Mobile phones dangers when used inside cars
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rikNorad said:
A car is a Faraday cage; not perfect and that's why we have signal but.....why a lightning that hits a car don't kill the occupants? Because we are inside a Faraday cage.
About the independent studies: as stated in the first post: Bioinitiative and even the IARC classifies mobile phones as possible carcinogenic.
Lightning is massively different to microwave radiation. It doesnt radiate, for a start.About the independent studies: as stated in the first post: Bioinitiative and even the IARC classifies mobile phones as possible carcinogenic.
How is a phone carcinogenic?
rikNorad said:
A car is a Faraday cage; not perfect and that's why we have signal but.....why a lightning that hits a car don't kill the occupants? Because we are inside a Faraday cage.
About the independent studies: as stated in the first post: Bioinitiative and even the IARC classifies mobile phones as possible carcinogenic.
..........oh wait your seriousAbout the independent studies: as stated in the first post: Bioinitiative and even the IARC classifies mobile phones as possible carcinogenic.
rikNorad said:
I used the lightning as an example just to make clear that a car actually IS a faraday cage, an imperfect cage that even if let the mobile phone signal go through, part of these radiations keep bouncing inside the car and end absorbed by the bodies of occupants.
Many people spend a lot of time inside their cars: the fact that we spend a lot of time with these devices very close to our body should not justify having them also in the car but instead keep them off the body always.
Thats not how a Faraday cage works though...one size doesnt fit all.Many people spend a lot of time inside their cars: the fact that we spend a lot of time with these devices very close to our body should not justify having them also in the car but instead keep them off the body always.
You may have a point regarding keeping phones off the body, but that's due to the thermal nature of microwave radiation that promotes tissue growth...but this is over a very long time and AFAIK was associated primarily with the early analogue phones that used more power. Not even sure if a proven link was established...
rikNorad said:
A car is a Faraday cage
Yes, but not at the frequency involved.Any aperture in a Faraday cage must be less than around 1% of the wavelength involved.
It may be a Faraday cage at 1 MHz but at 900 or 1800 MHz it will be as effective as a chocolate fireguard.
rikNorad said:
.....why a lightning that hits a car don't kill the occupants?
Because the car body is acting as an ESD shield. ESD is a totally different phenomena to RF.
rikNorad said:
About the independent studies: as stated in the first post: Bioinitiative and even the IARC classifies mobile phones as possible carcinogenic.
WHO and INCIRP said:
Studies to date provide no indication that environmental exposure to RF fields, such as from base stations, increases the risk of cancer or any other disease.
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