In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:45:21 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Along the same lines, the letters to the editor in a recent edition of >the Sci. Am. included several critiques of the assertion that cell >phones cause no harm because the radiation is not strong enough to break >chemical bonds. Some people wrote to say the same thing we said here: >the heat alone may be a problem. The author responded by evading the >issue and restating the obvious.
Concentrated radio waves, even of low frequency, are more than capable of breaking chemical bonds if they accelerate free charged particles such as electrons. This is the principle used in ion sources to create massive quantities of ions, which surely constitute chemical energy. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
