Subject: Re Electronic shortfall; hazards (fwd)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 191617 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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.......Sometime ago I wrote about the "Blue World." What a shameC
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:55:02
From: Alasdair Philips
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Electronic shortfall; hazards (fwd)
Roy (& Bert)
Motorala has already supplied the answer - Iridium which is just starting
its service operation. Microwaves beamed down on all of us from satellites
will give global coverage even when all land based towers are out of
operation - all the users need to do is purchase a new, higher powered
double standard Iridium compatible handset. Their brains(?) may gently
fry but what does that matter when they will at least be able to use
their phones after severe weather cut power supplies. At least until
they need to re-charge the batteries!
So this isn't really a useable argument anymore.
Alasdair
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Alasdair Philips (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
Director, UK Powerwatch,
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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At 16:41 01/09/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:52:14 -0400
>From: Bdumpe@worldbank.org
>To: rbeavers@llion.org
>Subject: Electronic shortfall; hazards
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>Roy: Could you broadcast please?
>
>Friends: Thanks to hurricane Bonnie, the news is finally out that wireless
>telecommunications systems are useless during power outages. It said so in
>the front page of the Richmond (capital of Virginia) newspaper (Richmond
>Times-Dispatch; Saturday, August 29, 1998). ...snip ...
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> "Chesapeake [Virginia] reported 12 storm-related injuries, and
>communications companies said the power outages interrupted cellular
>telephone service."
>
>Today, four days later, electric utility poles are still laying on the
>ground like broken pretzels, Nearly 350,000 homes in the Virginia Beach
>area remain powerless. Full power may not be restored until Wednesday of
>this week. So power outages render cellphones silent, eh?Wonder if
>government officials will now stop considering wireless communications the
>utopian salvation of the world!
>
>This is exactly what happened in Ottawa, Canada during the ice storm this
>past winter. Power outages in Ottawa made it impossible to use cellphones.
>Thus, the Ottawa paper reported that "emergency crews could not reach their
>people in the field even though they had cellphones." Same thing in Florida
>during the recent fires. Cellphones were useless, and the media reported
>that "firemen were standing in line to use payphones." So why is industry
>and government pushing tower siting and E-911 emergency service? Violent
>weather will even cause towers with atomic clocks to topple. Microwave
>towers are simply another hazard to contend with during calamitous weather.
>
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