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Alternative Model
Alternative model: instead of using “tiny homes” just put a bunch of prefab container cabins (20ft by 8 ft containers) as living quarters hard up against the central island, stacked two high, with two bathrooms installed (or you can use the 20 ft by 8 ft office container as a cabin). Probably you would put up a deck or something to create easy access to the second floor cabins; there are perfectly good products available for that. Or just use ladders. You end up with 18 usable cabins, and two bathrooms. Surround it with the same 8 outriggers as the idea above, and I think you should be okay. Plus some wooden shacks on top. You could perhaps house 120 people.
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The Plateau
This next one is deliberately strange, just to encourage you to think about things a little differently. It isn’t as good as the two ideas above.
32 containers. 24 in the middle, and some outriggers. Park 4 tiny homes around the outsides. Maybe it works. It’s just an idea. I’d try one of the other ones, the proof of concepts first. Like just putting a cabin on top of the stack, just once. But whatever works, works. It’ll be an evolving, developing thing. This one above might be the expensive one, for wealthy people. But something like the plateau could be good for less wealthy people, or students. Just build the platform, and then students put up tents/shacks.
I think people would just have to start experimenting. It it were me, I’d just build something like the one just above (sorry it is messy, back hurts). And just put a tent on top. And some planks and boards to walk and sit on.
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Idea, perhaps for student activists.
Idk, maybe start a corporation that provides houses to those who need refuge and privacy. Privacy refugees. Because this whole thing, and the lack of privacy is soul destroying.
They build houses and dwellings, and then sell them in an affordable manner. But they also provide technological support and communications technology to those who need them. As well as web hosting. It is construction, and file hosting, and tech. Three areas. Where does revenue come from? People sponsor the construction of new homes. A home is a shelter, it provides refuge from the chaos outside of it. It shields you, and keeps your life private, away from prying eyes.
Give people a place called home. A place of refuge, to shield them from prying eyes. And then provide them with a way to communicate with one another. Help to rebuild and reinvigorate conversation; it is a basic human necessity. Technology can help with that. Including file hosting (audio conversation content).
Uhhh. They can live there, and not be an activist.
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Develop these new methods of construction as a decentralised collaborative skunksworks. Sooner or later you will find something that works very well. Try using the “Edisonian approach”, based on trial and error, and experimentation.
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1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration
The "Edison method" refers to Thomas Edison's famous quote, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. It emphasizes that innovation is not just about a single idea, but about the immense hard work, trial-and-error, and persistent experimentation required to make that idea a reality. This concept highlights the importance of dedication and tireless effort in problem-solving and achieving success.
The challenge is to make it cheap enough and good enough to become accessible to normal people.
Just keep trying things, and sooner or later we can find a good product solution that is fit for purpose.
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For all I know, all you need are half a dozen shipping containers full of aluminium can bales, connected together, and a tent on top of it, with four garden sheds full of aluminium cans around it (one each of north, south, east, west, 20 metres away from the main central island). It could actually be really easy.
Really, really easy.
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Silly Idea: aka “the wide platform”
Silly idea, this is over-kill in my opinion.
Prepare 80 shipping containers. Any version will do. Aluminium bales, steel pipe, or aluminium pipe.
Create a 25 by 25 meter square, 16 ft high. And connect everything up.
To test, just pitch a tent in the very middle of it. I am 90% sure it works in the centre.
Yes, it is overkill, but I am 90% sure that it works. The overkill version is just if you want a proof of concept. And want to be all but certain that it works.
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Once you prove that it works, just build a shanty town on top of it, and stay away from the edges. Done. Use wood, corrugated iron and something called “colour steel” (aka pre painted long run steel). Tents and other canvas products are also ideal.
If you want to improve privacy coverage right out to the end, just add in some out-rigger containers at a distance of 20m and 40m. To create a double perimeter and better coverage. Not too many containers. Maybe 16: put two of them at 20 metres on all four points of the compass. And then the same at 40 metres on all four points of the compass.
It’s way, way over engineered I think, and too expensive, but it should work. You could even park some tiny homes (single wide trailers) up against the sides as well.
25 metres by 25 metres.
And you could just put a few of them in the same field, or whatever. Four of them, because why not?
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Or if you’re a misanthrope with a decent amount of money and some land, just put a single shack up top, connect it to power, and water. And then do nothing much.
What’s the point?
The whole point of the “silly version” is that if you do it, it will work. Just put 80 containers in a parking lot, or in the desert, or in a student commons (as a student activist project), connected to one another, full of plywood boxes of steel pipe, and then it’ll work. It’s not meant to be cost effective. It’s not meant to be special. It’s just silly. It’s just to prove that you can have a shack on top of a plateau of boxes, shielded, for just the price of 80 containers full of wooden boxes of steel pipe.
It might be suitable for student activists.
Student activists? Where? France, Germany, UK, Italy, Greece, Spain? Which side? It could be left or right. It doesn’t matter. Whoever wants privacy. Technology doesn’t pick sides. It’s just a way to test out the ideas and the technology.
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Four to a paddock
You could have maybe four of the main model, my favourite one with 6 tiny homes, in the same paddock. And their areas of effect would probably overlap. Which means you could walk between them.
You could have 24 homes/dwellings in one paddock.
The product goes “viral” and 1000 people can live like that within months. A lot of people just want privacy and shelter.
But then it’s just a matter of supply and demand. Anyone who wants to live in a tiny house with a bit of land, and all the modern utilities can do so. And privacy and shelter. Just so long as they can afford it.
Ps: take the model, of six homes, and maybe surround it with a circle of garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans, radius like 60 metres, or something. This makes the whole area shielded enough. You don’t need to cover every inch! The whole area will be shielded and private!! The whole area!!
And then you have four of them.
And you have 24 homes, but you also have enough space to pitch a whole bunch of tents. It is basically a refuge camp. These containers have an “area of effect”. It’s more like zone denial than it is direct blocking. You can probably protect whole fields with this stuff. You might be able to protect huge swathes of land, given how the maths works.
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Here’s some stuff I copied from a previous page:
Basic Faraday Cube
Rename: box of honeycomb steel, to “basic faraday cube”.
It’s a box made of plywood measuring 50x50x50 full of mild steel pipe 50cm long, 4ish cm diameter, 1-2 thick. Although, the box could be bigger or smaller according to your needs. For example, it could be 40x40x80cm. It’s all about ease of handling. Also, the pipe could have more or less diameter. Such as 3cm diameter, up to 6cm diameter, or the thickness greater or lesser. Such as 1-3mm. There is some wiggle room, and the custom and building style would probably evolve over time. You could even pack a small amount of pipe into cardboard boxes, or fools so file boxes, so that you could stuff it into the wardrobes, kitchen drawers and cupboards and pantries on the ground floor.
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Standardised faraday shipping containers and conversion of pre existing buildings
You can stack these basic faraday cubes into a 20ft shipping container to turn it into a “standardised faraday shipping container”. And you can also stuff them chock full into the ground floor (or maybe the bottom two floors) of an apartment block, and surround the apartment block with tons of standardised faraday shipping containers to create a hermitage.
Question: How big does it need to be? How much area to cover? I think you might want to cover a space of 60m by 60m. Including the ground floor of the apartment block. But it might take a few iterations of this style of construction to figure out what works. No guarantees.
Also, it would work just as well to convert something like a five story office building.
Government Subsidies
Next, once these houses/dwellings are proven to work. Get the government, by direct democracy, in some nation states to subsidise them. And then people can have privacy of mind. And private relationships. At least at home. Keep the international government (the electronic peeping Tom’s) out of your bedroom.
With Government funding, you can get tens of thousands of them funded and built.
Then you have enough of a “power base” to start campaigning for kicking companies like spacex out of your spectrum space.
If they don’t budge, after kicking them out of spectrum space, you can sue them in international courts. You also have a bit of scope for a bit of “plebian politics” via direct democracy.
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Note: as for plebian politics, you can just implement anything at all via direct democracy (preferably at 66%) into the law codes that has the capacity to disrupt the society being pushed by “hive-mind utopians” or the techno-weirdos. And if it happens via direct democracy (aka mail ballot initiatives, see also Swiss direct democratic politics), that means that politicians can wash their hands of it.
For example, you could demand that the Government buy all of the cell towers in your society, by eminent domain, and ban ownership of cell towers by private entities.
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Ummm. If the technology really worked well, you could just use large quantities of aluminium can bales (or boxes of steel pipe) in the sub foundation of a block of flats. Just put 40 by 40 metres of this stuff, and then build steel girder framework over it, and build a development of maybe 16 units on top of it. A proper development. Surround it with two concentric circles of half sized shipping containers. That is, 9-12 months down the track, you could build proper housing. And just use bales of aluminium, or large containers of steel/aluminium pipes as part of the sub flooring or base of the development. At scale. And have proper, normal housing. Probably fair compact two story homes, semi detached.
You make the base first, and then build the dwellings on top. You use concrete and steel. Perhaps you have to surround the area in faraday containers to begin with, before you can get enough space to well in. Just like the way Romans used cofferdams for bridges.
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Houses
Base/platform
Containers/crushed aluminium cans
Ground
I don’t know if that comes through properly.
But it is only once about 10000 of the earlier models have been constructed, and the process is well understood.
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Put a concrete base down. Use girders and pillars to get up to a height of 16 ft, and build the houses on top of that. And put a bunch of containers of aluminium cans, pipes, or steel pipe beneath that structure.
Sell them to the wealthy at a comfortable profit.
Use the tools of capitalism against it.
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Stilts and Sea
Or better yet, just build houses on stilts, and place heaps and heaps of shipping containers full of steel/aluminium/aluminium cans around them. Create a sea of these containers, and a bunch of houses on stilts 16 high amidst this sea of containers.
You can have actual houses.
The seas probably needs to be about 60 m by 60 m.
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Or just get a warehouse, that measures 50 metres by 50 metres. Fill the whole ground floor with shipping containers full of one of the following: bales of aluminium cans, boxes of aluminium pipe, or boxes of steel pipe. And then subdivide the top floor into apartments, and either sell it to the highest bidder. Or turn it into a sponsored (i.e. crowd funded) refugee camp.
99% perspiration, 1% inspiration
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By the way, there are more idea in my old page here:
There is stuff at the bottom of the page also.
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Old stuff from the old page below this point
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This next one is just to stimulate thought, it isn’t actually doable.
Faraday Depolarisation Device
A faraday de-polarisation device. A depolarisation sieve. It strips the orientation from the em beams/fields from the sky. Disrupting their functionality.
A gap generator.
Get a piece of wood. A board measuring 8 foot by 8 foot.
And then get a bundle of pipes, made out of mild steel. Very narrow pipes. One cm diameter, thin walls. Make the bundle about 12 cm diameter, like a bundle of sticks. And about 180cm long. Wrap a large amount of very tightly wound copper wire around it. To make something similar to, but not exactly like an electromagnet.
Make four of these. And put them on the wooden board. Plug one end of the cable on the bundle into current in, and the other end into current out. Modulate the current correctly. I forget how to do this. Do it for each of the four bundles. Congratulations, these tubes (the walls of them) strip the polarity from the fields/beams from the sky-computers. Using faradays principles of polarity, not fully understood (look it up).
Stack four of these on top of one another.
Umm, lay them 90 degree angle, like rotate them in a cross hash pattern? You want them to cancel out a bit.
You have four by four of these.
That’s your “polarity stripper”. It kills the em rotation, thus destroying the ability of the rays to get you. It takes a a lot of power.
It could be mobile. That is the starting point for a skunks works you need to build it in a passive “faraday shielded hermitage” (another words, faraday fortress freeway settlement”.
Chance it works, right out of the box: 2%. But the chance it can be turned into a viable product, is 20%. But if it works, it could be mass produced from inside a faraday shielded hermitage, and marketed and sold widely. Maybe even converted into a mobile “gap generator”. Furthermore, it could best be used to extend the area of safety with about passively shielded hermitage. Maybe the hermitage is shielded passively, but the area around it (for tents and fields and gardens) is shielded actively. So if it goes down, you can shelter in the hermitage.
See the page on faraday for learning about the polarisation of light thing.
Faraday also discovered that the plane of polarization of linearly polarised light can be rotated by the application of an external magnetic field aligned with the direction in which the light is moving. This is now termed the Faraday effect.[63] In Sept 1845 he wrote in his notebook, "I have at last succeeded in illuminating a magnetic curve or line of force and in magnetising a ray of light".[70]
Think of it as a jumping off point for creating something so cheap that it can be used by almost anyone. (Not literally anyone), but at least by many types of people.
Just scatter a few around, and it’ll ruin their ability to triangulate properly. It destroys their whole thing if try’s can’t triangulate. Imagine that they need a large areas of effect to triangulate and create a good “handshake” triangulation relationship. One isn’t enough. You’d need at least 3-4 in a location. (A small group of these “gap generators” in a location, at least 3-4, up to 8-9, in an area to get it going). One isn’t enough.
Or if you had power, and everything designed perfectly, could shield or shelter a whole town, maybe. Have to make the devices very simple. And very well engineered, no complex electronics.
They look like an 8 by 8 by 8 ft stack of shipping pallets. With log sized bundles in between each layer.
This is still science fiction.
Maybe what is needed is a skunks works, just like J.E. Gordon at the RAE in ww2, or Turing at Bletchley. TBH, the faraday shelters themselves need to be “skunks works’d” and tested. And turned into prototypes, before being improved and made more costs effective.
If you had this sort of stuff up and running in a towns I think they’d get printers up and running, and start doing fliers and posters straight away. But I still believe broadcast radio is much more effective. Perhaps along with broadcast terrestrial TV. Radio is magical tbh. An amazing technology. It’s the best.
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Imagine if you have hermitages all over the world. And they come in clusters of about five, and all around these hermitages, they have gap generators. And they’re all able to use printers. And some of them have radio stations. They broadcast radio live from their locations! Legally.
What if this technology is so cheap, and so good, and so reliable, that people anywhere in the world can do it. Or becomes so cheap. And what if there are blueprints available, and tables of calculations for how many material to use. What if it becomes ubiquitous?
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Large number of people will seek refuge in faraday hermitages, and around them they will use gap generators aka faraday depolarisation devices. And communities can have privacy again. And they’ll just live like this, while still being embedded in the society that they live in.
And some people will just plug them into spare apartments that they own, to disrupt the system.
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Update:
If you’re physics-ey. For the sake of information. Just for other people to draw colour and vibe from.
One:
Something something spin/rotation/polarisation. Map-territory, or whatever. I read about this years ago, in Feynman biographies, and online. I also borrowed his textbooks from the library. He had something about atomic wobble, and rotation. A frisbee.
Polarisation. Polarity.
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_05.html
https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/the-unusual-way-to-work-like-a-nobel-prize-winning-physicist
I’m thinking about the “rotational information”. You don’t actually have to look at it.
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Two:
I read this book on Christmas Day in 2007, along with what I talk about when I talk about running by Murakami. It was in the Wairarapa at Amanda’s Uncle’s place. Schroedingers kittens.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100006.Schr_dinger_s_Kittens_and_the_Search_for_Reality
These are here just because this is the sort of stuff I get inspired by. You don’t really need to read any of it. Seriously, it’s just here because I thought that it’s interesting.
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Hypothetical ideas:
Next:
What if someone creates full blueprints and instructions for a DIY faraday encampment with the capacity for DDOS attacks on the satellites, to prevent their mesh network from working. It intercepts their packets to one another, imitates them, and uses their shape to DDOS the mesh network. Some sort of packet sniffing, and spoofing. I forget the right words. But they just fill the channels with garbage.
Then anyone can make one anywhere.
Probably need to create a community of networked hermitages first, and then start developing better technology with blueprints.
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Then nation-state actors can hold USA corporations hostage (musk, bezos, Branson), by saying, “pay us 100 million dollars, or we’ll DDOS your satellites’ mesh network as they fly above us”. For example, nation states in Central Asia, the Arab world, or sub Saharan Africa.
Even smallish nation state actors.
Find a cure, like the search for a cure for polio.
A good mental model is to treat this as though it is a public health issue, like the hunt for a cure for polio, or a means of dealing with malaria.
Just inspiration.
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Hiding
Personally, I’d just like for there to be places to hide. Just from the satellites themselves. Or the “remote control electromagnetic nerve splicing” technology itself (from both satellites and cell towers).
And the best way to do that is with a social movement combined with new technologies.
I want people to be able to take refuge. Aka, to seek shelter, or to hide from this technology in the skies. We can live hidden? We can form the new “underground” of electromagnetically hidden people. We can have minds that are private again, and we can rebuild our personalities through a combination of education, conversation, reading and privacy. We can have normal friendship again.
I’m not a hive-mind guy. There are a lot of people out there who just aren’t hive-mind guys, or hive-mind girls.
Postscript
Note: In the aggregate, culture changes. But never mind that for now. Get the technology operating first.
Note 2: But in the medium to long term, culture matters. As Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.
Privacy, education, conversation, friendship, shelter
https://youtu.be/C7ayji3ipyI?si=9ZMboGd93Kpr0I_3
Ummmmm. What if we had a “sponsored refugee camp” movement? It’s just an idea. People could create refuge for themselves and others, and outsiders would sponsor them to stay safe in the refuge.
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This idea isn’t ready, but I’m too tired to remake it yet.
I’ll tidy it up, but it’s just an idea.
https://oasisengineering.com/product/shipping-container-studio/?srsltid=AfmBOopCvKKJ70m8t2T9u0wz4Y_iSIij20Z-i2fNOtfT8F03FP5mZv4Tjb8
Start with the stuff in blue. And then add in the stuff in green until it works. Play it by ear. Maybe keep on expanding outwards if you have to. It’ll work eventually. I assume.
Maybe scatter a few outriggers, because that saves money.
The funny green lines are stairs.
It is suitable for one hermit who wants to take refuge.
Call it a hermit house, a faraday fort. I prefer hermit house.
Two means two high. Three means three high.
My chest hurts. I need rest.
Expandable:
If you need more living space, you can climb to the top of the whole complex and lounge about on the top of it. Maybe 3 units in a field close to a rural road, right next door to a farm house. That’s enough. They live like hermits. That solves the problem of how to be a hermit. That is a problem solved.
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Privacy
Some people need privacy, even to be human. I understand that these people are trying to upgrade us to human 2.0 (or 3.0 depending on who you ask). But a lot of people don’t want to upgrade. We’re okay with the old version. And do so without privacy causes us so much suffering that it isn’t worth even explaining. So perhaps some people might just seek out privacy.
Some of us might just do it. And some of us might be killed, but why not try it anyway. It’s not like living without privacy is very good, and it isn’t sustainable. As for destabilising the system, it’ll fail sometime anyway, so why worry.
Some of us need privacy, because to live without it causes tremendous unhappiness. And to have it would make us so happy! And also, a lot of us just want to play video games or whatever.
If someone else has one, and you can’t afford your own, you could always just pitch a tent on the roof of their deck? Like, the top deck.
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And these people have tons of people visiting. For tea/coffee, or lunch/dinner. You have a tea party on the roof. Or a barbecue.
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Edit: perhaps you could perch this on the front landing:
Edit 2:
https://mccontainers.com/product/10-toilet-shower-container-premium/
https://universal-containers.com/new-10ft-office-container/
Maybe use two 10 ft containers. It might be much easier to set up.. follow the links. Better pictures in the other side. Also, spin 90 degrees.
degrees.
Once you’ve build the basic cabin/office and the bathroom, and all the rest, you could just build additional rooms on top, or whatever. Or just one more room. Just build a wooden shack on top, stuff like that. A bedroom or a lounge. It’s not rocket science. Just any additions can be build on top. Or just a deck with a railing and a sun shelter so you can hang out and drink, or bbq, or anything. Building safety regulations notwithstanding.
Roof top garden.
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For all I know, you could even use garden sheds as outriggers.
For all I know, you could use tin garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans surrounding your main installation as “outriggers”. Like at 50m from your main central point, just surrounding with a ring of garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans. You could even use donated, battered old garden sheds
You still have basic containers in the central part. This would be for any version, like the one with 6 berths for tiny homes (kinda the equivalent of a single wide trailer, but the hipster version) or the plateau. You never know if you try.
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Put in fences, so that you feel a little less crowded. And gardens
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Unfinished:
Flop house parking lot, rv holiday park in a parking lot, cabins in a parking lot
Things an unfinished idea. But it might be possible to convert a parking lot to an RV holiday park. Or a flop house, or a cabin containing facility. Either for profit, or for activists. Or maybe as a refugee camp for displaced Christians who cannot have freedom of conscience. Or a refugee camp for people in general who are technophobes.
Ummm. If you have enough containers inside the building, maybe you don’t need any around it. On the outside. Remember though, 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
If you can find a way to make it profitable, then it becomes possible to do it at scale. You’re providing privacy as a service. You’re providing private accommodation. There are a lot of people who want that. And at least two really good market segments. There are “homeless” people, who just really want to get away from the “all seeing eye”, and you can make money off of that market segment. And there is also the luxury recreational vehicle (caravan and caravan market). Also, millionaires could subsidise them through sponsorship, in order to improve access, because they believe that there is a “positive externality” associated with privacy. And also, because economies of scale exist. And “critical mass” exists. Like, safety in numbers.
Doing it at scale is the thing.
Update: or what if you just surprised the parking building with containers stacked four high. And did it at width. Like, four high and two wide. And then a bit of space, and another circle of four high, and two wide. And then some more space followed by a final ring. And maybe only a small number of containers inside the parking lots itself. Or maybe it isn’t necessary to have that much materials around the place.
Maybe two rings of containers around it that are four high and two wide, and you have a whole parking lot belongs to you. And it becomes private. And maybe some stuff on the top floor. Of ten floors.
Ps: many of the homeless in the USA ought to be considered refugees of the fae (aka philosopher kings). And if they want shelter, then NGOs, foreign powers, charities and businessmen ought to be able to provide it. And they should be able to provide it in any way that meets their needs, including through the use of market forces. They can’t even sleep at night without fear of being attacked by electronic weapons that manipulate their muscles, or disturbing dreams that invade their minds.
If you can give shelter to “the least of these” (aka, the homeless and dispossessed) then sooner or later the technology will “trickle up” to the masses, as well as to the intellectuals, thinkers and activists (especially non Marxist socialists, including but not limited to, social democrats, democratic socialists, and those who want appropriate social reform at the nation-state level and/or those who want democratic socialism at the nation-state level [especially for smaller and medium sized nations!]. As well as other anti-totalitarian activists. Also, it gives shelter to those who oppose patent law and copyrights
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Proper one later. This one is bad. See the first and best idea up top, this is just an expansion idea.
It can be expanded as needed. And they can be produced at scale. You could have as many of these all over the place as you wanted. For example, you could have 50-100 within 20-30 minutes drive of Christchurch, on farm land. All of the dwellings are on wheels, and so should be fairly easy to sort out when it comes to compliance with things like building codes or zoning.
If the blocking of surveillance is too weak, then you can add more containers on the blue dotted line. And that should make it strong enough.
If you want to expand it north or south, you can do that, just make sure to move the boundaries and perimeter out before adding more of those blocks of 24 containers.
The idea is to have 24 of these units on the piece of land. Which should make it suitable for 48 people comfortably, or maybe 72 if you’re willing to have someone sleeping on the (foldout) couch. Perhaps each unit could be entitled to let one friend stay in a tent adjacent to their house/unit. For a total of 24 in tents, if needed. This makes the location suitable for up to 96 residents.
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In a pinch, people could use a caravan, like these:
But using “tiny houses” is much, much smarter.
Update:
36 containers and 6 tiny houses
The basic model might set you back 500k nzd, or 330k usd just for the "standardised faraday containers 2.0" alone. I have priced faraday containers at about 16k nzd apiece. This doesn’t include the tiny houses, or the land. Or plumbing and electricity (you could do it off grid).
That's 36 containers at 16k nzd apiece. Really rough calculations. 6k for the container, stuff it with like 10k nzd worth of crushed aluminium cans. Although I may have over estimated the density, and therefore the cost of cans. And also the price of crushed cans. And also over estimated the cost of the containers. It may actually be a fair bit cheaper than this. It might be possible to bring it down to closer to 200k usd, or 350k nzd. I honestly have no idea, it’s all just ballpark figures. I’ll do better figures soon. I just checked container prices in USA, and it’s about 1500 USD for a used container in good condition. How much it costs to stuff it full of 33 cubic metres of crushed cans, I’m not sure. But I said it might be 10000NZD, so maybe I’ll round it down to 5000USD. Which makes a price of 6500USD per “standardised faraday shipping container v2.0”.
Don’t forget that this is a skunkworks though!!
A better plan soon, I hope.
This next one should be totally remade, and put into a new folder. It’s just an idea. And it’s maybe easier to do, for like a farmer or something. It’s only single level for the central element. In fact, all of it is single level. Wait, I’ll colour the six tiny homes green in two minutes.
If I had some land, I’d give it a go. The central island consists of twelve containers, chock full of crushed ammonium cans. 4 by 3. Surrounded by “tiny homes” Similar to this diagram below: ignore the label of “2 fc”, it’s just one high. You can even make it “off the grid” with solar panels for electricity, and not on the town water supply.
Maybe things a better picture^
Scale is 8 foot by 20 ft container. And also, maybe you only need about 28 cubic metres of crushed aluminium cans per container. For ease of handling and use, consider baling them up in plastic before packing them into the containers. Make cubes of crushed aluminium cans, and bale them up in plastic wrap. Whatever you do, it’s just an experiment.
Uhh. Hippies and old fashioned counter culture people would love this. Retirees and eccentrics as well. So many people would love it. People who work during the week as engineers, software developers, accountants, CEOs and cfos could use it. So many people. Especially hippies. So many people just want to be left alone. They want privacy.
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They want to be left alone by the corporations, and academic know-it-alls, the peeping Toms and voyeurs of the world and all of sex pests, the busy bodies who want to meddle in your life. They want to be left alone by all of the proponents of the know-nothing dead brained new secular psych-engineering religion too (that’s my name for the religion of the university and corporate system, the religion of “applied psychology”).
Corporations = telcos and big tech and big data and space launch companies - as well as infrastructure syndicates. And all of the tech-dweebs
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I "productised" "privacy" and "refuge", and this might be the best way to create refugee camps for people who want to flee from the harms of the system. I think that there is maybe a 20-30% chance that it takes off, and works well, and it cost effective, and socially acceptable. But underpromise, over deliver, right?
It is a “distributed”, “decentralised”, “deconstructed” form of refugee camp. And it could be funded by means of sponsorship. And I want to live in one. With my daughter, if possible.
Ps: there is probably a 60-70% chance that it works right off the bat, first try. And 70-80% chance it works within 3-4 iterations. There will probably be some teething issues. Edit: it is probably closer to a 90% chance of it working.
Edit: Uhh. The whole area within the circle, and about 10 metres outside of it, should be private and usable. Shielded from the “all seeing eye”. And… I have been told that I should remove the “under promise and under deliver”, because it will actually just work. Probably. It seems to be way over engineered lol. Maybe like a 90% chance we can get it going fairly quickly. I’m just really hesitant to make promises that might not work out.
Umm. You can probably just keep on adding concentric circles, if you really want. Ps: the model at the top of the page, you can just keep on adding concentric circles of containers every 15 metres out from the first ring, and it probably works. Probably. You could add 2-3 rings, and just expand it out wards. And maybe turn it into a tent city, by expanding outwards over and over and over. Or make it into a park for self contained campervans.
Another diagram. Make the scale about 20 metres between the central island and first 4 out-riggers, and 20 metres out to the next circle. And I think you have yourself and your homes shielded straight away, and have plenty of space to hang out as well. That’s it. I’m not sure how many containers to used in the outer ring though.
In the end, it might become a model or a blueprint for a decentralised, resilient, distributed network of refugee camps. Kind of like a deconstructed refugee camp. It performs the function, but you don’t end up being ghetto-used. But it needs to evolve first. It will take some time. I think the first model/s are ready. But the models that will be suitable for mass rollout will take some work.
It would be popular with a lot of hippies and retirees. Or as a hideaway for celebrities and business executives. And as a weekender for office workers who live and work during the week in the city. This will make it possible for it to trickle down to the masses as well. That’s just how technology works! See the car industry if you don’t believe me. Once it trickles down, then large numbers (hundreds) of people might flock to them. And there might be surprises as to who finds it useful. Sometimes whole religious communities in places like rural Texas might move into them. Like an entire church community of 180 people. Or the whole ruling family (extended family) of an oppressed African nation (or several of their major ruling/influential families). Or wealthy, influential Japanese families. Or a medium sized church in a place like Uganda, who proselytises, and wants a radio station and printing press. Or the whole government of certain nations. Or the upper echelons of their ruling party. Or homesteaders.
We need the “model t ford” of this thing. It’s an open source skunk works and design project.
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Here is a good idea, look at it!!!!
Look at this!!!
The Johnny Appleseed Model
Social entrepreneurship and a business model
Once the technology works well, become the Johnny Apple seed of the basic faraday circle, and spread them far and wide. Give or sell them to people who can use them as a cottage industry, renting out berths to people with tiny homes (or single wide trailers aka manufactured housing on wheels, or caravans).
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Business model:
The landlord lives in one tiny house, and rents 5 berths to other people who bring their tiny home on wheels, towed behind a 4wd vehicle. And eventually, anyone and their Mum can rent one (assuming money).
The social entrepreneurship is that you become a property developer, create the circles, and then sell them to people at cost, or slightly below cost.
That way you have access to all of the tools and services associated with financial and industrial capitalism.
The Long Rain, a short story by Ray Bradbury.
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Just a couple of undeveloped ideas here.
This is a good one, below: it is the faraday circle, expanded outwards, infinitely.
You could exist anywhere within the outer ring. Probably. Or maybe anywhere within the second to last ring, with total security of not being under mental observation. You could stick a whole church community in there.
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Manufactured Housing
You can use ordinary transportable homes, ie manufactured housing
Ordinary transportable homes (aka manufactured housing) might be doable. Regulatory approval might be a hassle. But it’s possible as well. 7m by 13m
But maybe only two of them in one circle. Here is a good example of what you could use:
https://www.builtsmart.co.nz/transportable-homes-floor-plans-prices/86sqm
Early versions:
When you first try this technology out, it’s probably best to use houses on wheels, like tiny houses and camper vans. And tents! Because it’s just easier to set up. And there are fewer issues with regulations if the houses are on wheels. And it makes it so much easier to house poorer people, and people without fixed abodes. But as time goes on, you ought use newer and nice places to live.
It is a skunkworks!
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Two more ideas
Just put one in a spare field or abandoned lot as an act of public service for homeless people to use. And they can just camp out there. Or several around the city. The expanded version.
Or just put one in your town square, or village green. The expanded one, so people can converse during the day in peace. And socialise. Test out the technology (skunk works). And figure out the best use cases?? It’s trial and error.
One more idea
For a wealthy individual. Set up 20 faraday circles in fields that you own, outside your home town. Let them be used as common property. Anyone can park their caravan there, or set up a tent.
That is the new commons. The only place for free exchange of ideas. And a sanctuary where people can escape to. Not rent charged. Private property, used as a commons.
Maybe set up 20 faraday circles in and around a big city. So that people have a new “town square” for discussion. Like 20ish just outside a place like Birmingham. And maybe a few inside. As an act of public service. Private land, used as though it is a commons. Some shelter homeless overnight. Most just allow free discussion and a place of refuge and shelter during the day. Just a thought.
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Why not just set one up as an urban homeless shelter? They can just set up tents in amongst the containers.
If you need more space, just add more concentric circles.
Urban homeless shelters might be the best use case for this technology. Other than dwellings in the countryside for people like retirees, hippies and non-conformists. They are perhaps one of the best examples of electronic refugees in our society. A lot of them aren’t “hive-mind guys” or “hive-mind girls”.
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It is quite possible that the faraday circle shields a circle of 120 m diameter. The whole thing. Entirely. Totally. And you might be able to stuff it totally full of campervans. Like 50 of them. These rays use multiple depths of earth as reflection points. Sort of. So they have to penetrate the earth from a variety of angles, and do rerouting and contingency algorithms end averaging algorithms. And then if you have enough in the centre and around the edges, it might be enough to do the whole 100m circle, and ten to twenty metres outside of it. They have to reflect and bounce a lot of radio waves off of the earth to make this work. Models are just models. Ugh. Too hard to explain. There is no “is”.
Next thought, what if you bought a pre existing holiday park, or camper van haven, with connections for caravans, and just installed standardised faraday shipping containers. A faraday circle. And some extra. Then it’s just a holiday park with amenities, and satellite em spectrum nervous system privacy. And you stuff it with 50 caravans of long term residents, who live there and work outside of the location.
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[[Next thought, it might also be the case that it is way over engineered, and you’ve used twice as much expensive materials than you need, and you could remove half of the material from inside the containers and it still works. (Don’t try that though.) We’ll not know until it is experimented on. This is useful, because maybe if you only need a tiny spot for one cabin, you can use 50% of the material??]]
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Seriously though, you can probably just build the "basic faraday circle" and stuff it full of 50 campervans and you'll be fine. And in the unlikely even that it isn't strong and secure enough, you can probably just add more containers into the perimeter, just strengthen the line. Thicken it, and fill in the gaps (at the 50 metre radius point approx). You know, fill in the dotted line of the circles circumference. And then make it double thickness. If you look at the basic model, there is a ring at about 50 metres. You just make this a solid line, instead of a dashed line. And maybe make it thicker, like double high or double wide. And that makes the whole region totally secure. And you then stuff it full of 50 campervans But the basic model ought actually to be fine for stuffing like 50 caravans in there!!! And for even better results, just buy a location already fully set up for campervans. A space with all of the basic hook ups for caravans, as well as well prepared ground. and overlay the faraday circle on it. I'm sorry, I try not to over promise!! It is a skunk works. It is experimental! I can’t promise success! But it might be amazing!
[note to self, redo that section]
By holiday park, I might just mean good level grounds, with gravel or concrete pads for the caravans, and level grassy areas. It has maybe just a toilet block, showers, and small kitchen already on site. You already have electricity, plumbing and internet (maybe wifi on site, unsure how that works). You might have to bulldoze a few cabins or buildings to make space, but it could definitely work. Edit: better idea, just find a large flat piece of land with a toilet/shower kitchen block already built, and overlay the faraday circle on top of it.
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Ultimately, someone should just do it on their farm or lifestyle block though. Just to test it out. With only two tiny houses. One for them and their wife, with also one for their parents. And see how that goes. Just to test it.
And then build it into ordinary life. Shelter in place, or build shelters. Keep calm, carry on.
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Read this part, just below:
Seriously, the basic model (see diagram on the top of the page) should give you a circle with a 100-120 metre diameter zone of exclusion. And it if doesn’t, just fill in the gaps on the outer rim with an additional 15 or so containers, and it should be enough. I’d just make the basic model straight away. And have another 12-15 containers on hand, just in case. 45 containers in total. And then instantly, I think I might have a football field worth of space to play with.
What does that mean? It means that if you are inside circle of containers you are safe and have electronic privacy. And if you are just outside of the circle of containers (by ten metres) you are still safe and have privacy. That means that the whole circle of safety is 120 metres across. Please note, the circle in the diagram is approximately 100 metres across. The scale is: each rectangle is a standard 20ft shipping container, that is 6m by 2.5m.
Read me^
It is a skunk works. That means we need something like 20-30 different sets of people to test it out, in a decentralised manner, to find out how it works, and how best to make it work. Once it works, it will evolve fast. There will be multiple iterations, for example there might be circles full of comfortable cabins and barracks, with common areas and basic amenities, instead of campervans. Many guys could hide away in these, just for the sake of argument. And work as programmers, designers, developers and software engineers. They never leave the circle. Or seldom.
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People who just want to be left alone, maybe they can just be left alone.
Just overlay a circle on top of a family home. Probably works. And if it doesn’t, just add ten more containers into the ring. Suitable for homesteaders, lifestyle block dwellers, and anyone who has a modest home in the middle of a level, even plain with firm soil/ground. You need land around the house is what I mean.
Better photo of the above picture available here:
https://www.howcommunicate.com/general-photos-and-images
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New idea:
Imagine you have a neighbourhood consisting of 50 “lifestyle blocks”. You can probably put 30-40 of those houses inside faraday rings, and end up achieving “critical mass” in the neighbourhood. And even houses that aren’t a part of it end up having coverage. But it depends on the size of the properties, and the effectiveness of the technology. These things have a multiplier effect, or synergise, or something, I think. It’s a skunkworks, remember? This idea I think has a low chance of working. But it might be the kernel of inspiration for something good, or better. I’m kind of conducting a public, open source skunkworks.
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You could just mix and match a neighbourhood a bit. Maybe some houses have faraday rings over them, and you also have a few in the neighbourhood just for caravans, and they’re close enough to link up.
Extra idea:
Maybe just have one overlay faraday circle on top of your house, and then a second basic faraday circle with six tiny homes on wheels in it adjacent, in the nearest paddock. That way you have a place for yourself to live, and six units to rent to tenants. Place them close to one another so that you can run power and internet to them easily, and so that you can walk to-and-fro between the house and the six tenants’ units. Or use the second faraday circle for 20 caravans. Either way, just become a landlord.
Or maybe build multiple faraday circles to create many spaces for your tenants. One house, 3-4 adjacent circles for your tenants. I might do a diagram later. Or if you have a large farm, you could build one circle around your main dwelling, and then 10-20 faraday circles on your farm, and daisy chain them together. You could fill each new circle with either tiny homes or cheap caravans, and then become a landlord. And have many tenants. If you want, you could either charge market rents, or do it as a refugee charity with rents like $20 weekly (with sponsors and donors supporting you). A good demographic might be women who were trafficked into prostitution (aka sex work), but want to get out. Or young men who don’t fit in (“zoomers” who are basically decent people, but don’t like the current day culture), or retirees, or hippies. Or political activists and party members in mainstream parties who need privacy. And members of the civil service. Or just rent spaces to van dwellers.
Places like England, France, Germany and Switzerland might be good places for this.
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Random idea:
Boarding house: Thailand, Phillipines. You have a home in a small town. One paddock in the back, one in the front. One large paddock to the side. Regulations as to housing are lax!
You put up a faraday circle, to protect your home. You have just enough space to put up the circle. You expand it a little to the rear of your home. You then put up 3-4 cheap cabins (with bathroom facilities) for boarders. Serve them food, charge rent, do laundry. Earn money. Landlady in charge. Two occupants per cabin, 8 occupants total.
It is a business model, just spitballing ideas. Can be replicated in many places. Just an idea.
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My new favourite idea
Second attempt:
The red/green rectangles are house buses or motor homes. The two story farmhouse was already on the property. You just overlay the containers over the property. And move the house buses in. For best results, you want to have flat land. Also, for best results (and more space to walk around and stretch your legs) put a second circle of standardised faraday containers exactly 20 metres out from the outermost containers.
You end up with one house and spaces for 7 house buses (or full length motor homes, aka RVs). Or perhaps one house and 14 small vans. You can use the electrical connections, plumbing, internet etc associated with the original house. It can be replicated easily. Just buy a house in the countryside, put up a faraday circle, and move in with about 25 friends, including children (they can bring the house buses).
If you double park them, you could have 14 vans instead of 7 house buses.
That might be better. Have one house and 14 vans. Easier. Like 20 people, straight away.
Imagine if you have 1000 of these worldwide (each and every one of them is independent of one another) and they’re all networked via the internet.
End of that idea (it is a very good one!).
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Going Underground
Next idea: you could just bury the containers underground.
For example, if you’re wealthy, and you want to shield your cabin/cottage out in the country side, you could just build a faraday circle with buried containers.
You have a small two bedroom house in rural New Zealand on a flat piece of ground. You then dig a large pit close to it, and create a reinforced concrete pit, with lid, and fill it with 24 faraday containers. Put the lid on it, and then grow grass over it. You still have access to it via a manhole or something, to check drainage or whatever. It’s like good construction.
And then at a distance of 50 metres radius from the house you dig a trench one story deep, line it with concrete and make sure it has drainage, and fill it with faraday containers, then put a lid on it. And put grass over top.
And then you put a few extras containers into pits within the circle, to even out coverage. At a distance of maybe 20m away from the house. And plant grass over top.
Congratulations, you may just have shielded your whole house. Use a small house though. And then no one can see the shielding tech. But you’re still shielded. It’s like your whole home is hiding under a dome of aluminium and steel mesh, just like hiding this black cardamom under this sieve:
Congratulations! You have privacy, but your house doesn’t look weird. Pricey though lol.
Tldr: just dig the containers underground and cover them up with soil and grass.
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The Long Rain, by Ray Bradbury:
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A new idea
Make some crushed cubes of aluminium cans. Wrap them in fibrous plastic wrap (sturdy stuff). Dip them in something water proof.
Make lots of them.
Find a house in the country side. A small one, surrounded by flat land. Plenty of land. Then draw a circle with a radius of 60 metres.
Sink many wells and shafts into this soil. Make them about 1-2 metres across and 20-60 metres deep. Many of them. 60-80 wells in total.
Fill these wells with the cubes of aluminium cans.
Put lids on the wells.
Grow grass over top of them.
And you should have an attractive house that’s shielded from the rays of the satellites. Maybe. This one still needs to be fully skunksworked. It really just is inspiration. I wouldn't trust it yet. Maybe 30% chance that it would work, as is. The benefit of this one is that it is good for aesthetic qualities. That is, it looks better. All of the material is underground.
I personally dislike it. But perhaps other people will like it. The one just above (the nucleus and circle model) is probably better. Oh, and you could always just put a massive diving pool full of crushed cans beside a house as well. To synergise with the wells you’re sinking.
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Maybe this is an idea?
Farm house, and you park some vans around.
Circle, imaginary circle like 120+ metres across. Fill it with a bunch of para pools (frame pool sets) full of aluminium cans (crushed into cubes). Spread the pools out a bit. And cover them with tarpaulins. That’s it. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. Make sure to cover a lot of ground though. I dunno. You’ve got a farm house, and a couple dozen vans. People live in the vans. It’s like mass van life. You install extra toilets, and use the farm house as a lounge, kitchen, bathroom and laundry. No one actually lives in it. Seems smart. Just chill out. Like a fern.
Edit: Small grain silos could work too. The most important thing is do create a circle that is about 100-120 metres across. It’s a matter of scale. I think?
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Bigger scale idea
Or a field, in a place like Ashburton. 400 metres by 400 metres. Spread out a huge number of smallish grain silos. Fill them chock full of crushed aluminium cans. Install it somewhere that has buildings/houses on the land already, so that you have connection points for electricity, sewerage, fresh water and internet. And you also have some bathrooms, kitchen and laundry facilities also. Invite hundreds of people in vans and camper and to come to stay on the land, cheap. Hundreds of people. What they do, I’m not sure. It’s clever, but perhaps not sustainable. But it’s a start.
Refuge.
The desire for privacy is very, very strong. And so if it’s affordable, people will leap at the chance to have it. They will move heaven and earth, shift countries, and spend boat loads of money to have it.
Privacy. It is a type of refuge!
Privacy!!!!!!!
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Rural House Conversion Kit
Here is another idea. It might be worth testing out. We don't know if it works until it's tried. It might be a little over engineered at the moment, and the scale is a bit off, but the cost and quantity of materials can probably be reduced over time.
Rural Australia might be a good place for this. It should cover more than just the main house, giving you space for a handful of vans, caravans or cabins as well. It gives you privacy and refuge, so that you're not obliged to be a part of the mass "hive-mind" social experiment.
The product is intended for mass rollout, assuming it works.
Here is an example of the type of pool you might use, full of bales of crushed aluminium, covered with a tarpaulin. Either weigh down the tarpaulin with bricks or pin it down with sturdy tent pegs. You need lots of them, and spread them out. It’s all about “scale”, coverage, quantity and spread.
Ps: if you feel a need for additional "emotional security", (I.e. lack of faith that it will work) when installing this version, just put a few faraday containers (2-3) directly beside the house when you build it. Then move them away one by one once you're sure it works. You probably don’t need them.
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If it works (the faraday circles, or the swimming pool grid)
This is hopefully the last idea for a while, because I am hoping to get away from political ideas for the moment. But here it is.
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Main functions
You can hide!
Privacy
Refuge
Rest and recuperation
Normal conversation
Unmediated relationships. For example, friendships that aren’t mediated and manipulated by the busybodies of the sky. Also, familial, marital and dating relationships that are unmediated. Where you are free to choose how to interact with the other person!
They would be good for a holiday or as a home.
Mission creep:
If this works, it might be best to stick to the core functions above. That is, use technology to create privacy, and provide places of refuge to people who need it. It will allow people to rest and recuperate, rejuvenating themselves in both mind and body. They can enjoy normal conversations and unmediated relationships (no busybodies meddling psychically with your social interactions). Some people can live inside the privacy bubble, and always have refuge and shelter. Some people can merely visit for a while.
Mission creep could be dangerous and unwise, and is best avoided. Also, a peaceful non-violent movement is more likely to be successful (something kind of like civil rights USA; or like quakers in pre civil war USA, or the pilgrims in pre 1776 USA fleeing religious oppression in Europe) rather than something armed and violent. Maybe people with minds worth protecting would very much like shelter?
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What other "functions"?
Any faraday circle could have any one of the following “functions”… Lecture theatre, classroom, multimedia library, newspaper printing and distribution centre.
For example, if you have a projection room you could air lectures recorded elsewhere for audiences who walked to your circle from the surrounding area. If you have a room full of headphones and audio recordings, then people could visit to listen to talks, radio shows and podcasts recorded elsewhere. If you had a photo copier and industrial printer, then you could print out magazines or newspapers that other people wrote, to distribute to the surrounding area. Perhaps the best time to distribute materials to the surrounding area might be when you hold a barbecue or shared pot luck lunch. Oh, and ordinary classrooms too.
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Content Creation
Some of them can be used as a place for content creation. Such as a place where you create and record lectures, write books and pamphlets to be reproduced elsewhere, and multimedia content (to be watched elsewhere), where you write, edit and do layouts for newspapers. That sort of thing. You need to create content in the first place, to distribute it elsewhere. They could be like punk zines? I don’t know much about that sort of thing.
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Additional idea, once the technique and technology improves and has been tested. Then you can do things like overlay it into a warehouse (that is, surround it with swimming pools full of crushed bales of aluminium cans and also put some standalone swimming pools of crushed baled aluminium cans inside the warehouse. All of it evenly spaced on a grid. That way you have space inside and out. I think. You ought have to visualise that one your self. But think in terms of 200m by 200m grid, with a 60m by 60m warehouse in the middle of a desert?
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Expanded Model: Caravans and Farm House
Take a property with a plenty of flat land, and a small house already on it. You’ve already got utilities attached.
Put one of these things down, including the caravans. Use second hand caravans. Plug everything into the house. Power, water, sewerage.
Rent out the caravans to people for a few hundred dollars each. Will it work? I dunno. Possibly. I reckon the main house is good. Probably the rest are too. But it’s all about treating it. It spreads like wildfire, because you can rent them out and make money. This means that people can use debt and profit to self fund expansion. Ie, they can borrow money.
You put the nucleus hard up against the house, and the caravans inside the inner circle. At least the whole inner circle should be clear, safe and private. And if it doesn’t work, then the “swimming pool grid” one should work.
Uhhh. I actually need to tidy it up. But I’m shattered. It’s just a circle, with an extra one outside it. It still has the nucleus, and four solo containers north south east and west of the nucleus. And it has 24 caravans in the picture, and one modest house.
It’s a skunkworks. There are no guarantees that it works, but if it is tested out, it might work really well. It might work perfectly the first time, shielding absolutely everything inside the circles. In fact, it might be so over engineered that the whole area is not only safe from observation, but that the amount of material could have cut in half, and it still works!
Or it could still need work, I’m not sure.
It seriously could just work first try. And it could potentially be so over engineered that the later versions could be made with something like half of the quantity of crushed and baled cans.
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Faraday Circles: brain storming ideas for use cases in service of basic grass roots democracy
Hypothetically, imagine a party activist in labour, national, Maori party.
Moves into a caravan in a faraday circle (assuming it works). They write pamphlets and other documents. And can send them via the internet to another faraday circle in another part of the country. They then print 5000 pamphlets at the second location, and host a barbecue. At the barbecue they hand out 5000 pamphlets.
Another idea. They create teaching materials in a faraday circle, and then distribute them to 20 other faraday circles. Each of those circles contains a small cabin (on wheels) useable as a classroom. And then a teacher uses those teaching materials to teach an informal class every evening.
Next, another idea. If you create high quality information inside a faraday circle (like a book, music, art or multimedia document, or a file discussing the merits and demerits of particular politicians, civil servants or other officials) you can then transfer it to other circles, where they can download it to their server. And then anyone within the circle can access it to use it, enjoy it or observe it. This includes books, music, black market copyrighted materials, instructions for bypassing patent protected materials, engineering blue prints for telecommunications technology, respectable analysis of foreign powers and institutions (Including analysis of USA, EU, Japan, UN, IMF, WHO, Banks, CIA, Corporations in the telecommunications industry, spacex, MIT/Harvard, Cambridge/Oxford, China, Australia etc) by genuine academics (working in sheltered locations).
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Or a different idea.
What if?
What if we had 25 faraday circles in small towns in NZ. 100 in small towns in Australia. 200 in small towns in Texas, 100 scattered about California and another 200 spread between places like Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, South Dakota, North Dakota, Virginia and the Carolinas. Maybe another 150 between England, Ireland and Canada. And a few in each of France, Germany and Switzerland. Perhaps some in each of Poland, Hungary, Cuba and Romania.
And they all had classrooms, standardised pamphlets, electronic libraries and barbecues every Saturday. Barbecues where people were able to talk and hand out pamphlets, produced and printed “off-the-grid”. And huge numbers of people could have at least one conversation every week without being harassed. Some places focus on research and writing, some on outreach.
It is called “horizontal power” and it is inherently democratic.
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It could allow people in significant number to eat, sleep and live in private. But also to be able to access, share and create information in a private, safe location.
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But maybe the biggest selling point of this technology is that once it is available (please see the most recent version at the bottom of the (new) ideas page) then many people will be able to have privacy while they are at home (even if they can’t have it at work). They can live in a motorhome, caravan or cabin on site, and have privacy for 120/168 hours per week. That’s 168 hours minus 48 hours for working and commuting.
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Another (unfinished) idea.
The hobbit hole model
This really is a silly idea. Seriously. Build a cabin, it ought to be three metres by three metres. It is waterproof, it is made of wood with a tin roof, or reinforced concrete. It is very sturdy. It has a 10 metre long concrete pipe to the door as a tunnel. Surround it with a chain link fence. Maybe 20 metres by 20 metres, and about 4-5 metres high (I know I said that the square should be 25/25, but don’t worry about that). And then fill the whole area with cans. Bales of aluminium cans. Even loose cans. And then cover the whole thing with netting, to stop it blowing away.
It’s like a hobbit hole.
It should work.
And maybe you can reduce the amount of material required over time. To find out the cheapest way to do it. That is, maybe make it a smaller square, but with really high walls.
Furthermore, you can possibly add more little hobbit holes to it. Each with their own entrance.
That’s it. It’s just an idea. You use it as a cabin to sleep, eat, work, read, study and relax in. But you still have your main house. This one just goes in the back yard. It’s a silly little idea, but I like it anyway!
Edit: Maybe you and your wife put it behind the house, and it’s just one cabin inside it. And you just use it as a sleep out. It contains a double bed, and two small laptops on mini desks. And you run a power cable and Ethernet cable out there. And you can sleep out there, surf the internet for a bit every evening. Lounge about doing nothing much. Read. Do yoga, or whatever. You use the kitchen, toilet and bathroom inside.
The idea is still evolving.
Maybe make the building 4 metres by four metres, out of cinder blocks. And make the enclosure closer to a cube in size. The fences are taller, but closer in. That is, height increases, but depth and width are reduced.
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Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
This is one of my favourite few poems.
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Fun idea, good for the backyard scientist
Just an idea. Ummm. It is a work in progress.
Build tall fences of 16 ft high. Bottom 8 feet are sturdy wood, top 8 feet are chain link. Central area is 4 by 4 (or as little as 2.5 by 2.5). Outer fence is 14m by 14m. Alley way is from outer fence to inner courtyard, it is also 16 ft high. You fill in the courtyard with bales of crushed aluminium cans and possibly other metal scrap. Then put a small cabin or shed in the middle, run power and internet to it. Maybe plumbing in and out, if you feel like it. You could actually do a bathroom (or just hand basic and flushing toilet) if you really wanted to. It’s not impossible. Location, your back yard. If you have a decent backyard. If it doesn’t work, just put a few containers or covered swimming pools of extra cans around it. If you don’t want to pour concrete, then you can do the central courtyard in brick. Put a net over the top of it, something sturdy enough to last that prevents the cans escaping over the top in the wind. Prediction: chance of success is about 30-40% that it works. If it works, it might catch on. Good for makers and DIY guys. Remember, this is a skunk works. Think of it like JE Gordon working at the RAE. Once the technologies and methods of construction work, they can be spread all around the world. If they work!? But that remains to be seen: it’s a perfect project for some of the mad scientists among us.
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And then you maybe rent it out to someone for $1000 per week. And you make great money. It’s a way to offer refuge, and make money. The profit margin makes it possible to roll it out en masse, privately funded.
Or maybe I would just use it to sleep in, and as a day room. But still get things done outside. Like, you have your main home. But out in the back yard, you have your sleep out. Which is private. And you can also spend the day in there chilling out. Doing nothing much. And maybe also have a job, out in the real world. As for showers and proper meals, you do that inside.
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I still think the first model is best. The one at the top of the page.
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Use Cases
What could you use it for? Gigs. Or rock music. An underground rock scene. Counter culture music. Also, the main faraday circle model would work even better for gigs.
If you need space to just live a normal private life, or escape from your childhood bullies in your head, that’s fine. Or to escape from being trafficked into semi-voluntary unwanted sex work. Or maybe you want to be a terminally online person/gamer. Or you just want a private space to sleep at night. Like you go to your sleepout 1 hour before bed, read a bit, you enjoy a private conversation with your spouse, you take some time to process the thoughts of the day in your diary/journal before going to bed. And you spend literally all of the rest of your time in your main home.
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Or for me, set up a normal social life: set up an old windows box as a server, phpbb forum, mirc channel/server, ventrilo/teamspeak server, host some half life one engine servers (counter strike 1.5, half life one deathmatch, day of defeat, natural selection 3.2, the specialists, team fortress classic, Garry’s mod(?)) - no matchmaking. And UT2004, Quake3arena? You know, a normal social life!? And also, make sure we have some file sharing for off the grid rock music, and counter-culture stuff. Like materials that oppose the institution/tradition/custom of intellectual property (patent law and copyright law. That is total abolition of patent law and copyright law in New Zealand and Australia)?? The new underground! It’s about having a normal social life again. Conducted in private.
And you can even lend your place (or a bit of space) to a few of friends who want a bit of privacy for a normal, in person, face-to-face conversation, over a cup of tea.
New idea for the fenced faraday courtyard, use a small cabin like this. Also maybe make the fences 100% wood, and 12 ft high. That might be enough. And have a nicely plumbed outhouse in the courtyard. As well as a sturdy outdoor laundry sink (as an all purpose sink), and you might actually be very comfortable out there! Just use it as your bedroom, and maybe say, “I just want to keep the Government out of my bedroom.” And you still live most of your waking life outside of this courtyard.
I kinda feel like this page ought to be mostly for people who are hoping to actually do one of the projects? Like a DIY self funded thing. And the best way to do it is to do it because you desire privacy for its own sake. Along with social life conducted in private, and a mental life conducted in private. Not for other things like politics downstream.
Think in abstractions: These “electromagnetic rays” have to do multiple bounce backs between the earth and the satellites (or between multiple cell towers while bouncing off of the earth) while intersecting your skull and spine and nerves just triangulate your position. Let alone read your brain waves or alter them. And they bounce many rays off of multiple “layers” of materials to figure out how to get the stuff back to the satellites or cell towers. And then average them out. And they reroute and average out heaps of stuff. So they have to do many passes through your brain. They also have to use interference patterns. But anyway, multiple passes. And if buoy surround yourself with a 4 metre thick 12 ft high wall of cans it should easily shield you. So you can have a simple 4by4 court yard inside a fence. Because these cans disrupt enough of the rays. It’s not about total coverage as though it’s just a camera watching you directly, that is, you don’t need an underground bunker with a metre thick steel over top of you from every single direction. I’m not 100%, but I think it works that way. I think you just need to disrupt the rays enough!! They try to make up for interference with extra computing power and infinite reroutes. But if they’re brute forcing it with more power, you can just interfere with enough material to get in the way. And I think that this stuff (crushed cans) might have an effect within like 20 metres (diminishing with distance) because the waves cover some space, and also have width, and they like to bounce off of multiple layers and surfaces. So if you have it in concentration in a location, it helps. And if you have a big concentration in one spot, it might disrupt this for 20 metres in every direction (diminishing with distance) (I think the underlying rays are high wave length radio waves with. Wave length of 20 metres). So it’s about scale! But anyway, if you have to make multiple passes through something like this, it’s over for the rays.
But also if you have a different situation where you spread them out, then every concentration of them might disrupt in an area of effect of about 20 metres (diminishing) which blocks out heaps if you had like a grid pattern of swimming pools or a circle of containers. The basic circle is fine for houses and caravans. I think. If I were to bolster it, I’d just fill in the gaps in the outer circle. And I think the whole thing is so strong it could contain a house and as many as 20-30 caravans.
Now this is engineering, not science. Sort of. And according to Petroski (or JE Gordon), sometimes the way to do engineering is to just test it. And if it works, it works. It’s just testing out multiple iterations until it’s good, cheap and reliable.
For an analogy, just imagine you have a sieve doing multiple sweeps of the waves, and this disrupts many many waves each sweep. Maybe a bad analogy, but it’s all I’ve got for now. Or maybe like chaff behind a plane to disrupt. Or stealth on a stealth plane or boat. I was inspired to think about it all when I visited Sir Ernest Rutherford’s old lab in the basement of the art centre in Christchurch, formerly the university of Canterbury buildings, now sold to a different organisation and used as an art gallery. His area is a museum, including his space for testing radio waves in the basement coat room. Every em ray that touches even a wafer thin layer of metal has a chance for the energy in that wave to be absorbed by that metal, or to be deflected. Because it’s all like energy in the aether, and waves, particles, whatever model you use. Vibrations? I dunno. Disruptions in the aether, like disruptions in water. And maybe energetic disruptions in aether just resolve into particles/packets when absorbed by the metal. I’m a bit fuzzy on this. But it’s a start.
Update 28 December, Anyway, I think the at the presence of this stuff causes the breakdown of the field/relationship within about 10-20 metres of it. However, it depends on the arrangement of the containers or pools. I think that if you had containers spaced out 20 metres apart in a grid pattern. They the whole grid might become secure, but if you had only one container, then you’re only shielded within few metre of it. But if you had four containers, even only half full, 20 metres out from a central point, then the central point might be clear. There is a field, or a relationship, and it relies on basic radio waves interposed on top of one another, and uses something like constructive and destructive interference. Those are the basic building blocks of the overall system, and if you can disrupt that, then they can’t get a good “handshake relationship” (analogy from like TLS internet stuff) between your brain/nervous system and the satellites or cell towers. Now, with physics, you actually use different “models” for describing phenomena at different levels. It is hard to explain what I mean in words. But I think that my theories are good enough to justify doing trials of my new innovative technologies. And just like Ehrlich, I don’t think that it matters if I use all of the right words. Furthermore, you can actually learn more by reading the old timey words used by the likes of faraday than you might think. Skip the “mathematical” stuff of Maxwell, and go straight to faraday (and maybe Rutherford). Look at the physical experiments, and their language associated with it. Look beneath and below that mathematics of it. This is not for everyone!!
I think it’s basically radio waves, but there are all of these relationships on top of the radio waves, and using the radio waves. But the trick is that the stuff you think you “know” about ordinary radio waves (electromagnetic spectrum radiation) might actually be just a “map”, “model” or representation of the underlying territory. Which when you boil it all down, is just “when we did this thing, who’s the phenomena happened”. And the best way to understand this is to…. Just read about the basic experiments that they did. It actually is just really good to read biographies of past scientists. It really is. And to try to replicate stuff by people like faraday. And also to just spend hours today dreaming and imagining the experiments. And tons of reading. I remember reading a book called Schroeinger’s kittens when I was 19. I was always reading.
I reckon waves are like a relationship between two points, and the idea of a wave is just like a “model”. I also feel that the idea of aether is really, really useful. Just as a model. Because you can then imagine that em waves are existing as “displacement” within the aether. Anyway, that’s enough for now. It is only through testing that we can see if the ideas work. Personally (as of today), I’d test it out by building a faraday sandwich around a cabin. But I’d double it up by putting two containers on each side. Like two layers of bread on each side.
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What would the product be like in the end?
Sell the sizzle, not the sausage.
It would give you peace and quiet, and freedom from the mind rot. A place of refuge where teenagers (particularly girls) can escape from the cruelty of their peers. And a place of privacy, where people don’t have to viscerally feel the creepiness of what other people are thinking about them. And also where you don’t feel that people are snooping on your personal thoughts, daydreams or other things (including slightly shady daydreams and other such thoughts). It would also mean that legitimate mainstream party activists and party members in mainstream parties would be able to deliberate and think in private. This would be very important for things like trade policy, as well as matters of conscience.
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I read this book on Christmas Day 2007 in the Wairarapa. Or most of it.
I also read Haruki Murakami's "what I think about when I think about running" on the same day. Which was my first exposure to Murakami.
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In 1950, Albert Einstein wrote to Erwin Schrödinger, reflecting on the foundations of quantum theory and the famous “cat” thought experiment: Dear Schrödinger, You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees that one cannot get around the assumption of reality—if only one is honest.
My quote, "you have to just kind of turn off your brain and be a little disconnected from reality" when it comes to thinking about radio waves. And see that the model of something is not the same as the thing itself. The ability for abstract thought is useful. As is the ability to use thought experiments and analogies. And avoid getting too mathematical too quickly!
Analogies are useful. And examples, like waves in a pool. Or visiting places like Rutherford’s lab. Or possibly visiting faraday’s lab, if it still exists.
Also, playing video games with three dimensional first person environments, and good physics engines help. Like half life one, and also Gary’s mod. This helps because I have been thinking about physics, graphics, light, waves and simulation of waves and light since I was 13. And also vectors, velocity and momentum and energy since I was a child. In video games you have equations and maths, but you’re just simulating things?? And you have an imaginary the dimensional space. And things ricochet?
The physics of video games can help you to think, especially if you want to make games. Or if you use physics exploits all day long (such as bunny hopping, wiggle walking, wall strafing, surfing(ugh) or such things) as a matter of course. It teaches a new angle on thinking. Now of course maths and physics at school, as well as dozens of books on engineering are important too. Such as the life stories of Telford, Brunel. And also books by JE Gordon, and Petroski. Landels, ancient engineering.
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Swimming pool grid. Homeless refugees stay here. Perhaps women with their children who have become homeless. And they move 50 cabins into the property. And down the road, 100 homeless men find a new place to stay in a similar grid. They fill it with tents, cabins, shacks, sheds, caravans and motor homes. Better explanation on the other pages on my other website (picture resolutions better there).
Build a grid of swimming pools.
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The back yard cabin model:
What if every little girl who doesn’t want to have her soul broken to pieces, and her heart hollowed out by the bullying of her peers and the constant observation of these satellites. By the feeling of never being alone. So that she can become a sex worker for life. What if they all have their fathers but them these things at the age of 13. And this kills off the supply of new and willing sex workers.
And also what if every stoner who works a dead end job but just doesn’t want to participate in society can buy a back yard cabin, and stay in it for 130/168 hours per weeks and never leave it. And he and his friends just hang out and get high or drink a little. And they’re totally off the grid mentally. And their homes become hangouts. People can talk normally, and socialise too. Play console games, cards or whatever.
And what if homeless can build these in people’s back yards, and shelter. Not all homeless, but many of them. In places like DC, NYC, Seattle, Denver. The sorts of people who can’t cope, because the world is too horrible to their brains.
And what if people like me, the cognitive outliers, can find a place of rest and peace. Like a Rivendell of the back garden.
And then what if we all can find a way to communicate. For example, by mirc, phpbb forums, or by snail mail. And we build new social relationships. But do it off the grid. And we totally rebuild our minds and our souls. We build new relationships, proper ones. Off the grid! Some of them are in person, face to face. Some of them are by letters and over the internet. Like at a distance. But either way, we can rebuild new and real relationships with that wonderful thing called privacy of mind. Which really is just not feeling crowded. We can be people again!
What if conversation and socialising are what build our souls, and turn us into “proper people”. And these places make that possible. And also, a lot of us just need a bit of rest and relaxation. Or a place of safety!! My father killed my father in law, for example. And my uncle killed his own elderly mother, Joyce.
Haha, what if they built them in the Republic of China (Taiwan), and in Japan. And could have better and more comfortable places to socialise, without having people inside your head? They could have normal friendships, relationships and conversations. At least inside the cabins.
Umm. And what if “dregvant defectors” aka fae who want to quit can “run away screaming like a little girl” and seek shelter in cabins for the next 5 years!!!!! And what if people shelter them.
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Conversation
Socialising
Relationships
Refuge
Rest and relaxation, recuperation
Girls not being bullied at home by their peers.
Perhaps also a good pace to engage in the “improvement of the mind”.
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It's possible that each one of these containers causes about 20 metres area of effect in every direction. That is, they have an effective range of a circle with a range of 20 metres. But the range diminishes.
But the bottom line is,,, maybe if you put three in your back yard, in a triangle, about 15 metres apart, then everything inside is safe. It might actually work that way. And then maybe you can fill that whole area with cabins, sheds and other modular housing. Or whatever.
The reason it might work this way, is that I think the radio wave building blocks are wide/long. And the triangulation function and bounce back tests to establish the "connection" and maintains strong "field" or whatever, it takes up a bit of distance.
But we won't know if we don't have testing done. Maybe if you have 3 in your back yard, that basically clears a bunch of space for backyard cabins. The only way to know, is to try it. Just a triangle. Figure out the range and effectiveness. But first just try sandwiching one cabin. I think. But then do a triangle!!
Or maybe a square. What I’m saying, is that it might actually be possible to clear a house or something, just by putting several containers around it. Maybe if you have a small house in a big section, you could just put a container hard up against the north, south, east, west walls of the house. And then it is private. You have peace and quiet. I actually don’t yet know the effective range of these things. Or the calculations for cloaking/shielding?
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Product idea:
Mexican Faraday Cabin Motel
Five containers and five cabins, each with plumbing inside. They’re in the back yard of a currently existing motel. American Citizens go to Mexico to enjoy having a bit of time and privacy away from the satellites. They get a bit of peace and quiet. All they need to do is hop across the border. The motels all have wired internet (Ethernet). They become widespread.
It could be very popular with American refugees.
Excuse the horrible picture:
The long rectangles are faraday containers, the short rectangles are cabins. The w squares are out-houses/portaloos. This would just be the tester model, of course. The second version would have indoor plumbing. Maybe push the containers and cabins hard up against one another.
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I used to be really into economics. In the same ways other people are into things like fantasy football, or study ww2 history. I also was an enthusiast about the subjects of engineering, science, design and technology. I used to study so much, independently. And read and learn about anything that I could find. I was a self directed education fanatic. I was too sick to do much else though.
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Shielded Tent City
I also really like the idea of a shielded tent city for homeless people in America.
Just put a 7 by 7 grid of containers spaced out with 15-20 meters apart, and it might just work. I think they might have range. And I think that their range might overlap and have a “multiplier” effect if you have lots of them in one area.
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The faraday cabin motel, If these things become more commonly available, then it might be possible for people to heal the damage done by constantly living under surveillance. I’d they can just have the option to at least stay a couple of weeks per year in one of these, and have normal conversations, and normal sleep. And stop worrying all of the time.
It could heal their minds and souls. They could relax again. It might be tremendously beneficial.
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New idea:
Plastic boxes full of aluminium pipe, not too thick/large. Find a 4 bedroom house. Use plastic containers with clip on lids. Put a floor to ceiling shelf made of metal. A workshop style shelf. Stack plastic boxes full of pipe on the shelves. Add more shelves to the room, until it is chock full. Do this for 3/4 bedrooms. And then also put a couple of containers outside, hard up against the side of the house. Especially on the side where the master bedroom is.
The Faraday Grid
Put up tents, cabins, sheds, or park vans, motorhomes, caravans or other dwellings in amongst the swimming pools. For best results, install things such as diesel generators, street lights, decent toilets/bathrooms and chillers/refrigeration for food. It could be suitable for things like homeless encampments in places like Los Angeles, Washington DC or New York. It could give people refuge from electronic harassment, and shelter them from the voices in their head (peace and quiet). Homeless people need shelter too, and not just from the elements. They are people and have value, even if they are aesthetically displeasing or seem unpleasant or difficult. It’s still in the ideas stage, and hasn’t yet been demonstrated to work. It’s about 10 metres between the centre point of each swimming pool by the way. And I think you might want at least 100m by 100m, and maybe you want 200m by 200m. I would do a 200m by 200m version, but perhaps 100m by 100m is good enough as a test. I think that scale matters for this sort of thing, because of the way their computer and radio wave systems work. Great for tent cities. You could even do it piecemeal, or do it using containers instead of pools. There’s another idea lower down the page about tent cities. Just below the Mexican motel idea. I actually think the faraday grid is an amazing idea that might work beautifully for homeless people tent cities. Only after the main one has been done.
Example of a suitable pool^
Or maybe shove a couple of faraday containers, or similar into your internal two car, high stud garage. And on on the rear side of your house add another one, hard up against the rear wall, and then another one on the far side of the house (away from the garage). After that, put up a bunch of sturdy metal workshop style shelves in your spare room, and then on them put a bunch of plastic boxes, pretty big ones, full of aluminium pipe, maybe 5cm diameter, 50cm long. Just an estimate. And then get 40 buckets with kids, fill them with aluminium pipe. And then put these 40 buckets around the house inside unused storage space. It might work. It’s a really smart idea!!
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