Study on RF and Genetic Damage

xeno wrote in to send us a wired article that talks about RF Genetic Damage. Its still a bit fuzzy. The scariest part is that the scary results of this test were actually funded by the cell phone industry. Interesting...

Comments

While microwave is not a worry..

[jonathanclark]

Actually microwave is about 2GHZ (~2.6 for microwave ovens), which is right below RF. Also microwave resonance is about the length of bird. Several environmental impact studies have been conducted on the effects of microwave on bird for this reason. Resonance cause them to heat up faster. When birds overheat in flight they drop their feet to cool off. By putting a bird in a wind tunnel and subjecting it to various levels of microwave, it was determined that power levels less than 50 mW/cm2 (I'm hope that is the right units!) had no effect on the birds. Microwave communication uses power level far less than this.

These studies did not access the potential of DNA breakage, just effects of heat. Because the length of a microwave is so long it would difficult for it effect DNA (which often results in cancerous growth). You should be much more worried about sunlight, which contains a fair amount of energy in ionizing spectrum. If you are then indoors type, sitting in front a monitor exposes you to x-rays which is also a bad spectrum to be exposed to. Even visible light is higher spectrum than microwave. There is no 100% effective way to avoid radiation induced cancer unless you live in a completely dark lead lined tank. Even then....


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