On 12/2/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As someone familiar with RF, I'd say that it isn't particularly good for a child to spend extended periods with a 100 mw microwave transmitter sitting on their lap.
What is the nature of the health risk here? Heating? Muta-genetic effects? (The latter are unproven but necessarily so, it would take a generation before any such effects would be statistically observable, so we are essentially a generation of guinea-pigs?) The wireless node itself, as with cellphone towers (assuming some
nominal distance from the cell tower...) wouldn't be much of a health threat.
A wireless LAN router puts out roughly the same power as a laptop, but there is no such symmetry between a cell phone and a cell tower. I do not have exact numbers but I believe towers transmit at multiple kilowatts. Not so clear that they are "not a health threat" especially if you happen to live/work close to a tower. But then TV and radio stations have been blasting away at much higher power levels for close to 100 years now, so probably the threat is overblown. -raghu.
