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Re: analogous to being inside a microwave said by Springbok:So does that mean the antennas fixed to the water tower behind my house is poisoning my family? If your family was on top of the tower right next to the actual radiating elements, then probably. But if they're safely on the ground I'd expect no worries. Radiation levels decrease exponentially (I believe) with distance. |
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 toddbs98
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North Little Rock, AR | And people will use this story to try to prove that cell phones cause brain tumors.... |
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 mikepdDiscoveryPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-26
New Port Richey, FL
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| reply to myokitis
From my radiation physics class when I was an x-ray student back in the early '70's-
The original intensity of ionizing radiation falls off inversely proportional to the distance squared.
This is known as the Inverse Square Law and applies to all forms of ionizing radiation.
Here is a website that discusses the inverse square law and related topics.
»www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResource···uare.htm
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 bentand IngaPremium
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| reply to myokitis
said by myokitis:said by Springbok:So does that mean the antennas fixed to the water tower behind my house is poisoning my family? If your family was on top of the tower right next to the actual radiating elements, then probably. But if they're safely on the ground I'd expect no worries. Radiation levels decrease exponentially (I believe) with distance. Inverse square.
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TV RF energy is non-ionizing, but the inverse square law applies to that as well.
Looking up the two TV and one FM on the tower, almost a half a million watts of RF is radiated just from those three stations. He's lucky WTXX doesn't have their channel 20 DTV online yet, or it would have been almost a million watts. Exposure at the antenna to that much RF has permanent repercussions. |
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