X-rays and computers

[James Knott]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> I googled for "computer monitor radiation" (without quotes). The first
> pages that are shown is a mambo-jumbo. There is something about low
> frequency electromagnetic fields from monitor. Silly. Low frequencies
> have no effect at all on health, in this case. There is no mention of
> X-ray radiation! And that one is strong, I have no doubts. X-rays are
> produced when electrons traveling with a high velocity are stopped
> abruptly (thats how it happens in monitors; this is also the physical
> principle how X-rays generators are working).
> 
> 
> Perhaps we should demand that producers of monitors should inform about
> X-rays intensity these monitors generate? Better if they were able to
> provide a 3D map of these intensities.

Production of X-rays requires voltages higher than those permitted in
TVs and monitors.
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