[Ti] Laptop Health Warning!

[Colin McDonald]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is getting a bit silly?

It started with an amusing tale about someone grilling their gonads
with a G4.

(Actually we don't know that - I only said it for the alliteration.)

C McD

on 23/11/02 23:23, luke at etyrnal at ameritech.net wrote:

> 
> On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:54  PM, Bob Jacobsen wrote:
> 
>> So let's be quantitative about "much".  The induced potentials of the
>> maximum RF power density allowed by regulation (which is much larger
>> than typical doses, including when transmitting antennae are placed
>> against the head or lap) is more than a factor of 100,000 smaller than
>> typical cellular potentials,
> 
> cellular potentials being RF inside of cells?  Do normal healthy human
> cells generally emit or naturally contain RF?  It seems like you are
> saying that cells somehow generate / broadcast RF GREATER than that of
> the cellphone... ??  Potential?
> 
>> and more than a factor of 500 smaller than the fluctuations in those
>> potentials due to living at room temperature.
> 
> does room temperature create a state wherein RF is less stable?  The
> potential from the cells?  What would be a good source for me to read
> about the cellular potentials of which you specifically mentioned?
> 
>> So "it doesn't take much", but the effects being talked about in this
>> thread are very, very, very too small to be considered enough.
> 
> the 'effects' of the electronics in Ti books is EASILY felt by anyone
> who's willing to stop by my place and rest their finger on my Ti book's
> chassis...  If the 'potential' of the battery (which is enough to kill
> you if attached to you heart) is being converted into other forms and
> or states of energy (and dissipating in 2 hours or less) - are we
> saying that "there is NO MEASURABLE  affect on one's health"?  and are
> we stating it as an indisputable fact?  And are we saying that we
> understand the phenomenon life to the degree that we can state, as
> indisputable fact, that the RF in mobile electronics etc. have ONLY
> positive, beneficial, or neutral effects, with NO adverse affects
> whatsoever?
> 
>> A good place to start is to actually study the scientific literature
>> on this.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
>> What you'll find is that most of the popular statements are known to
>> be over-wrought to the point of fear-mongering.
> 
> sometimes statements are just stated as conceptual conversational
> possibilities and sometimes the fearful blow things out of proportion...
> 
> my original questions:
> 
> my question would be - Is the 'heat' purely radiated infrared [thermal]
> heat?  os does the computer emit any radio frequency waves of a high
> enough power to cause cumulative disruption of normal cellular
> functioning after considerably long exposure?  after all - don't
> microwave ovens use high frequency electro-magnetic waves to cook food?
> 
>> Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen at lbl.gov, 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)
> 
> Respectfully,
> Luke Mazzeri (my credentials, if any, are not impressive, and will
> unquestionably have no more significance in 300 years than laptops and
> cellphones themselves)
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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