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Wasn't the point of 2.4 GHz being unregulated because it's used by microwave ovens (citation needed). It interacts strongly with water atleast
by ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
Wasn't the point of 2.4 GHz being unregulated because it's used by microwave ovens (citation needed). It interacts strongly with water atleast
- XorNot 3y agoTo produce thermal heating. The RF radiation fear trades off the word "radiation" and how no one actually knows what that means.
- hedora 3y agoUnshielded microwave ovens definitely cause cancer. The energy penetrates the skin, and some of it plays billiards with the atoms in DNA, genetic transcription machinery, etc. I can’t find a study because the internet is full of blog spam saying your microwave oven has shielding that keeps emissions to a safe level (of course), and studies looking at microwave radiation exposure near the cell phone limit, not 1000x higher, which is roughly what your microwave does if the shielding is missing or the safety interlock is broken.
- kube-system 3y agoIonizing radiation damages DNA. But microwaves do not emit any ionizing radiation. For a microwave to damage your DNA it would have to burn your flesh. Then you wouldn't be worried about cancer, you'd be worried that you just microwaved your arm until it started burning.
- hedora 3y agoIt can heat below the nerve endings.
- wongarsu 3y agoI thought unshielded microwave ovens are a problem because they heat stuff, and humans operate quite close to their thermal maximum. If you're at the upper end of normal body temperatures, a change of just 8°F/4°C can bring you from normal operating temperature to cell damage. That and interfering with wifi.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoThe point is that radiation can interact with stuff without it always being ionizing, like the water/microwave interaction