[LINK] Fwd: (-: phone poll

[Adam Todd]

Actually, I forgot to mention before that this was tested on Braniac 
(UK version of Mythbusters) about two years ago.

They actually stacked 100 mobile phones, although I think their test 
was based on the phones ringing, not actually in connections.



At 08:50 PM 19/06/2007, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Sorry, Jan, but a number of website claim it's a hoax.
>http://www.joewein.net/hoax/hoax-cook-egg-with-cellphone.htm
>
>A cell phone battery doesn't actually carry enough charge to heat an 
>egg to the required temperature.
>
>Skip the following figures if you don't care for physics:
>A fairly average 3.6V mobile phone battery stores 730 mAh, which is 
>2,6 Wh (Watt hours) of electric energy. This is 1.7 kcal or enough 
>to warm a 60g egg by 28 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit). In other 
>words, if all the energy used by the cell phone was converted into 
>microwave energy (a lot of the electricity warms the silicon in the 
>electronics and the display and thus just warms the handset) and all 
>that energy were to radiate *only* at the egg and in no other 
>direction, the egg would barely reach body temperature before the 
>battery goes dead. In practice only a fraction of the energy would 
>turn into microwave radiation that warms the egg. The numbers simply 
>don't add up. Given the known specification of mobile phone 
>batteries and the laws of physics it's doubtful if even dozens of 
>mobile phones piled around it were capable of boiling an egg.