Let’s see….. The popcorn package label says “Place bag in a 1000 watt microwave oven. Set power level to HIGH. Cook for 5 minutes……” When you take the popcorn out of the oven, it is HOT and it BURNS your finger to touch the popcorn.
A cell phone battery can last for about 6 hour talk time after one full charge, so the power consumed per second is very low. The power transmitted through the antenna is probably 5 to 7mW. For the law of conservation of energy to work, you will need about 100,000 cell phones all transmitting IN PHASE for this to work. To put this another way, the size of a popcorn is about the same as the size of a ¼ watt through hole resistor (with wire leads). This resistor, through its natural surface heat dissipation, will get hot when you drive 1V, 250mA of power through it. But when you decrease the power down to 10mW (less than 5% of the rated power capacity), the resistor will not even get warm. What I am saying is this – the cell phone antenna radiates power in all directions, so very little arrives at the popcorn, but even if you take the full power (10mW) and drive that through the ¼ W resistor, the component will not even get warm (at 5% capacity) to the touch, as compared to the burning hot popcorn out of the microwave oven. If you believe the power through this COLD RESISTOR can cook a popcorn, then I have a Golden Gate Bridge to sell you. Of course, what long term side effects cell phone has on the human body (ringing in ear due to one sided hearing, muscle cramps in the arm and neck, poor brain development in young children due to concentration to sound coming from only one ear, hormonal imbalance due to lack of exercise….) is unknown to people. But cooking popcorn with a cell phone radiated power is ridiculous. George ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reginald Henry Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:40 AM To: [email protected]; James, Chris; [email protected] Subject: like your eggs raw /// mobile phone safety When in doubt about email validity, always go to www.snopes.com If you use key search words, you will find that the answer is NO ! Additional video on the site showing... an experiment with one hundred cell phones surrounding an egg... ***Guess what, if you like your egg raw it works. rh ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dward Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:49 PM To: 'James, Chris'; [email protected] Subject: RE: mobile phone safety Here is the relationship of cell phones to popping corn. 1 Place the popcorn in a bowl with butter and salt. 2 Place one two or three cellphones in a plastic bag and place in the same bowl. The plastic bag is to protect the cell phone from the butter. 3 Place the bowl into a microwave oven. 4 Turn microwave oven on high. 5 Run for the hills because you do not want to be anywhere around when the corn start to pop – that should happen just shortly after one or all of the cellphones explode and come flying through the clear glass of the micro wave door. 6 Do not eat the pop corn, even if you can clean it off the walls, as it will probably be contaminated by the hazardous material from the 2002/95/EC non compliant cellphones. Dennis Ward Director of Engineering American TCB Certification Resource for the Wireless Industry www.atcb.com 703-847-4700 fax 703-847-6888 direct - 703-880-4841 NOTICE: This E-Mail message and any attachment may contain privileged or company proprietary information. If you received this message in error, please return to the sender. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James, Chris Sent: 06/17/2008 11:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: mobile phone safety Anyone care to comment on whether popping pop-corn with mobile (cell) phones is a reality? A number of video clips are appearing on the internet demonstrating it but it could of course be contrived: http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html <BLOCKED::http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html> Chris ________________________________ This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this message. 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