There is currently a national roll out of an optic fibre based National Broadband Network throughout Australia that is being promoted by the Labour Federal government. Predictably the Liberal Opposition wants a cheaper option – wireless. Here is the latest on this controversy from The Australian. It is interesting to note that while Telstra prepares [...]
The following is an article submitted to EMFacts by Georgiy Ostroumov PhD: Will new wireless technologies be safe to use? Georgiy Ostroumov PhD Common sense says that different scenarios can be implemented. But I would like to draw your attention to phrase ”It is however unlikely, due to general rules governing the design of radio [...]
From Cindy Sage: Accepted for Publication Rev Environ Health 2011;26(1):00–00 © 2010 by Walter de Gruyter • Berlin • New York. DOI 10.1515/HMBCI.2010.000 Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: The New Wireless Commons Cindy Sage, MA Sage Associates, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Keywords: Commons, overuse of environmental capacity, wireless, technology, public health, finite resources The October-December [...]
Message #1203 mentioned the investigative cell phone article by Christopher Ketcham in GQ Mazazine and this message follows it up further. Even though the article is primarily aimed at the American audience the problem is universal: the involvement of political and corporate entities in suppressing and controlling science to protect their interests to the detriment [...]
Homeless people turned into WiFi hotspots!!
Congratulations to marketing company BBH in New York for coming up with a truly innovative way to help solve the problem of what to do with homeless people. Simple-just zap em with microwaves! This creative idea is even better than the truly ingenious proposal to heat homes with microwaves _ see: http://www.emfacts.com/2009/03/1040-the-brave-new-world-of-microwave-home-heating/. Don Sent in [...]