Radiation (was: <Silly>: Help with question about web page access)

Am 17 Aug 2004 22:53 meinte Tony Duell: No Tony, you must be completely wrong. As lower as the energy gets, as more dangerous it is. You know, when they tell us that it's X-Ray, but harmless, that means they don't want to tell us the truce! *G* Well, I had my most memorable moment when I bough my condo and had it redone. I hired a friend of mine to supervise it. She's an architect and did quite a lot of similar jobs. So while we where discussing what to do, she asked me if I want an 'all off switch' in the bed room. I think I must have looked quite stupid, so she explained that this would be a switch to cut off power from the outlets and the light, and that a lot of people doing projects in a similar setting request that. When I argued, that outlets where nothing is plugged in are already off, and the same goes for the light (when if I switch it off). She told me that there are 'experts' telling people that these lines still engulf you in low frequency radio waves, and only a complete cut off will help. It took me some time to understand that ... no, that's a lie, I still haven't understood this mindset. I mean, what is it good for to 'switch off' the wires in the sealing which is usualy some 2m away from the place you rest your head,and keep the ones in the room below, that is less than a meter away, on 'full radiation power'? Or have a power outlet 'switched off' when in the same wall, just a few cm away, on the other side, is a regular one? I learned even more weiredness about that. For example you may 'shield' your bed room by having copper wire wall paper. No, not massive copper fabric, but a rather wide (>1cm) copper grid to be put on the wall before the real wallpaper, or even 'higehr quality', wallpaper that has already some wires in. I mean, beside leaving the sealing free (in most cases), even the most paranoid don't put 'em on the floor. Not to mention, that I haven't found any information aout the frequency range and so on, but as I see it, it just works because it's there, and everybody knows, that a metalic cage shields of electricity. Doesn't it? Boy I'm glad nobody told this to my mobile phone - otherwise it would stop working inside cars. Well, so much for electricity, but tha's prety 'normal' the real weirdos even got for total shielded houses and are realy concerned about 'earth waves' and 'fields'. Yeah, right, she told me, she once had a client who requestes to have a copper layer in the concrete basement (over here usualy every single house hase a basement, and usualy made of concrete). Jup, the copper should protect the family. Stupid me would be, if at all, more concerned about the radiation from the concrete itself - not realy stopable by a few embedded wires. Well, I could go on for hours. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 6.0 am 30.April und 01.Mai 2005 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/