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The debate seems to have switched from masts over to handsets again. This is a completely differerent thing. Handsets come with a health warning and can heat up the heads they are next to. I wouldn't want my kids to be on a mobile for long, but masts don't bother me at all. One on the street outside would not worry me. It's the last time I'll say it but it's that old inverse square law again. The power disssipates quickly over distance. A transmitter next to your head or in your pocket will locally warm your body up. Could it affect your brain? Probably not but for the ease of getting the kids to use hands free earbuds, I get them to use them.
(Edit) Aha… found it. Typical phone transmitter power is up to 125mW for modern phones, and a typical mast is up to 100W. The mast is only about a thousand times more powerful, so the answer should be 30cm/1foot, roughly. But that assumes that the mast transmitter isn't highly directive - which it is, so the inverse square law doesn't fully apply. The real answer will be slightly greater - and if the phone is not transmitting constantly at maximum power, which it won't be *especially* if you're that close to the mast, the real answer is greater again. But it can't be anywhere near as much as a million-to-one difference and probably not much more than 10,000 to one - so basically unless you're within a few metres of the mast - and at roughly the same height - then the phone in your pocket is definitely more dangerous.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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To go about this you would first establish the things that might come out of the phone and cause damage (heat, radiation, terrorists etc). Then you would establish the levels of these things that would cause damage over a meaningful amount of exposure. Then you would measure these things to determine whether they were above or below these levels.
Sorry to be a bit...eurgh...sciencey.
"Apple iPhone sales correlates with People who died by falling down the stairs"
http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=28669...with usual correlation is not causation disclaimers etc.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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https://planning.westlothian.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=DCAPR_139232
Also, a guy from work posted this to me:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20662418
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We already know that they're OK. So do you, you just need to tell your brain that.
FYI:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/sustainability/mmh.html#
TBH our wifi router is right under the computer and I always sit right next to that!
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The inverse square law is very powerful. Even if it was purely linear, it would still be a 50th of the strength. The phone is *by far* the greater risk. Which is why it's now sitting on the desk about as far away as the router...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein