Parents advocate Wi-Fi ban despite evidence

Ottawa Citizen ^

[headsonpikes]

In B.C.’s West Kootenay, where I live, there is a well-organized campaign against cell-phone towers serving isolated communities, and also against wireless ‘smart meters’, which make the gathering of electricity consumption info cheaper and more useful.

But invisible radio waves are cooking our brains, apparently.

Public education is a wonderful thing.

[The_Media_never_lie]

School wiring eminates em waves.

[redgolum]

I am very aware of the black mold. It was all over the walls in old stone barns and such (mainly in the hog buildings). WW, you are correct that in the North, winter kills off a lot of the stuff.

Remember when hystoplasmosis was a big scare? My Dad's job sent him in to be tested, and they x rayed his lungs. The tech took one look at Dad's lungs and asked how long he was raising hogs!

Seems that if you have exposure at a young age, it doesn't affect you as bad. My local doctor laughed and said the same thing.

[RansomOttawa]

To how many watts of energy is someone exposed if they’re sitting, for example, 20 feet from a typical Wi-Fi router operating at 2.4 GHz?

And to how many watts are they exposed by standing in direct sunlight at noon hour?

If the power output of a Wi-Fi device is enough to make you sick, shouldn’t we expect more energetic visible light to be considerably more dangerous? Yet you never hear of someone bursting into flames because they went outside on a sunny day.

[Talisker]

To how many watts of energy is someone exposed if they’re sitting, for example, 20 feet from a typical Wi-Fi router operating at 2.4 GHz?

And to how many watts are they exposed by standing in direct sunlight at noon hour?

Yeah, because watts are the only relevent aspect of the energies involved, right?

Not, like, frequency or something else. Hey, if it don't give you suburn, what harm can it do, eh Bobby Joe Bob?

Sheesh.

[RansomOttawa]

Not, like, frequency or something else.

Microwaves have a frequency several orders of magnitude less than that of visible light (2 GHz for Wi-Fi as opposed to hundreds of terahertz for visible light) . . . let alone the really dangerous radiation like X-rays or gamma rays.

The same holds true for energy level: microwaves have a photon energy measured in thousandths or millionths of electron-volts, as compared to that of visible light which is a thousand times higher or more.

And yet, visible light is non-ionizing. It doesn't have enough energy to strip electrons from atoms and cause damage to tissue. So why should I expect radiation of a thousandth the energy level to do worse?

Hey, if it don't give you suburn, what harm can it do, eh Bobby Joe Bob?

Sunburn is caused by ultraviolet radiation, which is ionizing and capable of damaging tissue.

Sheesh yourself.