X-rays and computers

[Zbigniew Koziol]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.

No.

 From the physical point of view, there is no borderline betweem safe 
and unsafe. X-rays produced by monitors might be more safe than these 
produced by special devices for X-ray examination at hospital. But we 
still need data about how monitors are safe. There are no such data 
available, as far as I know.

zb.
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