Beyond Radiation

Earth Hour: Turning off your mobile phone and focusing on base stations

Have you ever thought about the huge power consumption of mobile phone base stations?

Example from Denmark: Power consumption, basestations and phone battery-chargers 2008-2009:

- 7.500 basestations in Denmark running 24/7 use 2500 Kwh per month, giving a total of 234.000.000 Kwh per year.

- 5.000.000 phone battery-chargers in Denmark (= no. of subscribers) use 0,3225 Kwh per month giving a total of 19.350.000 Kwh per year.

- With a 253.350.000 Kwh total power consumption in Denmark, it amounts to a yearly personal power usage of 51 Kwh for every mobile-phone subscriber.

Extrapolated to a global scale of 4 billion mobile-phone subscribers, it gives a estimated total of 202.680.000.000 Kwh which corresponds to C02-emissions of 101.363.845 tons every year! (one Kilowatt/hour of conventionally produced electricity corresponds to approx. 500 grams of C02) . Sources for calculation: 1, 2, 3.

Several nuclear plants (like the unfortunate Fukushima in the picture) are currently needed in the world  to provide electricity for base stations and mobile phone chargers. (An "average" nuclear power plant generates about 12.3 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in a year).

Hey! It's peanuts to switch off especially healthy lights compared to the switching of mobile phones and base stations.

There has been some great initiatives like Cell Out. I hope their next round will take place during Earth hour !! Please, join their Facebook group!

 

My Wish to You: During the Earth Hour do not switch off any lights.  

Just keep your mobile phone switched off and this way also the nearest base station uses less energy and causes less health damage. Not to mention effects on nature.

You are free to circulate these ideas! Hopefully in the next Earth Hour also some base stations will be voluntarily shut down by counties and cities.

Speaking In the Wireless Humanity conference, Oslo, Norway

Wireless Humanity - El Symposium Conference, in Oslo, Norway 16th-19th September 2010 .

Special focus on: Brain Research, Building Biology, Power Quality and Electrosensitivity.

Full program: http://www.elsymposium.org/ --> Click 'Program' and select a day. 

 

Update: I was there. Talked about power quality + base stations. (Please, check my previous postings). It was be a nice gathering near Oslo, in relaxed atmosphere :-) Thanks to Ralph-Raphael och Marianne Kleimann (organisers). Norway is fantastic:

My favourite presentations were:

Günther Haffelder: Optimising learning, preventing learning problems

Alexander Popp: Biophotons

 

Perhaps in Autumn 2011 I will again partipate the El Symposium?! Let's see.

Any other similar events in Central, Eastern or Nordic Europe?

Research Inspiration From Russia - Voltage Transients and Health Effects

In April 2010 I had a priviledge to visit Moscow State University. The МГУ campus (picture), excellent medical library (ЦНМБ), RNCNIRP-colleagues and professors at the university inspired me to write a short paper. 

"Voltage transients and possible effects on health  through cell membrane functionality disturbance" (PDF)

Update: This paper was be presented in the 4th International HYVITE Symposium on Wellbeing Technology, 9th June 2010, in Tampere, Finland.

(See also a related slide show).

 

Update 2nd February 2011:

In October 2010 I once again headed to Moscow, to the 6th Radiation Research Conference (VI СЪезд по радиационным исследованиям). This time I was financed by the Finnish Work Environment Fund.  The conference paper & presentation was called:"Voltage Transients and Effect on Health" ("Переходное напряжение и его эффекты на здоровье").

I wrote the paper together with professors Maksim Trushin and Roman Muhin (Kazan State University). It was fascinating, my first research paper in Russian and additionally I presented it in Russian :-)

Professor Yuri Grigoriev (RNCNIRP) was in the audience and provided (again) very valuable comments. I am also thankful to professor Igor Belyaev for raising important questions.

 

Any comments about the research paper or generally about this voltage transients / power quality topic?