Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Paul Marshall by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Captain,
 >    About two years ago 60 Min came out with an article that tied cell phone
 > use to brain tumors. In addition to that many Police officers who ran radar
 > regularly had a very high incidence of brain tumors. It's all been linked
 > to microwave radiation.
 >
 > Paul S. Marshall

	A few words on these subjects, which might frighten beginners away from
playing with TC's. (That's what we all do, isn't it?) There have been
lots of studies and simulations reported in the engineering journals on
the possible effects of radiation from cell phones on human tissue.  As
far as anyone has ever been able to tell, any possible effects are
entirely thermal (microwave-oven heating).  Someone reported a measured
level of 2 mW/cm2 in the vicinity of the antenna.  The effect of
exposure to direct sunlight is more like 50 mW/cm2 wherever flesh is
exposed, and I don't remember hearing of reports of brain tumors related
to exposure to the sun.

	As for the reports of police officers and radar speed guns, the cancers
reported have been variously listed as brain tumors, testicular tumors,
cancer of the toenails, etc.  Note that those guys sit or stand BEHIND
the antenna, not in front of it, and that the energy density directly at
the antenna is only of the order of 1 mW/cm2.

	Believe what you want, but please don't take 60 minutes as a source of
scientific information.

Ed