As a physicist who dabbled in EM work, I can't find a way on earth to avoid microwaves. Whether they cause damage is unknown but it tends toward unlikely. The worst EM environment I have worked with involves the deck of a carrier. The sailors who work those decks are exposed to remarkably high fields yet data suggest they are not materially different in terns of health risk.
Where the risk is greatest are those living at altitudes or flying at altitudes where exposure to ionizing radiation is high. We do find evidence of perhaps more genetic mutations that persist among them, yet those living at altitude often live longer on average. The mutations may even be beneficial to humanity, no way to know in just a few generations of humans.
It is quite true that directed energy microwaves can cause discomfort and such tools were found useful in crowd control. We will avoid that discomfort. The same energy can be used to disrupt electronic equipment not designed to resist exposure. But electronic circuitry is not as robust as a human.
Women carrying cell phones in their bras? Quite a thought but I don't know any women who do that. I do carry my phone in my shirt pocket. Have no idea why it happens to always be the left pocket above my heart. I buy only phones I can fit in the pocket saving me from the larger models. I haven't worried much. Most people seem to be happy with larger phones that rarely fit shirt pockets (or in bras, I would think).
I just can't get excited as we a bathing in a sea of EM radiation. I assume humanity will adapt. Otherwise our neighbors in places with no radiation may return us to the age before such evils.
What about ham radio? In the US, we work with everything from milliwatts up to 1500 watts. The antennas that we send out that power to are removed from us, but they aren't, as a rule, several hundred feet away.
Good question. I tried to find a table of relative dangers posed by different devices. Could not. It always came back to "Buy an RF meter." Since we don't live near towers or power lines, I think I have identified the dangers and simply minimize them. But if I were a ham, or living in an apartment, I would probably have one.
Our house is wired for Internet. I'll do that. However, there are computers all over, and they move a lot. Best bet is to get people to put them in airplane mode when they are not on the Internet. The router is in a far corner of the house - not near anybody.
Checked out the meters today. Small selection and expensive here, and I don't know what I would change based on which I learned. Major change should be to get a gas stove after the war ends and use it instead of the microwave to heat stuff.
Most microwave ovens do a good job of containing the field if the door seals are intact. They will fail quickly if you defeat the seals somehow. They are somewhat feedback controlled in their cavity - good way to burn them out.
I prefer a gas stove, but electric oven. Sadly my newer gas range can't work without the electric safety controls. When there is no power, can't use it.
If they are bluetooth, probably. Anything electrical. But the named biggies are phones, WiFi and microwaves. Induction stoves, probably too new to have been mentioned, and power lines, which you can't control, are also big.
As a physicist who dabbled in EM work, I can't find a way on earth to avoid microwaves. Whether they cause damage is unknown but it tends toward unlikely. The worst EM environment I have worked with involves the deck of a carrier. The sailors who work those decks are exposed to remarkably high fields yet data suggest they are not materially different in terns of health risk.
Where the risk is greatest are those living at altitudes or flying at altitudes where exposure to ionizing radiation is high. We do find evidence of perhaps more genetic mutations that persist among them, yet those living at altitude often live longer on average. The mutations may even be beneficial to humanity, no way to know in just a few generations of humans.
It is quite true that directed energy microwaves can cause discomfort and such tools were found useful in crowd control. We will avoid that discomfort. The same energy can be used to disrupt electronic equipment not designed to resist exposure. But electronic circuitry is not as robust as a human.
Women carrying cell phones in their bras? Quite a thought but I don't know any women who do that. I do carry my phone in my shirt pocket. Have no idea why it happens to always be the left pocket above my heart. I buy only phones I can fit in the pocket saving me from the larger models. I haven't worried much. Most people seem to be happy with larger phones that rarely fit shirt pockets (or in bras, I would think).
I just can't get excited as we a bathing in a sea of EM radiation. I assume humanity will adapt. Otherwise our neighbors in places with no radiation may return us to the age before such evils.
What about ham radio? In the US, we work with everything from milliwatts up to 1500 watts. The antennas that we send out that power to are removed from us, but they aren't, as a rule, several hundred feet away.
Good question. I tried to find a table of relative dangers posed by different devices. Could not. It always came back to "Buy an RF meter." Since we don't live near towers or power lines, I think I have identified the dangers and simply minimize them. But if I were a ham, or living in an apartment, I would probably have one.
Get one of these - https://www.amazon.com/TriField-EMF-Meter-Model-TF2/dp/B078T2R64C/ref=sr_1_2 - or something like it. And use hardwired Ethernet instead of WiFi...
Our house is wired for Internet. I'll do that. However, there are computers all over, and they move a lot. Best bet is to get people to put them in airplane mode when they are not on the Internet. The router is in a far corner of the house - not near anybody.
Checked out the meters today. Small selection and expensive here, and I don't know what I would change based on which I learned. Major change should be to get a gas stove after the war ends and use it instead of the microwave to heat stuff.
Most microwave ovens do a good job of containing the field if the door seals are intact. They will fail quickly if you defeat the seals somehow. They are somewhat feedback controlled in their cavity - good way to burn them out.
I prefer a gas stove, but electric oven. Sadly my newer gas range can't work without the electric safety controls. When there is no power, can't use it.
Hearing aids? Are they culprits as well?
If they are bluetooth, probably. Anything electrical. But the named biggies are phones, WiFi and microwaves. Induction stoves, probably too new to have been mentioned, and power lines, which you can't control, are also big.
And what about pacemakers?
Not mentioned in the book. Neither are induction stoves, though I just today investigated and found that, as I suspected, they emit a lot of RF.