"M. G. Devour" wrote: > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > From: "Nina Silver" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mike Devour" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ON MICROWAVING FOOD > Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:30:08 -0400 > > Kopp writes, "the foods were exposed to microwave propagation at an energy > potential of 100 > kilowatts per cubic centimeter per second, to the point considered > acceptable for sanitary, normal ingestion." > > Being within just a three foot range of a microwave oven will expose you > to these dangers. After 3 > feet, the radiation levels drop off 80%, but remain for 15 minutes even > after the oven has been turned off.
Such nonsense as the above brings the whole article into question. If the article cannot get simple facts straight, how can we trust it to be accurate on what we don't know? 100 kilowatts per cubic centimeter per second makes no sense. That would be an acceleration of energy per cubic centimeter. In other words that says that each cc would received 100 kilowatts at the one second mark, 200 kilowatts at the 2 second period and 1 megawatt at the 10 second mark. That is nonsense, no test would be run that way. Most likely they would run the test at a constant wattage. The units would likely be 100 kilowatts per CC, or 100 kilojoules per CC per second. ( A kilowatt equals a kilojoule per second, so both of these describe the same power per cc). And even this is a power level 1000 times higher than a piece of food would encounter in a microwave oven. The second paragraph is saying that an electronic wave that propagates at 186,000 miles per second will stick around for 15 seconds. That is like saying that a room will still be lit 15 seconds after the light is turned out from the radiation from that light. That is utterly impossible unless there is something there to store the radiation. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
