Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

Not to be critical, but a mobile phone is not a cell phone. My mobile phone
puts out 35 watts of power and you dont put it in your ear and talk to your
thumb.
   Robert  H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:00:45 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured
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 > Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:51:21 -0700
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 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
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 > 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
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 >> 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
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 >> 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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