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Comment by consp

3 months ago

At some point it pretty much becomes a microwave. Radiation get absorbed and turned into heat. On a small scale not very helpful or harmful. On a larger scale nice to heat your food with but not your head.

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nimih  3 months ago

You'd have to be moving pretty fast to red-shift IR radiation into microwaves, I think.

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