Folks, Follow the money, always follow the money. The money to be followed in this case, are the amounts chasing high rise buildings in Toronto. Local telecommunications companies pay a lot to mount their transmission towers on strategic high rises.
Then they pay an annual rent to the condo or building owners. Condo owners actively seek such arrangements as it means that they have another source of income to meet maintenance expenses for the buildings. Granted, telecommunications technology in Canada may not be comparable to that in India. The bottom line is that these towers have been sitting on top of expensive buildings for the past 30 years. The microwaves they have transmitted are those from the early days to today's state of the art technology. If these transmissions were causing any kind of ill health to the residents, the residents would have long ago documented the problem and sued the deep pocket telecommunication companies. Mervyn BTW, there is a large tower on GOA's property in Toronto. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> > I read your report and the list of references. I have many problems with > them. > But rather than list all of these problems I will just point out the three > most > fundamental ones. If one cannot satisfactorily address the latter to start > with > then it is pointless to even consider this any further, because they > essentially > kill the entire case that you have presented in your advocacy report. > > The first of these problems is related to what Gerard has already said but > goes > much deeper, and actually uses your own argument regarding power densities > against your claims. You have calculated that the power density of cell phone > tower radiation one meter from the tower is 79.6 Watts per square meter. > Assuming that the tower is 15 meters tall, from your calculation the power > density of this radiation on the ground should be 9.54 Watts per square > meter. > You claim that these power densities are too high to be safe for humans, > other > animals and trees. You say that this is the case because at these power > densities these electromagnetic waves heat up the water molecules in the > tissues > like a microwave oven, and in turn, cause all the various short term and long > term effects such as brain damage, infertility, depression, cancer, heart > problems, breathing problems, death, and so on. >
