Heat seems like a difficult thing to control for, cuz how are you going to generate radiation constantly without heat? I suppose you could try to heat (more) the other box, too. If they didn't do these experiments simultaneously, that's fucked up. I might change the premise to "does living right next to a WiFi router affect plant growth," because undoubtedly in addition to RF ("radiation") the box is probably giving off some other things as well.
how are you going to generate radiation constantly without heat?
Simple, don't put the WiFi router inside the container with the seeds.
If they didn't do these experiments simultaneously, that's fucked up.
This is what I was saying. Not enough details in the video to tell if they ran the experiments simultaneously or in series. If they did them in series, then that's not a well controlled experiment.
Simple, don't put the WiFi router inside the container with the seeds.
So you're saying, build a Faraday cage around the whole thing -- router and container with seeds -- then put the router outside the container? I'd still be worried about heat due to the router being in the cage. But of course you check on heat and humidity. I think that's the key is to check and equalize.
Faraday cages do not need to be solid walled containers. Your microwave oven has a mesh screen on the door and that keeps the 2.45 GHz waves inside it. Yes they do have some leakage, but it's due to the fact that you can open and close the door and that some emission is coming from the wiring and components outside of the cage. Consider that the leakage is very low even though the power output could be over 1200 Watts. A WiFi router doesn't come anywhere close to that kind of power output.
Edit: Better still, just put the WiFi antenna in the cage. You can use a WiFi router that can take an external antenna and that will solve you heat problem immediately.
Or just put a fan on the router. Just like you do for a PC. Then route the air through a wire mesh (keeping the faraday cage intact so outside signals aren't getting in).
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