Subject:  Re SAR-VALUES (Borlin)(Reuss).
Date:     Tue, 05 Dec 2000 104519 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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.......Response from EMF-L......

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Subject: Re: SAR-VALUES (Borlin).
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:20:06 +0100
From: creuss@bluewin.ch (Christoph Reuss)
To: roy@emfguru.com
CC: WILLE.BORLIN@JARFALLA.MAIL.POSTNET.SE

Wille Borlin wrote:
> The amount of energy needed to heat a " ball of salt-water" is of no
> value when talking of possible low-radiation  EMF-damages.

It is NOT "of no value", because the amount of radiation affects BOTH
thermal AND NON-thermal effects!
(SARs are misleading for other reasons, but that's a different issue.)


> If  ( reasonable ) heat would be a problem to the brain or other
> parts of our body, everybody that has enjoyed a sauna-bath,
> now and then, would suffer all kinds of diseases, which i think
> we donīt............

This logic doesn't hold water either, because the sauna heat is applied to
the *surface* of the body, and that is a process that the human body is
accustomed to  from nature, i.e. has developed *compensation* processes
during evolution (e.g. sweating).  That's why your body temperature
remains THE SAME in the sauna (you don't get fever there, do you?).
But you can't sweat IN the brain !!!  That's a place where no
compensation mechanism is available, because we didn't evolve to
microwave our innards...

Cheerio,
Chris


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