source (e.g a mobile phone)
to
 > be equally dangerous?
 >
 > 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
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 7:50 PM
 > Subject: RE: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > I'm pretty concerned about my 2.4Ghz cordless phone being held next
 >  > to my brain for hours a day. It, like SSTC's, has to do SOMETHING.
 >  >
 >  >  >>Yes, especially since 2.4Ghz is close to what your microwave oven
 >  > operates!!!!
 >  >
 >  > The Captain
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