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Electrical Shielding for the Homeowner?
AugstWest asks: "As more research comes out showing that high voltage electricity sources can cause cancer and other health problems, I was wondering what the geeks among us could come up with for electrical shielding ideas. I've got a high-voltage transformer just off my backyard to power the train that also runs practically through my backyard, and it would be nice if I could somehow shield us from it. Of course, if the shield could also be an induction coil to sap power for my house, that wouldn't suck either..."
Easy, build one of these.
Of course, you could also cover your body with aluminium foil, that way, you'll be protected when you leave your house too!
Tin foil hat...
Hmm, I wonder why this person is worrying about high voltage particularly? I mean, 60 Hz EM fields saturate his house already because of the electricity running all through the walls and ceilings. The fields are exactly the same frequency, photon energy, et cetera.
Now, a 6000-volt (say) transformer has a field strength right next to it about 60 times higher than the field strength right next to a wall socket. But, thanks to the inverse square law, the field strength 10 feet away from such a transformer would be less than the field strength 1 foot away from a wall socket.
And...he probably spends hours and hours within 1 foot of a wall socket, and isn't likely to be within 10 feet of the transformer very often at all...I mean, unless the transformer fascinates him strangely or something...
This book contains all the info you need for this project.
"...or whether N. Korea gets The Bomb."
Yeah, I worry about that too. Lets hope that Bush jr has just enough braincells not to drop it on North Korea.