Ah, the old microwave. Reminds me of when I was thinking about using one to heat water in a distiller. This was a senior design project, and the catch was that the water had to be boiled by human power only. In my early brainstorming for ideas, I was thinking about a microwave. So, I found a microwave blog for microwave engineers, and asked them the beginner questions of energy efficiency etc. They helped me realize early on that a human powered microwave is not a great idea. But, the funny thing I found on the blog was some guy trying to show the error of all these microwave engineers. He claimed that microwave food was bad because of the radiation. He sighted "case studies" of people dying, like someone dying from microwaved blood (some person needed a blood transfusion, the doctor microwaved the blood to room temp, the patient died afterwards, the death was blamed on the microwave, not the fact that the person needed a blood transfusion for some reason). The whole thing reminded me of our di-hydrogen monoxide discussion. Moral of the story, I guess it is hard for some people to understand what really is "radiation". <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />