Mobile phones dangers when used inside cars

[Magic919]

You might want to Google 'paragraph'.

[Lowtimer]

Well, this is the first time I've seen a poster on here who might *actually* be about to recommend us all to wear tinfoil hats. Don't disappoint us, OP.

[citizensm1th]

wont somebody think of the children ?

[R_U_LOCAL]

[gus607]

Open the car window & lean out! (strewth)

[Lowtimer]

The good news, by the way, is that while tinfoil hats don't work, a tasteful all-over tinfoil body suit is just the ticket.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/04/03...

[tomjol]

Even has "Norad" in the name. Fantastic tin hattery.

[daytona365]

I quite agree. Secondhand cars that have been thus subjected to radiation should be viewed the same way as cars that have been smoked in, and should be sold at a good discount.........If money's more important than the obvious risks involved that is.

[Lowtimer]

Do you even know how a Faraday cage works?

If so perhaps you could start by showing us your calculations as to how a car acts as a Faraday cage, with reference to the wavelengths in use, and the aperture size a Faraday cage requires in order to block those wavelengths.

[littleredrooster]

rikNorad said:

Indeed, children, as they are specially vulnerable to mobile phone radiations, but not only them. Consider that a modern mobile phone delivers up to x100 more radiations than what independent studies consider as "safe" levels.

I think that if you are going to bang the safety drum, you'd be better off banning kids from having phones in their pockets at school all day rather than the 10 minutes per day that they are in a car.

[Lowtimer]

rikNorad said:

Indeed, children, as they are specially vulnerable to mobile phone radiations, but not only them. Consider that a modern mobile phone delivers up to x100 more radiations than what independent studies consider as "safe" levels.

Also please cite these studies.

[Inertiatic]

A signal repeater would work - external aerial for a phone basically. However, as I can get full sign in my car...

Its the same problem as why low signal is worse for your battery as the phone ups the gain to compensate.

Also why living near a phone mast isn't as bad as you might think

Microwave radiation is non-ionising. It doesn't linger and doesn't cause mutation in cells. It can however promote growth of cells...hence talk of benign tumours from early analogue phones.

Edited by Inertiatic on Monday 4th May 11:39

Edited by Inertiatic on Monday 4th May 11:41

[tex200]

Please expand on this magnificent scientific term "radiations"

[rallycross]

Thanks for your information I will make sure I have the sunroof open when I am using the phone.

[untakenname]

A Faraday cage is enclosed on all sides, if you put a mobile into a true faraday cage then you'll get no signal whatsoever (try putting one in a microwave and watch the signal vanish), due to the amount of glass and how thin the sheet metal in a car is phones don't even go down one bar signal wise as it's not a cage..

If people are that bothered about the minute risk of radiation then they can buy a convertible. Btw when it comes to wattage emitted Tetra/Airwave basestations put out far more RF and so does wifi.

[daytona365]

Think Chernobyl and all the inconvenience, not to mention deaths that caused.........Radiation ? No thanks.

[Silent1]

What a load of utter bullst!

[budfox]

Frogs. Box of.

[Lowtimer]

tex200 said:

Please expand on this magnificent scientific term "radiations"

Don't be a nasty cynic, Tex. Here's one


According to a documentary I saw last night on BBC 3, you can make yourself safe from them by hiding in a fridge.

[daytona365]

What, for 300,000 years ? Hardly practical I'd have thought.