Just trying to think for yourself here. A microwave requires hundreds of watts, usually 800 or more, to cook effectively. It produces heat to denature proteins and cook meat. Radio towers, thanks to the inverse square law, will introduce far far less than what is necessary to heat anything up even one degree at all operating distances.
Can you sleep under a cell tower for years without any adverse effects? This is focusing the power of a small cell tower to a much smaller area. I don't think you need 800 watts to damage cells. Would you be comfortable sleeping in a 20 watt microwave? Sure, you may not feel anything, but over years what would the effects be? Would it not still cook the food but just much slower?
The 100 watt or so towers radiate inn all directions so even up close you're likely only seeing a watt or less. You're likely receiving more just living in your house, or driving down the street.
The new 5g towers are MIMO so they can focus on a single area such as a person if it is designed to do so.
We are yet to understand what the long term effects of placing one of these towers on every street (although supposably at a lower power) and focusing all the power in a smaller area are. Thats not even to mention what longterm exposure of 100ghz waves do at any power level. Its a fact that rats receive cancer from this wavelength even at the max "safe" power level.
It's not that simple. Biological systems do not appear to have a linear response to EM radiation. In fact some research has shown higher exposure can induce something similar to a protection response, while lower exposure can produce worse effects due to the missed protection response.
Also the microwave analogy has another problem, in that it relies solely on the heating effect, while biological effects have been observed outside this heating response. I.e. there also exists other mechanisms besides heating, that can produce biological effects.
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BlueDrache ago
Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! non-ionizing radiation is harmful!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
Um ... no ... it's not?
Rajadog20 ago
You do realize that 5g waves have a much higher frequency and thus more energy than wavelengths, right? Is a microwave dangerous??
It's all about the frequency of the waves used and how many waves are focused on a small area.
Older teach is less dangerous because it isn't such high energy focused on a small area
Tb0n3 ago
How many watts is a microwave oven again?
Rajadog20 ago
Tb0n3 ago
Just trying to think for yourself here. A microwave requires hundreds of watts, usually 800 or more, to cook effectively. It produces heat to denature proteins and cook meat. Radio towers, thanks to the inverse square law, will introduce far far less than what is necessary to heat anything up even one degree at all operating distances.
Rajadog20 ago
How many watts do you think cell towers are?
Can you sleep under a cell tower for years without any adverse effects? This is focusing the power of a small cell tower to a much smaller area. I don't think you need 800 watts to damage cells. Would you be comfortable sleeping in a 20 watt microwave? Sure, you may not feel anything, but over years what would the effects be? Would it not still cook the food but just much slower?
Tb0n3 ago
The 100 watt or so towers radiate inn all directions so even up close you're likely only seeing a watt or less. You're likely receiving more just living in your house, or driving down the street.
Rajadog20 ago
Yes, at the moment.
The new 5g towers are MIMO so they can focus on a single area such as a person if it is designed to do so.
We are yet to understand what the long term effects of placing one of these towers on every street (although supposably at a lower power) and focusing all the power in a smaller area are. Thats not even to mention what longterm exposure of 100ghz waves do at any power level. Its a fact that rats receive cancer from this wavelength even at the max "safe" power level.
Tb0n3 ago
The better the focus, the less power needed.
Rajadog20 ago
No because you will have a higher wave intensity
Tb0n3 ago
More energetic waves would contain the same power as input. Same at 100W as a lower frequency, just lower penetration.
qwop ago
It's not that simple. Biological systems do not appear to have a linear response to EM radiation. In fact some research has shown higher exposure can induce something similar to a protection response, while lower exposure can produce worse effects due to the missed protection response.
Also the microwave analogy has another problem, in that it relies solely on the heating effect, while biological effects have been observed outside this heating response. I.e. there also exists other mechanisms besides heating, that can produce biological effects.