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Moorea Maguire's avatar

Go Hawaii! Well done.

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Deep Dive's avatar

Thanks for reporting on this, Suzanne.

This is good news, but it does not go far enough. At 600 feet away from a cell tower, you are 187 meters (m) away -- still within a danger zone, especially for children. In a Brazil study [ PMID: 21741680 ], being 200m away versus 300m away led to a statistically-significant increase in cancer deaths.

In a Nigerian study [ https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2034/1/012009 ], the overnight electric field strength from a cell tower at 150m -- which is close to the 183m limit in Hawaii -- was 9 V/m (21 micro-Watts per square-centimeter). But a third study in Saudi Arabia [ PMC6775553 ] found that kids in a school near a cell tower were getting 6 V/m (10 micro-Watts per square-centimer) and it harmed cognition.

By allowing cell towers as close as 183m to schools, kids in Hawaii may get exposed to more than the 6 V/m which harmed cognition in Saudi Arabia. In fact, they could get exposed to even 8 or possibly 9 V/m with a cell tower that is 183m away.

[ https://deepd1ve.substack.com/p/cancer-from-cell-towers-dose-and ]

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George Hartwell's avatar

Use orgonite to reduce the harm done by cell phone towers. It is a very simple cheap solution available to local activists. Orgonite can be placed a few hundred fee from each tower and on your property between you and the tower. Active orgonite is not made for beauty but is a simple mixture of metal particles within organic material used in making jewelry.

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Vonu's avatar

The field strength of a cellular tower is greater 600 feet away than it is directly underneath, because cellular antennas transmit their signals at a right angle to the tower.

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mari's avatar

A start

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Living Well Locally's avatar

Has there ever been a tech advance that we humans backed away from? If we have the ingenuity to create such harmful things surely we can create solutions that protect health?? Is it just awareness and will that are missing?

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John T's avatar

ANH just put out an article about this as well and something that was slipped into the BBB.

https://anh-usa.org/more-radiation-brought-to-you-by-congress/

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

I wonder if it was a good idea to get rid of our landlines and switch to cell phones. Due to these, there are coming more and more towers. If we all quit our cell phones, would they stop with that?

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Vonu's avatar

Most 5G towers will have lower power outputs than previous generations and be closer to the ground and closer together, for optimal reutilization of frequencies.

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