OK – so you are all used to me wittering on about the dangers of electromagnetic radiation, wifi, smart meters, mobile phones and baby alarms. But now the Daily Mail has weighed in with a long article by Geoffrey Lean quoting Professor Anthony Miller of Toronto University. The Professor was Director of Canada’s National Cancer Institute’s Epidemiology Unit, and has held top posts in the World Health Organisation and the German Cancer Research Centre.
Like many other top scientists around the world, Professor Miller is worried not only about the risk to children of the ubiquitous use of wifi in schools, but about the more general risks to human health that may come with our massive exposure to man-made electromagnetic radiation.
He believes that it is high time to start taking sensible precautionary measures to protect our children. The alternative is to do nothing and hope for the best – what we did with tobacco and asbestos, and we know how that turned out. In the Professor’s words: ‘We ignore this at our future peril.’
But, as Geoffrey Lean points out, while governments around the world are heeding then Professor’s words and starting to take a precautionary approach and, at the very least, encouraging the use of wired rather than wifi connections, in the UK Public Health England see no danger, and positively encourages the use so wifi in schools. And this despite numerous reports suggesting that its use should be limited.
Since reading your article I have been turning off my BT Hub unit when I am not using the computer. I previously put the computer on in the morning and turned it off in the evening, just shutting the lid on the laptop computer until I want to use the computer again.
I tend to use the computer in several sessions between meals and other activities such as housework.
I use the computer on a direct Ethernet connection – my choice – but as far as I know I cannot turn off the wifi being sent out by the BT Hub while still using the Ethernet. Maybe there needs to be a law to require all hubs being capable of having the wifi switched off while still able to use the Ethernet connection.
I have only used the wifi on a few occasions, with a smartphone, but just to prove to myself that I could order groceries if the computer goes down.
What I am wondering about is where the energy from the electromagnetic waves of the wifi goes. There is a range of usability, so the energy must go somewhere.
BT says there are around 12 million wifi hotspots available for me to use around the world, so where does the energy from 12 million wifi hotspots go?
https://www.bt.com/wifi/secure/index.do?s_cid=con_FURL_btfon
What effects does it have?
I remember that around 1970 a man started saying that use of aerosols would eventually damage the ozone layer.
William Overington
Monday 2 July 2018
You are quite right that a BT hub sends out a wifi signal even if you do not use wifi because you use ethernet. It is a scandalous intrusion on the part of BT who are using private wifi installations as hubs for their network. Much worse, they do not tell anyone that they are doing so and, although it is possible to disable it, it is not easy. See a lengthy blog and exchange dating back five here – Are you hosting a BT Hot spot?
The effect is that everyone using a BT hub is bather in wifi signal 24/7 whether they wish to be or not.