In message .com,
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The only problem with microwave is safety concerns: we really dont know
what the effects are, hence whether there might be problems. It doesnt
look likely there are any, but obviously more certainty is needed than
that. If people get past the usual knee jerk reaction long enough to
study the topic, it might well become part of most future central
heating systems.


People pump microwaves into their brains all the time. Mobile handsets
churn out up to 2W IIRC right behind your ear. The sorts of people who
are worried about phone masts at a couple of tens of Watts are going to
go apoplectic about an open microwave waveguide in the room spewing out
a couple of hundred Watts!

I've never quite understood how the same people who complain about masts
don't complain (much) about the phones themselves. Two things:

1: The closer you are to the transmitter, the lower the power your phone
uses. Stands to reason then that you'd want a fair number of
transmitters to reduce the power emitted by the phone directly into your
brain.

2: Inverse square law. Surely 2W in near contact with the skull is going
to transfer more energy into the brain than a few more Watts four
hundred yards away?

Hwyl!

M.

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