Electromagnetic pollution

• Most people are not affected, even by quite high radiation levels.

• Some people are affected by high frequency radiations like those produced by cell phones. Other people seem to be rather affected by low frequency radiations like the ones produced by economic lamps, low quality switching power supplies and radio broadcasts.
  

• It seems that high frequency radiations, like cell phones and Wi-Fi, need more power to be disturbing than low-frequency radiations.
  

• According to the anecdotes I heard and my own experience, the problems caused by parasitic radio waves seem to accumulate and decrease over periods of several tens of minutes. For example, if I slept inside my protected tent, I can behave for tens of minutes in a radiated environment with no problem. Then the problems appear and build up. Back in the tent, I will start to feel the benefits maybe after a quarter of an hour and I may have to wait an hour to be fully operational again. This is compatible with the idea that the radio waves have no direct impact on the nervous system but that they hamper and fiddle with the slow chemistry of the brain cells.

• The problems endured vary from person to person: some have headaches, other cannot concentrate, yet others get irritable.

• Power lines do affect some people strongly. The solution would be to use DC current power lines. I believe that the burial of power lines is not a perfect solution.
  

• Cell phones and Wi-Fi only emit radio waves when they need to. Most of the time, when they are switched on, but not used, they emit nothing at all. I made measures in a building where people were complaining about the Wi-Fi. Actually, the Wi-Fi and cell phones radiations were so low I was not able to measure them. Obviously the problems arose from economic lamps, some fluorescent lamp holders and from low frequency radio waves coming from the outside. The same way, a friend has to switch of his Wi-Fi router in order to sleep well but obviously the problem is not due to the Wi-Fi radio waves. Rather it is due to the low quality power supply of the Wi-Fi router.

• I have no proof of this but I presume that in some cases the radiations cause permanent damage to the brains of children. When I hold an economic lamp for an hour 30 centimeters from my head, I got nausea and a painful feeling as if my brains had been burned by a torch. This lasted for hours. I'm sure that this can harm children. Though I cannot directly feel the effect of those lamps at a few meters distance from them, I removed all of them from my habitation. After a few days, I had the subjective but clear feeling that this was a sound decision.
  

• My habitation is strongly exposed to low frequency waves coming from the outside. I now sleep in a little tent that I surrounded with metallic shieldings. This made a huge difference on my mental health. Below is a picture of the first way I tried to shield my tent, using survival blankets. It was dangerous because of a risk of suffocation, I believe the blankets released aluminum vapor and the low electric conductivity of the blankets yielded a poor shielding. But everybody loves that picture. I now still use the survival blankets but only because they keep the tent hotter when I'm inside. I'll remove them in the summertime. And I taped the blankets in a way that the aluminum deposits are now enclosed, facing each other.
  

• Some countries impose 30,000 mV/m as a limit, others impose 5,000 V/m and yet others impose 100 mV/m. Obviously, for sensitive persons, the latest limit is the only reasonable. Even so, I prefer to work in places with a radiation level close to nothing.
  

• Shielding is an art. When I first tried to shield my tent or my body, I got severe headaches. Some of those problems mays be caused by aluminum vapors released by the aluminum foil I used but obviously a wrongly shaped shielding can concentrate the problem caused by the radio waves. Some shapes are obviously optimal and I don't always understand why.

• In lots of cases I could propose alternative explanations to the problems people had. For example, economic lamps can release serious amounts of toxic plastic and oil vapors, like PCBs and dioxins. This occurs once the electronics inside gets close to or above 60 °C.

• Ferrite cores are very efficient to prevent radio pollution to travel along electric cables:

• The pictures below show how the radiations produced by economic lamps can be strongly decreased. But never do that yourself. There is a high risk of electrocution and the thermical insulation provided by the aluminum makes the lamps produce toxic chemical vapors. Much better is to use lamp holders that naturally tend to contain the radiations produced by the economic lamps. I looked at electronic shematics of the inside of such economic lamps. Obviously they were conceived by engineers who understand not much about radio waves and how to contain them.
  

• Even economic lamps modified like above still produce too much radiations for me. So now I use halogen lamps enclosed in a standard light bulb shape, like shown below. They are quite optimal sources of light, except for the fact they are not much more economic than standard light bulbs. My advice is to use low power such lamps and with a frosted bulb. That way they don't heat too much, which prevents the production of toxic vapors, and they don't produce trembling shadows.
  

• I started trying out LED lamps. The ones adapted for the 220 or 110 V AC mains contain a minute switching power supply, which produces strong amounts of radio pollution, yet much less than regular economic lamps. I tried one producing "cool white" light and it was awful to light a room or objects. I believe this is because natural "cool white" light contains a lot of violet color. Yet that lamp uses blue LEDs, together with a substance that transforms the blue photons in photons of less energy: cyan, green, yellow, orange, red... It is physically impossible for that lamp to produce violet. The lack of violet was compensated by more blue. The result is just awful... I'm going to try a "warm white" 12 V DC LED lamp, which should produce a much more natural rainbow of colors and produce no pollution provided I use a sane 12 V DC transformer. When holding the 220 V AC LED lamp close to my head I could feel the disturbance.
  

• My city seems to be like illuminated by a very strong source of low frequency radio waves. This would be the cause of the majority of the problems I encountered. The next strongest source of problems would be the economic lamps and fluorescent tubes.

• Quite often, when I hear of somebody complaining and I come with my measuring devices, I conclude that there is indeed a fair chance that the problems of the person are due to the ambiant electrosmog. I propose alternate explanations whenever I can... But, most of the time, the actual source of the radiations was not what the person supposed. In one case, for example, the majority of the radiations in a room arrived through the copper tubes of the central heating system. Those are not electric devices, the tubes just transport water... but they do conduct electricity too and obviously they pass somewhere close to a strong source of radio pollution. I'm convinced that high frequencies, like cell phone radio waves, are a serious problem in some cases, but I never encountered myself a place that was exposed to strong and continuous such radiations and I could never link the problem of a person to them.