Dude. I want a ray gun. 40 megawatts, handheld, portable.
Go out in a lightning storm and hold up a metal pole. The base units for power are kg*m^2*s^-3. When lightning strikes the amount of power transferred through, say, a helicopter blade is comparable to the amount of power consumed by the whole rest of the United States combined...for a brief period of time. Very brief.
As a matter of fact, confusion about the power vs. energy (hint: the ^-3 vs. the ^-2) is the way 'they' in the telcom industry get around the regulations most of which were set a long time ago for different technologies. They 'average' across a long period of time which does not take into account peak power levels of a pulsed signal.
Think of it this way:
- If over one second I lift you up by the arm to stand on a plank 3 feet above the ground, any problem? Nope.
- now if I use the same amount of energy but put half the power in in the first 0.005th of the second and half the power in at the last 0.005th of the second, what happens? You lose your arm. Ripped right out of the socket. No difference in the amount of energy applied over the one second time frame. Big difference in the effect on the body.
When 'they' rightly point out that a smart meter puts out a pretty modest amount of energy over the course of a day and thus it cannot be harmful, they are being deliberately deceptive. They are not saying that it is in tiny bursts of high magnitude.
You would not even feel an 5.56 round from an AR-15 'assault rifle' if it hit you over the course of a 24 hour period. If I tried to tell you that it's OK to get shot by one because the total energy is minimal compared to that expended in walking up a flight of stairs I would be being deceptive.
