How do I enhance my Earthing experience? Watch the videos, or read some text...
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# bruno70on 16 Jul 2014 at 12:12 am
The other day the electricity in the house was shut down unexpectedly..The local Electricity co. was carrying some kind of work in the neighborhood and I had received a letter to that effect but had plainly forgotten about it.
I was watching TV and in my bed at the time and suddenly I felt something different and strange when the TV and the electricity was shut off.. My dog Bella who was on the floor in the bedroom also must have felt this something as her ears pricked up and she was looking around curious that something had happened.
Now I have experienced Electricity shut downs before so it was nothing new to me but for some reason this one seemed different. As I lay in bed thinking why am I feeling this way its only an Electricity shut down, nothing to get excited about , I spotted a voltage multi -meter next to my bed and decide to measure myself.
Being an earthing enthusiast I would often measure myself both earthed and not earthed.
Normally if I was not earthed I would record 1.835 to 2.000 volts at different times.
In this case with the Electricity switched off I was surprised to read a near zero voltage. I read the meter a few times to make certain that I was taking the correct reading.
I then pondered to myself and said where had that normal voltage of 1.835 to 2.000 volt disappeared to. Is it normal that our bodies are meant to be close to zero Voltage as the meter had shown once I had a total electricity shutdown?????? Was that my natural state.?????
So the question I ask ,namely if my natural state is near Zero Voltage is the 1.835 + voltage that I normally carry around detrimental to my health in the long run?????? ( Or helpful for that matter)
I think this is what earthing is about, questioning the natural voltage that our bodies should have.
Clint Ober would say, that when you are earthed ( a near zero voltage of the body)
you sleep deeper and for most people especially older persons it helps to deaden or clear their aches and pains.
The proof is in the pudding by taking action and doing it. Its free and you can either walk barefoot or you can earth yourself whilst you sleep. All it takes is an earthing stake, a small piece of wire and a computer static bracelet to do test it. $20 material at your local hardware store.
Since it accessible to everyone and its free, who would you believe, the experts who may be defending a multi billion dollar industry, or curious persons that have dared to check it out for themselves and seen that it works for them.
Good place to start is http://earthinginstitute.net/faqs/ and there are many videos on You tube
that can also enlighten you to be more curious of a perfectly normal fact of nature.
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From a fellow Nuk Bunker guy in TN
EMP. The letters spell burnt out computers and other
electrical systems and perhaps even a return to the
dark ages if it were to mark the beginning of a
nuclear war. But it doesn't need to be that way. Once
you understand EMP, you can take a few simple
precautions to protect yourself and equipment from it.
In fact, you can enjoy much of the "high tech" life
style you've come accustomed to even after the use of
a nuclear device has been used by terrorists, or there
is an all-out WWIII.
EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse), also sometimes known as
"NEMP" (Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse), was kept
secret from the public for a long time and was first
discovered more or less by accident when US Military
tests of nuclear weapons started knocking out phone
banks and other equipment miles from ground zero.
EMP is no longer "top secret" but information about it
is still a little sketchy and hard to come by. Adding
to the problems is the fact that its effects are hard
to predict; even electronics designers have to test
their equipment in powerful EMP simulators before they
can be sure it is really capable of with standing the
effect.
EMP occurs with all nuclear explosions. With smaller
explosions the effects are less pronounced. Nuclear
bursts close to the ground are dampened by the earth
so that EMP effects are more or less confined to the
region of the blast and heat wave. But EMP becomes
more pronounced and wide spread as the size and
altitude of a nuclear blast is increased since the
ground; of these two, altitude is the quickest way to
produce greater EMP effects. As a nuclear device is
exploded higher up, the earth soaks up fewer of the
free electrons produced before they can travel some
distance.
The most "enhanced" EMP effects would occur if a
nuclear weapon were exploded in space, outside the
Earth's atmosphere. In such a case, the gamma
radiation released during the flash cycle of the
weapon would react with the upper layer of the earth's
atmosphere and strip electrons free from the air
molecules, producing electromagnetic radiation similar
to broad-band radio waves (10 kHz-100 MHz) in the
process. These electrons would follow the earth's
magnetic field and quickly circle toward the ground
where they would be finally dampened. (To add to the
confusion, we now have two more EMP terms:
"Surface EMP" or "SEMP" which refers to ground bursts
with limited-range effects and "High-altitude EMP" or
"HEMP" which is the term used for a nuclear detonation
creating large amounts of EMP.)
Tactically, a space-based nuclear attack has a lot
going for it; the magnetic field of the earth tends to
spread out EMP so much that just one 20-MT bomb
exploded at an altitude of 200 miles could--in
theory--blanket the continental US with the effects of
EMP. It's believed that the electrical surge of the
EMP from such an explosion would be strong enough to
knock out much of the civilian electrical equipment
over the whole country. Certainly this is a lot of
"bang for the buck" and it would be foolish to think
that a nuclear attack would be launched without taking
advantage of the confusion a high-altitude explosion
could create. Ditto with its use by terrorists should
the technology to get such payloads into space become
readily available to smaller countries and groups.
But there's no need for you to go back to the
stone-age if a nuclear war occurs. It is possible to
avoid much of the EMP damage that could be done to
electrical equipment--including the computer that
brought this article to you--with just a few simple
precautions.
First of all, it's necessary to get rid of a few
erroneous facts, however.
One mistaken idea is that EMP is like a powerful bolt
of lightning. While the two are alike in their end
results--burning out electrical equipment with intense
electronic surges--EMP is actually more akin to a
super-powerful radio wave. Thus, strategies based on
using lightning arrestors or lightning-rod grounding
techniques are destined to failure in protecting
equipment from EMP.
Another false concept is that EMP "out of the blue"
will fry your brain and/or body the way lightning
strikes do. In the levels created by a nuclear weapon,
it would not pose a health hazard to plants, animals,
or man PROVIDED it isn't concentrated.
EMP can be concentrated. That could happen if it were
"pulled in" by a stretch of metal. If this happened,
EMP would be dangerous to living things. It could
become concentrated by metal girders, large stretches
of wiring (including telephone lines), long antennas,
or similar set ups. So--if a nuclear war were in the
offing--you'd do well to avoid being very close to
such concentrations. (A safe distance for
nuclear-generated EMP would be at least 8 feet from
such stretches of metal.)
This concentration of EMP by metal wiring is one
reason that most electrical equipment and telephones
would be destroyed by the electrical surge. It isn't
that the equipment itself is really all that
sensitive, but that the surge would be so concentrated
that nothing working on low levels of electricity
would survive.
Protecting electrical equipment is simple if it can be
unplugged from AC outlets, phone systems, or long
antennas. But that assumes that you won't be using it
when the EMP strikes. That isn't all that practical
and--if a nuclear war were drawn out or an attack
occurred in waves spread over hours or days-- you'd
have to either risk damage to equipment or do without
it until things had settled down for sure.
One simple solution is to use battery-operated
equipment which has cords or antennas of only 30
inches or less in length. This short stretch of metal
puts the device within the troughs of the
nuclear-generated EMP wave and will keep the equipment
?from getting a damaging concentration of electrons.
Provided the equipment isn't operated close to some
other metal object (i.e., within 8 feet of a metal
girder, telephone line, etc.), it should survive
without any other precautions being taken with it.
If you don't want to buy a wealth of batteries for
every appliance you own or use a radio set up with
longer than 30-inch antenna, then you'll need to use
equipment that is "hardened" against EMP.
The trick is that it must REALLY be hardened from the
real thing, not just EMP-proof on paper. This isn't
all that easy; the National Academy of Sciences
recently stated that tailored hardening is "not only
deceptively difficult, but also very poorly understood
by the defense-electronics community." Even the US
Military has equipment which might not survive a
nuclear attack, even though it is designed to do just
that.
That said, there are some methods which will help to
protect circuits from EMP and give you an edge if you
must operate ham radios or the like when a nuclear
attack occurs. Design considerations include the use
of tree formation circuits (rather than standard loop
formations); the use of induction shielding around
components; the use of self-contained battery packs;
the use of loop antennas; and (with solid-state
components) the use of Zener diodes. These design
elements can eliminate the chance an EMP surge from
power lines or long antennas damaging your equipment.
Another useful strategy is to use grounding wires for
each separate instrument which is coupled into a
system so that EMP has more paths to take in grounding
itself.
A new device which may soon be on the market holds
promise in allowing electronic equipment to be EMP
hardened. Called the "Ovonic threshold device", it has
been created by Energy Conversion Devices of Troy, MI.
The Ovonic threshold device is a solid-state switch
capable of quickly opening a path to ground when a
circuit receives a massive surge of EMP. Use of this
or a similar device would assure survival of equipment
during a massive surge of electricity.
Some electrical equipment is innately EMP-resistant.
This includes large electric motors, vacuum tube
equipment, electrical generators, transformers,
relays, and the like. These might even survive a
massive surge of EMP and would likely to survive if a
few of the above precautions were taking in their
design and deployment.
At the other end of the scale of EMP resistance are
some really sensitive electrical parts. These include
IC circuits, microwave transistors, and Field Effect
Transistors (FET's). If you have electrical equipment
with such components, it must be very well protected
if it is to survive EMP.
One "survival system" for such sensitive equipment is
the Faraday box.
A Faraday box is simply a metal box designed to divert
and soak up the EMP. If the object placed in the box
is insulated from the inside surface of the box, it
will not be effected by the EMP traveling around the
outside metal surface of the box. The Faraday box
simple and cheap and often provides more protection to
electrical components than "hardening" through circuit
designs which can't be (or haven't been) adequately
tested.
Many containers are suitable for make-shift Faraday
boxes: cake boxes, ammunition containers, metal filing
cabinets, etc., etc., can all be used. Despite what
you may have read or heard, these boxes do NOT have to
be airtight due to the long wave length of EMP; boxes
can be made of wire screen or other porous metal.
The only two requirements for protection with a
Faraday box are: (1) the equipment inside the box does
NOT touch the metal container (plastic, wadded paper,
or cardboard can all be used to insulate it from the
metal) and (2) the metal shield is continuous without
any gaps between pieces or extra-large holes in it.
Grounding a Faraday box is NOT necessary and in some
cases actually may be less than ideal. While EMP and
lightning are not the "same animal", a good example of
how lack of grounding is a plus can be seen with some
types of lightning strikes. Take, for example, a
lightning strike on a flying airplane. The strike
doesn't fry the plane's occupants because the metal
shell of the plane is a Faraday box of sorts. Even
though the plane, high over the earth, isn't grounded
it will sustain little damage.
In this case, much the same is true of small Faraday
cages and EMP. Consequently, storage of equipment in
Faraday boxes on wooden shelves or the like does NOT
require that everything be grounded. {One note:
theoretically non-grounded boxes might hold a slight
charge of electricity; take some time and care before
handling ungrounded boxes following a nuclear attack.}
The thickness of the metal shield around the Faraday
box isn't of much concern, either. This makes it
possible to build protection "on the cheap" by simply
using the cardboard packing box that equipment comes
in along with aluminum foil. Just wrap the box with
the aluminum foil (other metal foil or metal screen
will also work); tape the foil in place and you're
done. Provided it is kept dry, the cardboard will
insulate the gear inside it from the foil; placing the
foil-wrapped box inside a larger cardboard box is also
wise to be sure the foil isn't accidentally ripped
anywhere. The result is an "instant" Faraday box with
your equipment safely stored inside, ready for use
following a nuclear war.
Copper or aluminum foil can help you insulate a whole
room from EMP as well. Just paper the wall, ceiling
and floor with metal foil. Ideally the floor is then
covered with a false floor of wood or with heavy
carpeting to insulate everything and everyone inside
from the shield (and EMP). The only catch to this is
that care must be taken NOT to allow electrical wiring
connections to pierce the foil shield (i.e., no AC
powered equipment or radio antennas can come into the
room from outside). Care must also be taken that the
door is covered with foil AND electrically connected
to the shield with a wire and screws or some similar
set up.
Many government civil defense shelters are now said to
have gotten the Faraday box, "foil" treatment. These
shelters are covered inside with metal foil and have
metal screens which cover all air vents and are
connected to the metal foil. Some of these shelters
probably make use of new optical fibre
systems--protected by plastic pipe--to "connect"
communications gear inside the room to the "outside
world" without creating a conduit for EMP energy to
enter the shelter.
Another "myth" that seems to have grown up with
information on EMP is that nearly all cars and trucks
would be "knocked out" by EMP. This seems logical, but
is one of those cases where "real world" experiments
contradict theoretical answers and I'm afraid this is
the case with cars and EMP. According to sources
working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cars have
proven to be resistant to EMP in actual tests using
nuclear weapons as well as during more recent tests
(with newer cars) with the US Military's EMP
simulators.
One reason for the ability of a car to resist EMP lies
in the fact that its metal body is "insulated" by its
rubber tires from the ground. This creates a Faraday
cage of sorts. (Drawing on the analogy of EMP being
similar to lightning, it is interesting to note that
cases of lightning striking and damaging cars is
almost non-existent; this apparently carries over to
EMP effects on vehicles as well.)
Although Faraday boxes are generally made so that what
is inside doesn't touch the box's outer metal shield
(and this is especially important for the
do-it-yourself since it is easy to inadvertently
ground the Faraday box--say by putting the box on
metal shelving sitting on a concrete floor), in the
case of the car the "grounded" wiring is grounded only
to the battery. In practice, the entire system is not
grounded in the traditional electrical wiring sense of
actually making contact to the earth at some point in
its circuitry. Rather the car is sitting on insulators
made of rubber.
It is important to note that cars are NOT 100 percent
EMP proof; some cars will most certainly be effected,
especially those with fibreglass bodies or located
near large stretches of metal. (I suspect, too, that
recent cars with a high percentage of IC circuitry
might also be more susceptible to EMP effects.)
The bottom line is that all vehicles probably won't be
knocked out by EMP. But the prudent survivalist should
make a few contingency plans "just in case" his car
(and other electrical equipment) does not survive the
effects of EMP. Discovering that you have one of the
few cars knocked out would not be a good way to start
the onset of terrorist attack or nuclear war.
Most susceptible to EMP damage would be cars with a
lot of IC circuits or other "computers" to control
essential changes in the engine. The very prudent may
wish to buy spare electronic ignition parts and keep
them a car truck (perhaps inside a Faraday box). But
it seems probable that many vehicles WILL be working
following the start of a nuclear war even if no
precautions have been taken with them.
One area of concern are explosives connected to
electrical discharge wiring or designed to be set off
by other electric devices. These might be set off by
an EMP surge. While most citizens don't have access to
such equipment, claymore mines and other explosives
would be very dangerous to be around at the start of a
nuclear box if they weren't carefully stored away in a
Faraday box. Ammunition, mines, grenades and the like
in large quantities might be prone to damage or
explosion by EMP, but in general aren't all that
sensitive to EMP.
A major area of concern when it comes to EMP is
nuclear reactors located in the US. Unfortunately, a
little-known Federal dictum prohibits the NRC from
requiring power plants to withstand the effects of a
nuclear war. This means that, in the event of a
nuclear war, many nuclear reactors' control systems
might will be damaged by an EMP surge. In such a case,
the core-cooling controls might become inoperable and
a core melt down and breaching of the containment
vessel by radioactive materials into the surrounding
area might well result. (If you were needing a reason
not to live down wind from a nuclear reactor, this is
it.)
Provided you're not next door to a nuclear power
plant, most of the ill effects of EMP can be over
come. EMP, like nuclear blasts and fallout, can be
survived if you have the know how and take a few
precautions before hand.
And that would be worth a lot, wouldn't it?
Some initial thoughts on EMP protection from the US
military packaging division.
A continuously sealed metal barrier has proven to be
very effective in preventing EM/HPM energy from
reaching susceptible electronic or explosive
components. Exterior packaging fabricated from
plastic, wood or other fiber materials provides almost
no protection form EM/HPM threats. The metal enclosure
can be very thin provided there are no openings
(tears, pin holes, doors, incomplete seams) that would
allow microwaves to enter. Sealed barrier bags that
incorporate a thin layer of aluminum foil and are
primarily used to provide water vapor proof protection
to an item, can add a great deal of resistance to
EM/HPM penetration.
A number of cylindrical and rectangular steel
containers have been developed by the Packaging
Division for a wide range of munitions, weapon systems
and associated components. The cylindrical containers
are end opening and the rectangular containers are top
opening. All the containers have synthetic rubber
gaskets that allow them to maintain a +3 psi
environmental seal to the outside environment. The
containers are constructed using seam welding to
provide for continuous metal contact on all surfaces
of the body assembly. The cover openings have been
held to a minimum and the sealing gaskets positioned
in a manner to allow overlapping metal parts to add
additional protection to these areas. Microwaves are
very adept at bouncing around and working their way
into even the smallest opening. Tests of the
cylindrical and rectangular steel containers used by
this organization have demonstrated a high level of
protection in preventing EM/HPM energy from entering
the container.
The key is to use a metal enclosure and eliminate or
minimize any openings. Where openings are needed they
should be surrounded to the greatest extent possible
by continuous metal and in the case of a gasket, metal
sheathing or mesh can be placed around the elastometer
material or conductive metal molded into the gasket.
The closer the surrounding container comes to a
continuous metal skin the more protection that will be
provided.
High quality gaskets, utilizing either a mesh or
embedded conductive metal design, are very expensive.
They add a magnitude of cost to a normal gasket and
can easily double the price of a container similar to
the ones mentioned above.
Comment by Ghrt...
Bear in mind that elections are exactly what electrical
current is made of. The negatively charged electrons are
defined that way. EMP is more related to light than to
particulates like electrons. (High energy electrons,
those given off in radioactive decay or fission are the
constituents of beta rays. It is worth the note that as
these high energy beta slow down, they also give up
energy in the form of gamma; that is, photon radiation
as well.) The article above tells what the electrons do
when loosed by a nuke.) Light is made of photons, and
they behave like gamma radiation (which is nothing more
than a different frequency than light) and radio waves
are different again. But photons are capable of all sorts
of mayhem, and are difficult to shield against. The
principal mode of damage comes from interaction between
the photons (gamma) and how they interact with something
on the way thru. The gamma absorption (and resultant decay)
can release electrons which do the damage. The idea of EMP
shielding is to prevent the pulse from getting into the
sensitive materials and bust loose a batch of high energy
beta (electrons) which will wreak havoc in whatever material
they get loose within. A Faraday cage simply stalls radio
(and higher) frequency pulses and gives them a place to
interact and release beta which is then grounded. This is
a bit of an oversimplification, but it is close enough to use.
Also worth noting that it is possible to take conductors thru
an EMP shield, but it is pretty sophisticated means and methods.
Wave guides are one way, but they require very careful tuning
and filtering to work without allowing damage to the xmitter/receiver.