Do you suffer from electrosensitivity? Have you heard that a Faraday cage can shield you from electric and electrostatic fields? But how does the Faraday cage work in practice? Can it be used to keep electrosmog away from people and animals? You can find the answers here.
What is a Faraday cage and what does it have to do with electrosmog?
The Faraday cage is named after the physicist Michael Faraday (1791 – 1897) and is also sometimes referred to as the Faraday cage. This refers to a metal cage that can shield electrostatic fields through induction and electromagnetic fields through induction.
The inside of the cage is therefore free from external electrical influences. Michael Faraday was not the inventor of the Faraday cage. Rather, it goes back to Benjamin Franklin, who had already discovered the disappearance of electric fields inside a metal container a century earlier. However, it was Faraday who made the decisive observations, which is why the all-round closed enclosure made of wire or sheet metal mesh was named after him.
Faraday cage in the car - amplifier of electrosmog?
Cars are generally very similar to Faraday cages. They deflect radiation to the outside. The problem: no electric fields can penetrate from the outside to the inside. However, electromagnetic fields inside the car also do not penetrate to the outside, or only with difficulty.
Artificial fields generated by the electronics on board, smartphones or various cables and components, for example, can overlap and intensify inside the car. One of the reasons why you feel particularly tired and exhausted after long car journeys may not only be due to the journey itself, but also to the electrosmog in the vehicle. This applies to both electric cars and combustion engines.
As measurements show, electric cars produce low-frequency electromagnetic fields while driving and charging. However, components, communication systems, GPS, WLAN and radio transmitters also generate a lot of electrosmog in combustion engines. Because electromagnetic fields cannot easily pass through the metal parts of the shell to the outside, cell phones, for example, emit more radiation than usual.
Can a Faraday cage shield against electrosmog?
A Faraday cage is also used, for example, to shield transmission cables for computers or antennas. They are surrounded by a braid of copper wire. This is intended to ensure that no external electrical fields affect the data transmission. To shield electromagnetic fields, the Faraday cage must have a completely closed shell. It can only shield the electromagnetic waves if it is completely closed.
Shielding against electrosmog - theoretically possible, but not sensible
Installing a Faraday cage against electrosmog at home would not be worthwhile because the construction work involved would simply be too great.
As it not only shields radiation from the outside, but also keeps electrical and electromagnetic fields inside, smartphones, tablets or electrical devices would be taboo inside a Faraday cage, which would be absolutely undesirable in this day and age.
Although there are textiles on the internet that are supposed to act like a Faraday cage, it is questionable how practical they are. Shielding electrosmog from the home or its surroundings is not impossible with a Faraday cage, but it is not practical.
