‘Energy cards’ carry 350 times more radiation than humans can bear

[MaxYakov]

4 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

So far, tests have revealed that the cards contain radioactive metallic elements of uranium and thorium, as well as their “radionuclide” or radioactive isotope.

 

   Germany Technology? 

More like Manhattan Project technology.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Ingesting radioactive material is incredibly dangerous and likely fatal.

So is ingesting huge amounts of farm chemicals sprayed all over your vegetables & fruits but hey ho... that is acceptable in the name of profits of a few shareholders in agro-chemical companies.

These profits are going into the wrong hands and cannot be allowed to continue.

[Baggy]

16 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I got lost years ago when it changed from Rads and Mrads.

P

Place 3 cards in petrol tank of motorcycle, vroom vroom, go like a rocket.

place 30 cards on brake master cylinder, no more brake failure.

[Snackbar]

More fake news

[spidermike007]

Issue one to each of the 250 crony senators at once! They need the energy to be able to do useful work for the nation. Sorry, but being a cousin is not exactly a great qualification. Not something you usually see on a resume! 

 

Thorium is radioactive and can be stored in bones. Because of these facts it has the ability to cause bone cancer many years after the exposure has taken place.

Radioactive isotope, also called radioisotope, radionuclide, or radioactive nuclide, any of several species of the same chemical element with different masses whose nuclei are unstable and dissipate excess energy by spontaneously emitting radiation in the form of alpha, beta and gamma rays. 

[overherebc]

1 minute ago, Baggy said:

Place 3 cards in petrol tank of motorcycle, vroom vroom, go like a rocket.

place 30 cards on brake master cylinder, no more brake failure.

Viagra in the tank gives you faster standing starts.

As a side joke.

What happens when a lawyer takes viagra.

Not a lot, he just gets taller.

[Matzzon]

53 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

After they charge the tobacco companies. 

Guess you missed the piont here. Exposing somebody to radiation is considered a criminal offense. Selling tobacco and cigarettes is not.

Maybe that short info will help you in the future.

[kwonitoy]

52 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I got lost years ago when it changed from Rads and Mrads.

I have to look it up.

I've still got my old slide rule calculator, the cursor always seems to go missing though.

The new apps these days are amazing for figuring shot times, but I don't do that any more either

Auditor only

[overherebc]

12 minutes ago, kwonitoy said:

I have to look it up.

I've still got my old slide rule calculator, the cursor always seems to go missing though.

The new apps these days are amazing for figuring shot times, but I don't do that any more either

Auditor only

Next time in UK I am goimg to try and find an old slide rule.

????

[dallen52]

Just shows how little before the event checking is in place here.

Right down to the thousands of so called beauty products the women are attracted to buying. 

 

"Apply plastic card to side of the head, complete with radioactive isotopes.

No guarantee that it will cure anything, but certain parts of the brain get fried and you will forget about the pain".

[SteveB2]

Meanwhile at Bangkok Police HQ, 72,379 closely packed energy cards stored in a berylium box, receive another a few thousand cards from a recent up country bust.

 

Closing the lid that time was not a good idea... 

 

 

[Monkeyrobot]

Why don’t they use them to power the new submarines. 

[Ebumbu]

Strange. Mine gave me super powers. 

[RBOP]

Just for clarity, 40 microsievert/hour = 350 millisielvert/year. General public annual dose is 1 mSv/yr (NRC). 

[johng50]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

He suggested that local officials should collect these “energy cards” from villagers and send them to his agency for proper disposal. 

Hmmm and resell at a big profit.

[shy coconut]

5 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

Paraquat and Roundup, twice daily before meals  ????????

This is not America, as Bowie used to sing.

[yokat]

Why would they make something actually dangerous when they could just have sold plastic ?

Did they dip those cards in tritium to get a nice glow ?

[kwonitoy]

2 hours ago, overherebc said:

Next time in UK I am goimg to try and find an old slide rule.

????

Now you made me look in my desk, not only with the cursor but also the R factor reference guide

I don't think I've touched this thing in 20 years

[lamyai3]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The distributors claim these cards can improve the immune system, strengthen the heart and energise the user’s metabolism. The also claim the card can purify water if it is briefly soaked in it. 

They've taken all the superstitious aspects of an amulet and packaged them into something with the physical properties of an ATM card. It's hardly surprising the things are so popular... 

[PETERTHEEATER]

The authorities, judging from the reactions and investigation shown on Thai TV News channels, are not too concerned. No one was seen to be wearing a HAZMAT suit.

 

I see so many young Thais struggling with mental arithmetic and instead using a calculator to arrive at the incorrect answer I shudder to think how they will understand Sieverts, Microsieverts and Rems and Microrems.

 

One man appeared on TV News showing two cards tucked into the waistband of his undershorts. Expect a slump in the sales of condoms.

[overherebc]

44 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

The authorities, judging from the reactions and investigation shown on Thai TV News channels, are not too concerned. No one was seen to be wearing a HAZMAT suit.

 

I see so many young Thais struggling with mental arithmetic and instead using a calculator to arrive at the incorrect answer I shudder to think how they will understand Sieverts, Microsieverts and Rems and Microrems.

 

One man appeared on TV News showing two cards tucked into the waistband of his undershorts. Expect a slump in the sales of condoms.

Might be a slump in something else if they slip down a bit.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

Now you made me look in my desk, not only with the cursor but also the R factor reference guide

I don't think I've touched this thing in 20 years

As I got older I had to use this with mine. ????????

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

Now you made me look in my desk, not only with the cursor but also the R factor reference guide

I don't think I've touched this thing in 20 years

We always called them guessing sticks. ????

[skikusa]

Tests on sample cards conducted by the state agency found radiation measuring at 40 microsieverts per hour, which is 350 times higher than the maximum exposure humans should get to radiation a year.

If this is a fact how come there are people still living in the danger zone around Chernoble!?

[BritManToo]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

he agency also warned against drinking water in which an “energy card” has been dipped, as doing so raises the risk of cancer. It said OAP would take legal action against the distributors once it has gathered enough evidence from its tests on the cards.

Which is of course complete BS, unless the radioactive source was exposed and could flake/powder off.

[Ctkong]

9 hours ago, suzannegoh said:

If not for the radiation this would just be an alternative medicine story like any other.  Earlier stories, apparently written before the cards were tested, said that villagers experienced all sorts of health benefits from those cards, with many people claiming they cured chronic pain. 

Cured chronic pain because all nerve endings were damaged by radiation thus feel no more pain.... dead man walking.

[suzannegoh]

14 minutes ago, Ctkong said:

Cured chronic pain because all nerve endings were damaged by radiation thus feel no more pain.... dead man walking.

More likely a placebo effect.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

9 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

where the hell and why would someone selling fake scam health cards get uranium and thorium?

 

That's what I was wondering!!!   I mean, AFAIK, it's not like you can stroll down to the local drug store or chemical supply company, and pick up a batch of either of those materials.  So where DID the cards come from?

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, Jan Dietz said:

 

mSV (milliSievert) is NOT uSV (microSievert), you're off by a factor 1,000. 

So 40x is in the ballpark (and 'armless)

 

Yes... 40 microsieverts per hour, if that's what the cards really emit, is equal to 0.04 millisieverts per hour.

 

And that appears to be double what the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended limit is of 0.02 millisieverts per hour exposure from non natural/medical sources.

 

Quote

 

§ 20.1301 Dose limits for individual members of the public.

(a) Each licensee shall conduct operations so that—
....
(2) The dose in any unrestricted area from external sources, exclusive of the dose contributions from patients administered radioactive material and released in accordance with § 35.75, does not exceed 0.002 rem (0.02 millisievert) in any one hour.

 

 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-1301.html

 

[bangrak]

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Thats extreme.... 

 

The annual limit / dosage for an adult is reported in the above article as being 1 mSv per year.

The average annual dosage of radiation per year in the US is reported as being 3.7 mSv.

 

 

which works out at 0.000422374 mSv per hour...

The cards are reported to emit 40 mSv per hour.

 

The cards are not 40x more radio active, they are 94,703 x (nearly One Hundred Thousand times) more radioactive than the recommended maximum exposure to humans.

 

1 adult chest X-ray is 0.1 mSv

1 adult chest CT scan is 4-7 mSv

 

 

When this 'OAP' information would be true, I guess you would be right. But I have serious doubts about it. First of all: this card thing being a scam based on placebo effect, why would the producers make any kind of effort, and spend quite some money, to acquire(!) radio elements and insert these in the cards...? Second: is there no real official instance involved in radio elements, inside the health department and/or the military?