mlsstl;475633 Wrote: > Keep in mind that radio waves follow the inverse square law - if you > double the distance, the strength of the signal is only a quarter of > what it was at the shorter distance. >
Exactly my point - the scare stories in the press always omit this small but important point. A mobile phone handset will generate 2 Watts of RF energy typically, and a fair proportion of this will be absorbed by the body as the device is pressed up against the head. A Wi-Fi device generates 0.05 Watts typically and is genrally further away - put these together and any "threat" is orders of magnitude less. The fact that many live near regional or national radio and TV transmitters generating anything up to 1 million Watts seems to pass without comment. Not the whole story I know, but acknowledging this simple fact at least puts the "risk" from Wi-Fi into some sort of context. -- Adam_F ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam_F's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70112 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
