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> There's just not enough power there to do anything meaningful to us.

Unless specific frequency bands cause problems because something very specific is triggered.

Sure, wifi may only be hitting you with 1 milliwatt per square meter. But between 2.4GHz and 2.5GHz the sun only hits you with... if I did the math right, and just accounting for blackbody emissions, around 10 picowatts per square meter.

We're probably fine, but whether it's fine can't be proven with a simple physics calculation that ignores spectrum.




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