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5G Free Forum: Wireless "small" cells harm all cells! Close proximity antenna radiation!
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Date:
Friday, June 28, 2019
Time:
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Phoebe Sorgen
Location Details:
Sports Basement ground floor community space
2727 Milvia St., south Berkeley.
This is the former Iceland building near Adeline/Shattuck.
2727 Milvia St., south Berkeley.
This is the former Iceland building near Adeline/Shattuck.
Power point presentation and panel discussion featuring health educator Sarah Aminoff, scientist Lloyd Morgan, and former attorney Kelley Hart, followed by audience discussion.
Come learn why there is a movement to ban 5th Generation close proximity "small" cell wireless antennas near schools and residences. Oppose 5G to protect our local bird, pollinator, wildlife, and human populations. Stopping 5G wireless will not prevent the availability of wireless services, but will:
• Protect privacy and security,
• Reduce unsightly and hazardous industrial clutter in our neighborhoods,
• Prevent 5G's exorbitant energy use,
• Minimize harmful health and environmental impacts from radiation,
• Make cities more resilient when disaster strikes by preserving our reliable communication network, and
• Defend local sovereignty and the public interest from Big Telecom greed. Do not fall for industry hype!
Over twenty California cities have passed measures to restrict the 5G rollout. If Big Telecom plans proceed, 5G will adversely affect privacy, safety, property values, weather prediction, etc. There are far superior alternatives, cable and fiber optic, which are more reliable, more secure, faster, and more affordable.
Don't miss the audience discussion that follows the presentation! Bring friends to this important forum and share/forward this notice to people who need info.
About the speakers:
Lloyd Morgan is Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Health Trust, and Director, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the US. He is a retired electronic engineer who has been working on the risks of radio frequency radiation since 1991 and has published peer-reviewed studies on that topic. After helping the city of Berkeley adopt its Cell Phone Right to Know ordinance, he founded Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED) which is on the cusp of getting the city of Berkeley to adopt an ordinance restricting 5G. He is a Board Member of the International EMF (Electromagnetic Frequencies) Alliance and is also a member of the international science organizations, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the European Bioelectromagnetics Association, and the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.
Sarah Aminoff taught freshman first year experience at Sonoma State University and health education at City College of SF, College for Teens, as well as being a K-12 educator. With United Educators of SF, she worked on a safer technology campaign for SF schools in collaboration with Environmental Health Trust's educational campaigns on children's health. She is the EMF Project Coordinator for FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical & Toxics Safety) and is a member of the California Alliance for Safer Technology, a consortium of health and environmental advocates, physicians, nonprofit leaders, attorneys and government officials, as well as Americans for Responsible Technology. Successful campaigns include Sierra Club CA Conservation Committee voting to oppose 5G without environmental review or local control. Ms. Aminoff will add a dynamic power point presentation to the 5G discussion.
Kelley Hart is an independent consultant in the parks and recreation field, primarily helping non-profits and local governments plan transformative projects for their park systems or expand land conservation holdings. She worked for thirteen years for The Trust for Public Land, most recently as the head of its national planning team. Prior to that, she worked at UCLA School of Law as a staff attorney. Though she is not currently practicing law, she has been researching local ordinances and other solutions to stop 5G until proven safe because she is extremely concerned about the health impacts of millimeter wave radiation. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and son.
Ellen Marks (tentative), founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, helped achieve Berkeley's ground-breaking and life-saving Cell Phone Right to Know ordinance.
Phoebe Sorgen, former Berkeley Commissioner and cofounder of WiRED, will facilitate the discussion.
FREE! Wheelchair accessible.
(Inaccessible to EMF sensitive people, regrettably. Attendees will be admonished to put cell phones on airplane mode, but there is wifi throughout the building, needed by employees.)
Event endorsed by Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED), Berkeley Citizens Action (BCA), Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee.
Come learn why there is a movement to ban 5th Generation close proximity "small" cell wireless antennas near schools and residences. Oppose 5G to protect our local bird, pollinator, wildlife, and human populations. Stopping 5G wireless will not prevent the availability of wireless services, but will:
• Protect privacy and security,
• Reduce unsightly and hazardous industrial clutter in our neighborhoods,
• Prevent 5G's exorbitant energy use,
• Minimize harmful health and environmental impacts from radiation,
• Make cities more resilient when disaster strikes by preserving our reliable communication network, and
• Defend local sovereignty and the public interest from Big Telecom greed. Do not fall for industry hype!
Over twenty California cities have passed measures to restrict the 5G rollout. If Big Telecom plans proceed, 5G will adversely affect privacy, safety, property values, weather prediction, etc. There are far superior alternatives, cable and fiber optic, which are more reliable, more secure, faster, and more affordable.
Don't miss the audience discussion that follows the presentation! Bring friends to this important forum and share/forward this notice to people who need info.
About the speakers:
Lloyd Morgan is Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Health Trust, and Director, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the US. He is a retired electronic engineer who has been working on the risks of radio frequency radiation since 1991 and has published peer-reviewed studies on that topic. After helping the city of Berkeley adopt its Cell Phone Right to Know ordinance, he founded Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED) which is on the cusp of getting the city of Berkeley to adopt an ordinance restricting 5G. He is a Board Member of the International EMF (Electromagnetic Frequencies) Alliance and is also a member of the international science organizations, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the European Bioelectromagnetics Association, and the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.
Sarah Aminoff taught freshman first year experience at Sonoma State University and health education at City College of SF, College for Teens, as well as being a K-12 educator. With United Educators of SF, she worked on a safer technology campaign for SF schools in collaboration with Environmental Health Trust's educational campaigns on children's health. She is the EMF Project Coordinator for FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical & Toxics Safety) and is a member of the California Alliance for Safer Technology, a consortium of health and environmental advocates, physicians, nonprofit leaders, attorneys and government officials, as well as Americans for Responsible Technology. Successful campaigns include Sierra Club CA Conservation Committee voting to oppose 5G without environmental review or local control. Ms. Aminoff will add a dynamic power point presentation to the 5G discussion.
Kelley Hart is an independent consultant in the parks and recreation field, primarily helping non-profits and local governments plan transformative projects for their park systems or expand land conservation holdings. She worked for thirteen years for The Trust for Public Land, most recently as the head of its national planning team. Prior to that, she worked at UCLA School of Law as a staff attorney. Though she is not currently practicing law, she has been researching local ordinances and other solutions to stop 5G until proven safe because she is extremely concerned about the health impacts of millimeter wave radiation. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and son.
Ellen Marks (tentative), founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, helped achieve Berkeley's ground-breaking and life-saving Cell Phone Right to Know ordinance.
Phoebe Sorgen, former Berkeley Commissioner and cofounder of WiRED, will facilitate the discussion.
FREE! Wheelchair accessible.
(Inaccessible to EMF sensitive people, regrettably. Attendees will be admonished to put cell phones on airplane mode, but there is wifi throughout the building, needed by employees.)
Event endorsed by Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED), Berkeley Citizens Action (BCA), Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee.
For more information:
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1st come 1st get at the 5G FREE Forum: copies of an excellent, very informative book w/ comprehensive info re wireless in general, plus 5G and IoT (the Internet of Things you didn't ask for and don't want!) and the history of how we got into this mess (FCC is an agency captured by Big Telecom.) "Re-Inventing Wires" by Dr. Timothy Schoechle, published by the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy. (As a public service, it is also available online.)
For more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQDUsPRJV...
The Green Party of Alameda County endorses this event after hosting a similar forum on June 9 as a "Green Sunday." Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 5pm, usually at the Niebyl-Proctor Library, north Oakland.
The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 6:45 pm. Council meetings are open to everyone who is interested.
Copper cable and fiber optics are superior to 5G close proximity wireless in every way, including using far less energy and posing no danger to bees, trees, and other beings. So the Ca Sierra Club has opposed 5G.
Here's info from "Re-Inventing Wires" by Tim Schoechle PhD. Below that, an industry white paper! They admit that 5G is an energy glutton!
pg 69-73: Explosion in electricity consumption associated w/ operation/manufacture of internet communication networking, approaching 5-10% of world electricity supply, predicted to grow to 20% or even 50% of global supply by 2030. The average iPhone uses more energy than a midsize refrigerator (361 kW-h/year including connections, data usage, battery charging v 322 kW-h/year.) Data centers are warehouse-scale supercomputers that consume prodigious amounts of energy. "The Cloud begins with Coal: Big Data, Big Networks, Big Infrastructure, & Big Power--An Overview of the Electricity Used by the Global Digital Ecosystem" showed dramatic growth in IT energy consumption.
The CEET report showed the main culprit as being wireless access networks, with wireless video being the biggest energy user.
In the year 2012, the wireless cloud consumed 9.2 TWh with a carbon footprint increase equivalent to 6 megatons of CO2.
By 2015, it was up 460% to 43 TWh (30 magatons of CO2,) equivalent to nearly 5 million cars, 90% of the increase being due to wireless access network technologies. (Data centers accounted for only 9% of the increase.)
3 pages of text = 0.3 megabytes
1 high resolution JPEG image = 3 MB
1 eight minute cat video = 30 MB
Interactive video/audio requires more energy to avoid latency/delay.
Too few people know that copper is NOT obsolete (quite the contrary) and that the Internet's core networks are already entirely based on optical fiber. However, the local access network (LAN) -- which is the last hop to the home or business -- is what we're talking about. A wired connection (DSL, cable, or fiber) is the most energy efficient method to access the network. Wireless access via WiFi increases the energy use, but only slightly. With wireless access via a cellular network, however, energy use soars. Wireless traffic via 3G uses 15 times more energy than WiFi; 4G uses 23 times more.
And for what? Advertising botnets were estimated to make up 33% - 50% of all Internet traffic in 2016. By some estimates, over half of all internet traffic is fraudulent.
*INDUSTRY white paper documents 5G raising energy costs, "significantly more energy intensive."
Vertiv 5G Report: Telco Industry Hopes and Fears FROM ENERGY COSTS TO EDGE COMPUTING
TRANSFORMATION 2019
Under Key findings:
"5G is going to be significantly more energy-intensive than previous generations of wireless connectivity.... A whopping 94% of our survey respondents indicated that they
expected overall energy costs to increase...
"The impact of distributed 5G infrastructure on energy consumption will be vast...
Under recommendations: "Order an energy audit ahead of 5G rollout to ensure site-level readiness...
An internal analysis by Vertiv discovered that "the move to 5G is likely to increase total network energy consumption by 150% to 170% by 2026."
- Read the Report, Telco Industry Hopes and Fears
- Read Press release Vertiv and 451 Research Release New Report on 5G Preparedness and Technical Enablers:
*With
5G Deployments Advancing Rapidly, Operators Share Plans for Dealing with Increasing Densification, Higher Energy Consumption*
- Read 2/2019 "5G is likely to increase total network energy consumption by 150 to 170 per cent by 2026"
Read *more reports that show increased energy consumption* from wireless expansion at the EHT webpage at Reports on the Increasing Energy Use of Wireless Systems and Digital Ecosystem
Also see Katie Singers' new book: *Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: New Views of the Internet, Energy Use, Toxic Waste and Climate Change"
*
The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 6:45 pm. Council meetings are open to everyone who is interested.
Copper cable and fiber optics are superior to 5G close proximity wireless in every way, including using far less energy and posing no danger to bees, trees, and other beings. So the Ca Sierra Club has opposed 5G.
Here's info from "Re-Inventing Wires" by Tim Schoechle PhD. Below that, an industry white paper! They admit that 5G is an energy glutton!
pg 69-73: Explosion in electricity consumption associated w/ operation/manufacture of internet communication networking, approaching 5-10% of world electricity supply, predicted to grow to 20% or even 50% of global supply by 2030. The average iPhone uses more energy than a midsize refrigerator (361 kW-h/year including connections, data usage, battery charging v 322 kW-h/year.) Data centers are warehouse-scale supercomputers that consume prodigious amounts of energy. "The Cloud begins with Coal: Big Data, Big Networks, Big Infrastructure, & Big Power--An Overview of the Electricity Used by the Global Digital Ecosystem" showed dramatic growth in IT energy consumption.
The CEET report showed the main culprit as being wireless access networks, with wireless video being the biggest energy user.
In the year 2012, the wireless cloud consumed 9.2 TWh with a carbon footprint increase equivalent to 6 megatons of CO2.
By 2015, it was up 460% to 43 TWh (30 magatons of CO2,) equivalent to nearly 5 million cars, 90% of the increase being due to wireless access network technologies. (Data centers accounted for only 9% of the increase.)
3 pages of text = 0.3 megabytes
1 high resolution JPEG image = 3 MB
1 eight minute cat video = 30 MB
Interactive video/audio requires more energy to avoid latency/delay.
Too few people know that copper is NOT obsolete (quite the contrary) and that the Internet's core networks are already entirely based on optical fiber. However, the local access network (LAN) -- which is the last hop to the home or business -- is what we're talking about. A wired connection (DSL, cable, or fiber) is the most energy efficient method to access the network. Wireless access via WiFi increases the energy use, but only slightly. With wireless access via a cellular network, however, energy use soars. Wireless traffic via 3G uses 15 times more energy than WiFi; 4G uses 23 times more.
And for what? Advertising botnets were estimated to make up 33% - 50% of all Internet traffic in 2016. By some estimates, over half of all internet traffic is fraudulent.
*INDUSTRY white paper documents 5G raising energy costs, "significantly more energy intensive."
Vertiv 5G Report: Telco Industry Hopes and Fears FROM ENERGY COSTS TO EDGE COMPUTING
TRANSFORMATION 2019
Under Key findings:
"5G is going to be significantly more energy-intensive than previous generations of wireless connectivity.... A whopping 94% of our survey respondents indicated that they
expected overall energy costs to increase...
"The impact of distributed 5G infrastructure on energy consumption will be vast...
Under recommendations: "Order an energy audit ahead of 5G rollout to ensure site-level readiness...
An internal analysis by Vertiv discovered that "the move to 5G is likely to increase total network energy consumption by 150% to 170% by 2026."
- Read the Report, Telco Industry Hopes and Fears
- Read Press release Vertiv and 451 Research Release New Report on 5G Preparedness and Technical Enablers:
*With
5G Deployments Advancing Rapidly, Operators Share Plans for Dealing with Increasing Densification, Higher Energy Consumption*
- Read 2/2019 "5G is likely to increase total network energy consumption by 150 to 170 per cent by 2026"
Read *more reports that show increased energy consumption* from wireless expansion at the EHT webpage at Reports on the Increasing Energy Use of Wireless Systems and Digital Ecosystem
Also see Katie Singers' new book: *Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: New Views of the Internet, Energy Use, Toxic Waste and Climate Change"
*
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