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Right. We already did this experiment, as a society. In the old analog days, people were beaming an actual watt straight into their heads, Bluetooth still being
by wnissen 9y ago
Right. We already did this experiment, as a society. In the old analog days, people were beaming an actual watt straight into their heads, Bluetooth still being a decade in the future. Now the max is something like an eighth of that (.125 watts), and the towers are much closer so the actual power involved is probably another order of magnitude lower. You would have seen a spike in brain cancer and then a drop, and it would be obvious.
- hammock 9y agoBeaming a watt into their heads? With what technology?
- jessaustin 9y agoThe first mobile phones were attached to internal combustion engines.
- archgoon 9y agoTrue fact. The first car phones were done in 1946.
- jacquesm 9y agoOmnidirectional antenna held in close proximity to their heads. Water absorbs that radiation pretty good and turns it into heat.
- hammock 9y agoAre you talking about radios or TV antennas? Don't cell phones today still have antennas? - Are they lower power now than they were?
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- wnissen 9y agoJacquesm has it right, just an ordinary radio. There was a reason the brick-sized Motorola DynaTAC had only a 30 minute talk time, and it wasn't that the battery was small. Thus the popularity of the carphone, as noted elsewhere. It's hard to get a straight up comparison of transmission strength, because it's highly dependent on how close you are to the tower, but even if you assume max power all the time, it's about an order of magnitude less on digital.
- kalleboo 9y agoThe numbers I can find on Google are the classic Motorola 8000X "Brick phone" (AMPS technology) transmitted at up to 1.5W when handheld, and a modern LTE phone transmits at up to 0.2W.