On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:57:39 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 03/28/2021 12:37 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It's high time they replaced the microwave with something more
suitable. Can't they adjust the frequency slightly so it's only
partially absorbed by water, hence it would make it's way further in to
the deeper water too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielec...ng#Penetration

Already done. The first company I worked for made dielectric heaters,
chiefly for the plastics industry. Most thermoset resins like the
phenolics respond well. Typically the units would operate around 100
MHz. That's in the middle of the US FM band but since the frequency
changed very slowly during the cycle it did not interfere. We kept one
of the smaller models in the engineering lab. It did wonders for day old
goods from the bakery down the street.

In a classic case of missing the boat, the company did experiment with
some large microwaves that were placed in several of the local
restaurants. However they never saw them as a consumer product. Our
product was similar to Raytheon's RadaRange, a massive beast.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/8369028835/

Raytheon bought Amana in '65 and the first consumer microwaves came out
in '67 but like the early personal computers they didn't take off for a
few years. There was a mythology similar to 5G; either the microwaves
would sterilize you or make you incredibly fertile, take your pick.



Mine came from Monkey Wards around 71/72. I think I got it for
Christmas 71. It was pretty expensive as I recall. It is still working
tho.