Faraday, cellar, etc.

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A short update from me, inspired by recent posts regarding Faraday cage, cellar,

etc.:

Bill, I am unable to recall, but wasn't it you who a year back defended Faraday

cages when I stated they don't work at subjective level, and that they even make

worse, unbearable feeling?! Anyway... my experience with different cages matches

other experiences and even peer reviewed experiments with mice (mice also avoid

such cages, and have immediate massive neurological effects inside). Therefore

before investing in cages (including canopies) please think twice. The issue is

not related to reflection nor such stuff, as I have just demolished a cage room

made of non-reflective material, preferring being radiated to staying inside.

Indeed, as some say, one gets used to such cages, but the price is neurological

depression...

, as you have already experienced, there is no much use of shielding, it's

a waste of money and energy until we have some revolutionary understanding of

the circumstances. But that apparently applies just to classic Faraday cages, as

we had spoken, I have a room 4 meters underground, where soil and concrete are a

kind of a shield, there I don't have much problem. Also, that is not a full

cage, as there is no much concrete overhead.

, as I said, my stay underground matches your experience, I have this

room for almost 10 years, and it is acceptable although not perfect. There are

issues regarding humidity, ventilation etc. but that can be fixed... Also, re

your inquiry, I had once made a very small experimental cage made of bottled

water packages (still I have to drink some of them :-) ), but the effect was

very similar to classic conductive cages.

So as I keep pointing out, we must have in mind that we can not solely relate

our discomfort to meter readings. That doesn't mean I stand for some non

measurable " scalar waves " , although that is one of rather possible hypothesis.

Just I want to say that naive relating to meter readings is a mislead.

Yesterday I tried a metal halide lamp,

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_halide_lamp )

to see how it feels. Classic incandescent bulbs are the best for me, but if not

beaming directly to body. Also, I can tolerate LED lightning. CFL and classic

fluorescent tubes are a big problem, even in another room. But this MH is a

nightmare! I felt it two rooms away! The issue is that there is nothing

significant measurable coming out from that lamp even at a close distance... I

say all this to support my standpoint that meter is just an orientation and

sometimes misleading. By the way, how others of you rank different lightning

technologies?

Also, you might not be familiar with IR heaters,

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_heater )

but they are one of the worst things even for non-sensitive. They are terrible

even hidden behind some object... So again there is an issue what do they emit

in such horrific extent. Not EMFs anyway, EMFs are rather small at a meter away.

Not to mention that our " gadgets " do make effect, while most of them are not

changing any field... By the way, I discovered a new " gadget " - plants! There

was some discussion on the list regarding cacti as a way of protection, but none

had supported such finding much, me neither. I myself had had some cacti, but

never I was so happy like when I recently put a pine and two tropic trees in the

room. Possibly - the bigger the better... Anyway, even my non-sensitive wife

finds it soothing... That could be attributed to classic effects like air

cleaning, but I think there is more to it...

One more contemplation:

Once I put on ceiling of that my underground room - a shield, to make the

mitigation even better, but that was bad, and I removed it, despite it made the

room additionally quiet at the meters. So it remained uncertain to me whether

the conductive layers overhead, such as the one I put, themselves make

discomfort, or that was due to some Faraday cage effect as mentioned above...

Particularly, I suspect that shieldings might work if the top would be missing.

That is still an unsupported and weird assumption, based only on subjective

intuition, but hope to make such experiment soon...

Looking forward to some reactions to my statements!

Drasko