[liberationtech] 5g health effects?

[Bill Woodcock]

> On Feb 28, 2021, at 10:28 PM, 3gg <3gg at shellblade.net> wrote:
> Are any of you particularly acquainted with the health effects/risks of 5g

Yes.

The principal difference between 5g and previous generations of wireless deployment is that 5g emphasizes microcellular scale.  That is, it puts the radios closer to people, which means that more people can be served, at higher speed each, because fewer people share the same spectrum.  This means that each cell can (must!) transmit at a much lower wattage, because it’s not trying to reach as far.  Specifically, it’s trying to reach less far, so that another cell can be put up closer, and a larger pool of users can be divided between the two cells.  So, the cells transmit at lower wattage, but they’re also closer, so that only benefits the people who are closest to the current cells, once they’re decommissioned, since they’re the ones who will be absorbing lower wattage than before.

But cells are far away, and RF energy drops off as the square of the distance, so cells are really insignificant in all this.  What matters is the phone.  The thing you hold up next to your head, when you want to warm up.  That’s really close to you, but really far from the cell.  So it needs to transmit at fairly high wattage to reach the cell at all, and that means a lot of its energy goes into cooking you, since you’re close and occluding a large portion of its field-of-view.  By bringing the cell closer, the phone’s transmit wattage can be reduced, giving you a smaller, lighter phone, with a longer-lasting battery and, perhaps most importantly, it uses far less of the energy in that battery to cook your head.

So, yes, 5g has substantial health benefits.

                                -Bill

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