Guest guest Posted November 27, 2001 Report Share Posted November 27, 2001 With this talk of aluminum foil I remembered that I recently had lunch with my child at his school and couldn't help noticing all of the kids eating cafeteria food in aluminum foil packaging. Yuck! I don't know if it leaks but I hate to think of all of those kids consuming the stuff day in and out for years on end. I avoid using it just to be safe but when I do I don't directly place it next to the food. Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 28, 2001 Report Share Posted November 28, 2001 Anything acidic like tomato sauce etches into aluminum foil. You can see the effect on the foil. This shows that aluminum definately went into the food. Randy ============================================= Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:14:58 +0000 From: " kathy walmsley " <kathy_walmsley@...> Subject: Re: aluminum foil With this talk of aluminum foil I remembered that I recently had lunch with my child at his school and couldn't help noticing all of the kids eating cafeteria food in aluminum foil packaging. Yuck! I don't know if it leaks but I hate to think of all of those kids consuming the stuff day in and out for years on end. I avoid using it just to be safe but when I do I don't directly place it next to the food. Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 What are earthing spikes? Loni From: kikkie2004 <kirsty.weight@...> Subject: Re: aluminum foil Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:41 AM  Hi IXY I turned my room into a faraday cage by lining it with aluminium foil (ceiling and walls) and I grounded it to two earthing spikes through a whole in the wall to outside. Couldn't sleep for six years before that (had severe insomnia). Now I can sleep - until I don't sleep in that room, which is now never. You will be blocking out RF and electric field (if it's grounded). It won't block out low frequency magnetic field, but these drop away quickly if there isn't a source nearby. Ideally thus if you have such a room you should trip the power to that room. My bed isn't near the walls, so the trifield meter (for low EMF) doesn't pick up such fields. Acoustimer that measures RF is silent there as well. These cages are controversial hear in that some people say they feel worse in them, but for me, again, it's the only place where I can sleep. > > Hello There > > I am one of the unfortunate people that have to sleep outside in > the camper in the summer in order to get any sleep. > > I never would have done this but I slowly learned that when I > went to the lake I sleep better and eventualy at home I started sleeping > out in the yard in the camper. (it is aluminum covered) > > One thing I noticed during the first week in the camper was that the > lower frequency noise I hear and feel was gone, but I had a high > frequency noise or feeling (that felt good) but kept me awake for > about 3 days in a row, but then the high frequency faded away and > I was able to sleep. > > I have repeated this low --high thing several years in a row. > > This is now March and I am sleeping in the house. > > I have had almost no sleep since October and in an act of desparation > one day I lined one wall of the bedroom with aluminum foil. > > I noticed that some of the low noise was gone and I was able to sleep > from about 1am to 5am, after 5am I had so much high frequency that > I couldn't sleep. I decided to ride it through and now after about 2 weeks > the high frequency has tappered off a little and I am now getting some sleep. > > I am surprised that some sleep actualy comes because I had lost that ability. > > I had read on this forum that aluminum foil would not realy work. > > My question today is why does this seem to work ? and more importantly > what is the aluminum foil blocking ? > > Whatever I have done I would like to improve on it but am not sure of what to > do next, Part of the problem is solved but not all, I am hoping someday to > get my life back. > > Thanks, xyz > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Hello Kikkie :-) I only have one wall covered with aluminum foil, did you experiment with only one wall or did you do them all at once? I also moved all the wires in the basement that were under the bedroom and routed them away from that room. One night while doing that I woke up feeling as if the side of my head was going to explode, I didn't know what to do, the next day that was gone but I had the feeling that it was an electomagnetic event caused by moving the cables away. I did have the power tripped, but thinking about that I realized that was only 1 wire, I looked for a switch that would cut off all three wires but in the end I just cut them off and made a plug-in that I unplug at night thus cutting off all three wires. Since then I have plugged it back in again because I have the aluminum grounded through the house electrical system, probably not a good idea but will make a proper ground when the frost leaves. In the meantime I have a small computer chasis fan plugged in and running. It is ball bearing and makes no noise, I find it must make enough white noise that I feel better. Thanks xyz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Hi Loni They're the copper rods you put into the ground when you want to earth something. So in this case you attach splayed copper wire to the faraday cage and connect it to the eart spike/rod outside. > > > > Hello There > > > > I am one of the unfortunate people that have to sleep outside in > > the camper in the summer in order to get any sleep. > > > > I never would have done this but I slowly learned that when I > > went to the lake I sleep better and eventualy at home I started sleeping > > out in the yard in the camper. (it is aluminum covered) > > > > One thing I noticed during the first week in the camper was that the > > lower frequency noise I hear and feel was gone, but I had a high > > frequency noise or feeling (that felt good) but kept me awake for > > about 3 days in a row, but then the high frequency faded away and > > I was able to sleep. > > > > I have repeated this low --high thing several years in a row. > > > > This is now March and I am sleeping in the house. > > > > I have had almost no sleep since October and in an act of desparation > > one day I lined one wall of the bedroom with aluminum foil. > > > > I noticed that some of the low noise was gone and I was able to sleep > > from about 1am to 5am, after 5am I had so much high frequency that > > I couldn't sleep. I decided to ride it through and now after about 2 weeks > > the high frequency has tappered off a little and I am now getting some sleep. > > > > I am surprised that some sleep actualy comes because I had lost that ability. > > > > I had read on this forum that aluminum foil would not realy work. > > > > My question today is why does this seem to work ? and more importantly > > what is the aluminum foil blocking ? > > > > Whatever I have done I would like to improve on it but am not sure of what to > > do next, Part of the problem is solved but not all, I am hoping someday to > > get my life back. > > > > Thanks, xyz > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 HI XYZ It took me a week to do the room, but apart from that, I did the all the walls and the ceiling immediately. Felt horrible as I was doing it because of the reflection until it got well grounded (two outside with two earthing spikes/rods). All of it inside is interconnected conductivity-wise. Initially I felt better, the I did the floor as well, and felt much worse, then took the floor up again and it's been great ever since. So I don't know how one wall wuold work, I know some here advocate only partial shielding because of the reflection. Where I live there are masts to all directions and not far away either, so I wouldn't even know how to choose a side. > > Hello Kikkie :-) > > I only have one wall covered with aluminum foil, did you experiment with only one wall or did you do them all at once? > > I also moved all the wires in the basement that were under the bedroom and routed them away from that room. One night while doing that I woke up feeling as if the side of my head was going to explode, I didn't know what to do, the next day that was gone but I had the feeling that it was an electomagnetic event caused by moving the cables away. > > I did have the power tripped, but thinking about that I realized that was only 1 wire, I looked for a switch that would cut off all three wires but in the end I just cut them off and made a plug-in that I unplug at night thus cutting off all three wires. > > Since then I have plugged it back in again because I have the aluminum grounded through the house electrical system, probably not a good idea but will make a proper ground when the frost leaves. > > In the meantime I have a small computer chasis fan plugged in and running. It is ball bearing and makes no noise, I find it must make enough white noise that I feel better. > > Thanks xyz > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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