>>14038455Well... not as much as you think it might.
You can't really say how much dielectric would occur in certain distance range because it depends too much on the environment. You typically model these things... I can give you some comforting ballpark figures tho.
A typical car can spew heat up to about 150kW. So even assuming somehow all EM radiation from 5G antennas would be dissipated as heat in 30m-ish radius, heating from 1.5kW 5G antenna would be comparable to the heating from having a car or two pass by every minute or so, probably much less than that.
Most of the heating in general would be occurring in a few centimeters range though... because although their efficiency is impressive compared to some older antennas, 5G antenna's conversion efficiency is still about 50%. the rest just heats up the utilities and the pole and into the ground and the air directly next to it. Dialectic heating is from the other half that's spreading out of the antenna as EM wave.
I actually don't know what percentage of it would be absorbed when a typical human body tho, someone with more spare time can do the math with a cylinder of water...
But the bottom line here is that a few kW is barely anything, environmental heating wise...
Ah, another way to look at it is, solar irradiance is about 300~500W/sqm, so say, looking at 30m radius area around the antenna, 900sqm, the heat coming from it is like ~1% additional heating from the sun over 24 hours. Maybe not negligible, but close.
