Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Urgency for protection from Electro magnetic radiation

Our exposure to electro magnetic radiation (EMR) is increasing at an alarming rate. for example , in 2001, there were approximately 1 billion subscribers of cell phones in the world and in 2011, there are more than 5 billion subscribers.
Also, minutes per day of use of cell phones has increased globally due to lower price. Which implies increased radiation.To meet this increased communication demand , number of cell towers  have increased substantially to several millions. People living close to these  towers  absorb radiation 24x7. In addition number of Wi-Fi systems, wireless transmitters, etc. have increased rapidly in the last decade, thereby adding to radiation pollution.
Many countries in the world have adopted guide lines of safe radiation given by ICNIRP ( International Commission on  Non -ionizing Radiation Protection ) 1998.
Most Cell towers are mounted near residential and office buildings to provide good mobile phone coverage to the users. Together these towers transmit several tens to  hundreds of  watts of power. This is comparable to a microwave woven with 500 watts of output power. In which food gets  cooked in a few minutes. Radiation is transmitted through a directional antenna that yields  maximum radiation in the direction of the main beam. power density varies  according to the distance  from the tower. People living at a distance  of tens of meters to a few hundreds  of meters from these towers  have experienced several  health problems.
Such as , sleep disorder, headache, lack of  concentration, memory loss, joint pain, skin rashes, miss carriage and cancer. The radiation from cell towers also affects birds, animals  tress  and  environment.  One rarely sees birds near cell towers. As  their volume is  large  and weight is less  they feel heating effect faster  than humans . It has also been  observed  that the yield of fruit bearing tress , which are near  cell  towers  and in line  of the main beam, is going down  significantly.
Cell phone industry is becoming another  cigarette industry , which kept  claiming  that  smoking is not  harmful and now  there are millions  off people  around the world  who have suffered from smoking. In fact , cell phone/tower radiation is  worse than smoking, as one  can not see it  or smell it, and its effect on health is noted  after a long period   of exposure .

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2 comments:

  1. thank you albin joseph for comments , pl. spread this to your near and dear !!

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