RF Safe, associazione americana molto attiva e combattiva sulla lotta all’elettrosmog, propone un Clean Ether Act come legge a favore della salute pubblica e della tecnologia.
Il suo scopo non è abolire le comunicazioni wireless, bensì rimuovere le radiofrequenze non necessarie dalle immediate vicinanze dei bambini, modernizzare la scienza dell’esposizione e spingere il mercato verso una progettazione biologicamente compatibile.
Parte da un confronto con il Clean Air Act non ha imposto alla società di smettere di usare i mezzi di trasporto, ma ha costretto la tecnologia a smettere di rilasciare piombo e altri inquinanti nell’ambiente pubblico. Un Clean Ether Act dovrebbe essere applicato.…
In sintesi
Sostituire la garanzia termica con la protezione biologica nelle specifiche dei limiti di esposizione (ICNIRP)
Compatibilità con Li-Fi
Ripristinare l’autorità locale
Dare al pubblico il diritto di sapere
Ripristinare la ricerca indipendente
Replace thermal assurance with biological protection
Congress should direct EPA, NIEHS, FDA, and FCC to conduct a transparent quantitative RF risk assessment using:
animal cancer evidence; reproductive and developmental toxicity; neurological and sleep endpoints; oxidative and genotoxic evidence; waveform and modulation effects; susceptible-population uncertainty factors; cumulative and multi-source exposure; recovery and chronicity.
Limits should distinguish average energy, peaks, pulse structure, duty cycle, and chronic cumulative exposure. They should be reviewed on a fixed schedule and revised as evidence changes.
Establish child-priority low-RF environments Childcare, K–12 classrooms, pediatric and maternity care, libraries’ children’s spaces, and sleeping areas in publicly supported housing should use:
fiber and Ethernet as the default backbone; wired ports and power at desks, beds, teaching walls, and devices; optical wireless for mobility where appropriate; minimum transmit power and duty cycle; radios off by default when wire or light is available; scheduled low-RF recovery and sleep periods; public documentation of unavoidable exposure.
Mandate Li-Fi compatibility
IEEE ratified the 802.11bb light-communications standard in 2023. Li-Fi uses visible or infrared optical carriers and can provide room-confined, high-bandwidth connectivity without adding microwave traffic.
The Act should require a staged transition in federal procurement:
laptops, tablets, phones, classroom equipment, and medical devices should support IEEE 802.11bb or a vendor-neutral optical interface; new schools, hospitals, childcare facilities, and major renovations should be optical-ready; federal grants should fund multi-vendor pilots and deployment; open standards should prevent vendor lock-in; RF fallback should remain available for emergency, outdoor mobility, accessibility, and legacy needs during transition.
Li-Fi is not required to replace every radio link to transform exposure. Moving routine indoor traffic to fiber, Ethernet, and light would remove a major portion of avoidable close-proximity RF while improving security, spatial reuse, and network control.
Restore local authority
Section 704 should be amended so FCC limits operate as a federal floor, not a ceiling that prevents communities from protecting child-priority spaces. Local rules should remain evidence-based, nondiscriminatory, and technically feasible, while allowing setbacks, lower-power designs, co-location, fiber preference, and optical alternatives.
Local democracy cannot remain gagged by compliance with a standard the federal government has not adequately justified.
Give the public the right to know
Devices should display: which radios are active; current transmit power; duty cycle and proximity state; the distance and configuration used in compliance testing; a low-exposure operating mode; optional privacy-preserving cumulative exposure information.
Fixed facilities should publish operating power, antenna patterns, and time-varying exposure estimates in machine-readable form.
Restore independent research