Re: microwave, RF heating

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

Some new cell phone models (they showed them in the
TV program which triggered all this) allow you to keep
the source of the waves away from the head. You listen
through an earphone which is connected to the unit.

Barlow Newbolt wrote:

> Ok.  I'm ready to believe that we don't want all of these
> electromagnetic waves absorbed in our brains.  While we don't seem to be
> completely clear on the mechanism it does seem that these waves may do
> some damage.  I'm ready to focus on another part of the problem. Could
> we give the cell-phone user some protection by designing a phone-user's
> helment lined with aluminium? or mounting a small foil reflector between
> the antenna and the head? Would such a reflector offer any protection
> considering the fairly long wavelengths of the radiation?   I don't know
> the answers to these problems, but will await enlightenment from others.
>   Perhaps for some uses - automobiles - we could separate the microphone
> and earphone part of the apparatus from the transmitter and get the
> source of the radio waves away from the speaker.