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Cell Phone Radiation Chart
Posted by jasoncross in Science on September 28, 2009
The Environmental Working Group has a neat chart online that lists the amount of radiation leaked by most current cell phones. The ranking is in watt per kilogram (a measure of what engineers call “specific absorption rate” or SAR). Bear in mind that the FCC regulation limit is 1.6 W/kg, and there are quite a few phones that get incredibly close and a few that even hit 1.6 W/kg right on the head. That’s 1.6 W/kg measured over a gram of tissue or fluid, by the way.
