Does EMF-responsive paint exist?

swimming naked when the tide goes out — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:07:42 -0800

I'm looking for a material I'm not sure exists. I want a plastic (or even better, a paint) that glows (at all) in response to being in an electromagnetic field. Please tell me...does this exist? I'm willing to accept "exists but costs eleventy-billion dollars a microgram" answers as well. Thanks!

Is it safe to live directly underneath a large number of radio and/or cell towers?

lorimer — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:24:04 -0800

Is it safe to live directly underneath a large number of radio and/or cell towers? My friend wants to move into a building where she would be living on the 20th floor (there are 21 floors) and all along the roof are a LOT of antennas. (This building is on a hill and is the tallest point anywhere around.)

Other mefi threads contain good, long debates about this issue but they are all from the perspective of someone living beside, rather than right below, the towers.

I don't know whether the antennas are radio only or radio and cell. From googling the building address I assume at least some are radio (since one result is a report of a company being cited for moving their radio tower from another building to this building without a permit). According to cellreception.com, there are no *FCC-registered* cell towers there, but that site says "The FCC does not require every antenna structure to be registered, and the map may or may not list all the towers in the area."

Thanks for your thoughts, pro or con, or any advice about researching building addresses to see what antennas are on them!

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