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Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured
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
>> ----- 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>
>>>
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>>> 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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