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November 07, 2003

Wifi Dangers explained

My readers are so much better at reserach than I am.
This is a comment from Chris to my post on the Dangers of Wifi


With a quick google search you can find plenty of examples of the EM spectrum. Visiable light is rugffly 10 to the 15th Hz... as appozed to the 10 to the 9th hertz. InfaRed is 10 to the 12th. Why is this important? Well, as anyone who didn't sleep through High School Physics knows, as the frequency increases, so does the energy. WiFi signals are less energetic then the energy coming out of your TV remote. I'd love to see a class action suit against TV Remotes.Even more to the point, we're constantly bombarded by visible light, which anyone who's recieved a sunburn knows is much more energetic.

There are tons of evidence that proves that radiowaves at these frequencies cannot interact with Human DNA, or even effect Humans at all. No, this research wasn't swayed by 'Wi-Fi' enthusiasts, because these testsn were performed simply about radio waves, not Wi-Fi.

Read his whole comment for more.

Update:
Michael doesn't agree with Chris.


Chris' analysis is flawed. Power is not measured by the frequency. His analysis completly leaves out the wattage and the particular affects caused by different frequencies. Now, I don't believe that WiFi or cellphones cause cancer, but in all fairness I feel I should point out a few things.

Your Microwave Oven operates at about 2.5Gz. This is very close to the frequencies that WiFi operats at. The thing to notice is that a Microwave oven also operates at about 1000 watts compared to the sub 1 watt power levels of most WiFi equipment. That's a lot of power. So why might someone think a low power WiFi base station cause problems?

There's a funny thing that happens at around 2.5 Gz, which is the radio waves are absorbed by water, fats and sugars. This makes this frequency ideal for cooking. The question becomes, do the operating frequencies of 2.4Gz WiFi equipment have this same property.

This is consistent with a recent conversation I had with an Intel employee where he stated that 2.4 gz is absorbed by water or at least somewhat blocked.

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