I’ve heared about a case of somebody being allergic to electricity. He had to make some modifications to his car, like moving the ignition coil, etc. Before that, he would suffer eye irritations, sneezing and stuf like that. Is such thing possible, or just media hype?
Sounds doubtful - it is possible to have allergic-type reactions to ozone, which is produced by some electrical devices, but unless the car in question is made of plastic or something, the driver is shielded from the ‘electricity’ in the ignition coil by the metal body of the vehicle.
Sounds like he was crazy as a coconut.
From some-medical-site-I-found-by-Googling “Allergies are disorders of the immune system”
The immune system responds to physical particles. Being alergic to electricity would be like being allergic to the colour blue. Like Mangetout says all he’d have to do to shield himself is hide behind some metal. Matching tinfoil hat and pants should do nicely.
From some-medical-site-I-found-by-Googling “Allergies are disorders of the immune system”
The immune system responds to physical particles. Being alergic to electricity would be like being allergic to the colour blue. Or gravity. Like Mangetout says all he’d have to do to shield himself is hide behind some metal. Matching tinfoil hat and pants should do nicely.
According to the person who told me this story, the validity of this allergy is actually backed-up by Swiss government studies. I will ask him if he has any cite…
Oops! Found it!
Looks like a tinfoil hat community to me :rolleyes:
A tinfoil hat makes an excellent Faraday cage and that may be just what the doctor ordered in this case. There may be more to this than meets the eye.
The fact that the OP specifically mentioned moving the ignition coil is very significant. Think of it as a miniature Tesla coil, a 1920s style death ray if you will, that makes an itty-bitty bolt of lightning in each combustion chamber. That’s what it’s supposed to do but under some conditions the high voltage field can interfere with other things. Have you ever been in a car where the radio made a whistling and clicking noise that matched the speed of the engine? Audible death rays bubba. I’m willing to believe that some people can detect this field and be adversely affected by it.
The symptoms certainly sound like a reaction to ozone. Was he inducing electrical sparking? This creates ozone, which is irritating to the respiratory system.
Reading those links I think not. The ozone would not be generated in sufficient quantities for the person to be exposed to a concentration that would cause an effect on diffusion from the point of generation. The links also discusses non-sparking sources being a problem.
The most effective solution is probably, as padeye alluded, to construct a home improvised faraday cage to protect the nerve-rich body parts from electomagnetic emissions. The brain could easily be shielded from these emissions by a head covering constructed from a thin metal sheeting. Tin foil is a crude but effective material that can cover the head in this way. Be sure to point the shiny side out though, because it glistens nicely in the light.