Faraday Barn
New updates: the best of these is the “a new and improved faraday barn” (garage). The second best is one labeled “public park”.
Easy idea:
A new and improved faraday barn (garage)
Something like this^ I think it’s the best and smartest option. It’s possibly the best one yet. It’s enough for a single person to live, and it’s all self contained, or can be. If you need more space, just build two garages. Or build a row of eight garages. And if you need more space, just build two rows of eight! Or four rows of eight! Just keep on building!
By the way, if you have a block of them. Like 32 of them in rows, then the spaces in between probably are safe to walk around in to socialise. I reckon. Or I would guess.
You take the “nook” and finish it with walls, floors and a ceiling. And install a toilet, shower, basin, washing machine and kitchen sink. As well as a rug, bed, couch etc.
This garage isn’t quite the right size, but something similar to this would be excellent.
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Another idea:
If you’re trying to economise on how much you’re spending, then try this out:
It allows you to economise on how much you’re spending on the basic garage itself. Maybe put stuff like a kitchen, bathroom and laundry, lounge and sleeping areas in it. It’s basically a garage conversion project. It’s a 56 square meter apartment (once you subtract the container in the middle of it).
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A bigger barn
This also looks good, but it is a bigger building project.
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Backyard tent
Just put a tent in between two faraday containers in your back yard.
Place two faraday containers 2.5 metres apart. Place a tent in between. Use a hose to get water to the tent. And just run into the house whenever you need the bathroom.
You will need a bed roll to sleep on, and a pillow.
You might also want a laptop, extension cable and an internet cable. You could make Skype calls to friends. Or type and print letters to send to friends.
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Public Park
Put two faraday containers in a park or public location. Use a gap 2.5 metres wide. Put a picnic table in between the containers and a picnic umbrella in the table.
Or put three or more containers spaced out two and a metres apart for more space to sit.
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Who does it? And where?
Amnesty international on a university campus.
Or someone in a weird place like Portland.
Or homeless people in America. Los Angeles encampments. Or Canada homeless people.
Or (seemingly) weird people in places like Berlin or other German cities.
It helps to restore conversation.
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Old stuff, you can skip it for now. It’s actually more important to read my story, about my life.
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Find a barn this shape and size.
Edit: reduce the gap between the containers to about 3-4 metres in the first version, not 9 by 9.
Either build the building yourself, or find one that is already in existence.
Put two 20ft faraday shipping containers into the building, full of crushed cans. Push these two containers to the sides of the building. What you have between those two containers is now usable as a studio apartment measuring 9 metres by 9 metres. Install bathroom, kitchen and laundry facilities, such as a shower, toilet and bathroom sink, and a kitchen sink and range hood, and a washing machine. Then you put in rugs, beds, couches, table, chairs, kitchen benches etc. It’s sorted. You’re finished. Just don’t bother with fancy stuff like insulation. But if you really feel like it, you could finish it properly. With stuff like insulation, carpet, underlay, proper dividing walls made out of 2by4 timbers and dry-wall, wall paper, nice lighting, proper heating and cooling. It’s not rocket science! It’s basically a barn conversion project, turning it into a place of refuge, sanctuary and solitude. Where else can you go to be alone in this maddening world?
And now you can become a shut in gamer geek! Or a shut in otaku manga girl with purple hair! Or a hikkikomori who hates everything. Or a stoic philosopher who needs solitude to develop ataraxia, or to write in his diary. Or a scientist or engineer who needs time to think (men like Gregor Mendel, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Michael Faraday, Thomas Telford, Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Alexander Graham Bell). Or an old person like my Grandma or Grandpa who just needs to be safe (both of my grandparents got killed by the system). Elderly people face tremendous danger at the hands of the system!
They could make a living working from home doing data entry, working as a remote call centre operator, teaching piano, tutoring math/English for high schoolers or as a YouTuber. They could also work as an academic. Or they could live off of savings if you have them. They could just hang out at home and game. They could even be a streamer. They could also be a politician who works from home, and telecommutes to parliament, for national security reasons. Especially in places like Sub Saharan Africa, the pacific or the Caribbean.
Just put two 20 ft shipping containers into a barn or large high stud garage. Put them 10 metres apart, fill them with crushed aluminium cans, and your mind is hidden from the system. You’ve “gone dark” to the system of satellites and cells towers.
By the way, if you build more than one in the same place, you probably end up with economies of scale. Like if you build four of them in a cluster.
I call it the faraday barn.
It’s a studio apartment sized living area in a barn. The amount of living space might be 9 by 9 metres.
It would be an ideal habitat for “electromagnetic refugees”. I.e. people who are in too deep and need a place to hide out, possibly for a few years. This would be great for both men and women. It might also prevent suicide in some cases, or the slow slide into destructive drinking or drug addiction.
One person buys it as a house, and then puts in a few bunks in there so that other friends can stay over for a few weeks, if they need to. He can raise money online for expenses, and so that he can afford to build more barns on his property. To shelter more people. It’s ready for testing. Making prototypes.
By the way, Bill Gates (and other people) tested out the physics and computational theory by just building a container. And the underlying physics works. “Just building a container” was the test. (I mean, a lot of it is just mathematics, statistics and Moore’s law, as well as understanding triangulation and statistics based targeting). And it just needs testing to see if the actual “barn model” works. The underlying stuff of the container has been tested already.
It’s kind of like a “de-constructed” refugee camp. You don’t have to have them all in one spot though.
You convert a barn into a shielded studio apartment.
It’s a faraday barn.
Edit:
Here is another iteration:
This one above might work well with a finished and furnished “nooks” type of deal. This one with four containers and one “American barn” is my favourite at the moment. For discussion of nooks go to the bottom of the new ideas page (skunk works). FWIW, I have been told that simply putting a container on each of the four corners of a barn doesn’t fix the problem. So a four corners model isn’t quite strong enough. I can’t confirm it properly though, haven’t seen it with my own ideas.
And another:
Maybe a few garden sheds full of cans around the place might help. Perhaps two on the north wall and two on the south wall.
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I borrowed this from my ideas page.
Update: some people tried it out. With a barn. Four cornering a barn wasn’t strong enough. This is the next way to test it out. Or at least one version.
Four in a row, with a three metre gap in between each. Nestle beds, desks, tables, chairs, a fridge, a toilet, a basic kitchen sink, with hose to drain it to an outside drainage point, a couch, a rug, bunks.
This version is just one prototype. Then they try out various types of fill, in the next iteration. Steel scrap, iron scrap. Iron pipes packed into boxes and stacked. Steel pipes packed into boxes and stacked. Maybe copper is tried out too (that might be a bit expensive though).
Trying out different materials seems like a good idea to me. Like iron or steel pipe packed into boxes, then packed into shipping containers. I’m honestly not sure if iron, steel or aluminium is the best metal for this.
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More ideas: furnished and finished “nooks”.
Next thing to try out is fitting the 3 by 6 meter spaces out with walls, floors and ceilings. They create comfortable “nooks”. For example, they might be built as follows. They have wooden framing made of ordinary 2x4. They have plywood or plasterboard walls, tile floors, mesh ceiling, with insect netting over top. A large fan on top for ventilation, and electronic lighting. Normal light switches, wallpaper, plug sockets (aka power points), a lockable door on the front of the nook. You have maybe one nook as the bedroom area, with desks and bookshelves as well. One nook as the lounge/dining area. Built like a normal dining and lounge area, and another nook built for kitchen, bathroom and laundry, with lockable door. Each nook has walls, floors and a ceiling. And doors and windows on the front, electric lighting and normal plug sockets (aka power points), as well as Ethernet networking cables into them. The kitchen and bathroom nook has ordinary plumbing, a normal flushing toilet, a normal bathroom basin and a shower/bath. It also has a large kitchen sink that doubles as laundry sink, a washing machine and a condensing dryer. It has a normal free standing electric oven with four elements and a pantry. If the location is cold, maybe you have heaters. If it is too hot, maybe you have air conditioning - but then you have to do the calculations of… ceilings open to the air or not (mesh and insect netting or sealing up the roof).
Maybe an example of the type of building? I’m not sure exactly what sort of barns and sheds are most useful. Or commonly available.
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The Faraday Shielded Nook
Or maybe even just a couch.
You could just have a couch there, and a table and chairs. Use it to relax during the day. Or just a few beds, and everyone in the family sleeps there at night.
Or maybe you put a prefab bathroom in there, plumb it in. Add in bunks, a fridge and a freestanding oven. And people just plain live there full time.
Or… and this is the best idea, you actually build a proper room there. A proper room. With a floor, walls and ceiling. You build it with wood, drywall, wallpaper, floorboards, chipboard, underlay and carpet. You have a painted, plastered ceiling. You have proper lights and light fixtures, proper light switches, and proper power points, a proper door that opens and closes and locks. Proper windows to let in light (this is easier because you’re under the shelter of the barn itself). An enclosed toilet and shower. A kitchen sink, an oven and one small piece of actual kitchen bench. You have actual wired internet connected, and an intercom to the main house, and you even have a cat door and a Turkish rug and pictures hanging on the walls. It’s basically a studio apartment. A fully finished and furnished studio apartment that has gone totally “dark to the system”.
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(Note: the barns are 20 by 10).
Here are a few things to consider:
Here is a barn with four containers in it, spaced 2.5 metres apart. This should give you three nooks that can theoretically be enclosed (like with ordinary walls, floors, ceiling) and then finished and furnished. Like actually nice spaces for living. One for living quarters and lounge, one for kitchen and dining, and one for bathroom and laundry.
The second one is an “extra strong nook”, just in case the basic nook consisting of only two containers doesn’t work strongly enough. And then you can enclose, furnish and finish it.
What else?
Probably the best thing to try to build is just a basic nook, measuring 6 metres by 2.5 metres in a barn. Just put two containers 2.5 metres apart, and see if it works. That’s the next test. It’s an experiment.
If it works, I would then expand it to be four containers in a barn, spaced 2.5 metres apart from one another. That would be the next test.
And then I would try it with mild steel pipe inside wooden boxes second, or any kind of boxes. And see if that material is better or worse in terms of effectiveness.
That’s it for now.
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If the basic nook didn’t work, I might try doubling up the containers on either side of the nook (just 2.5 metres by 6 metres shielded for a small apartment, sandwiched between two faraday containers on each side). And if that didn’t work, I would try the extra strong nook. By the way, these ideas are for people who actually want to try it. It’s meant to be practical!
And once the technology works, we can “create economies of scale”, and improve construction methods, and it will get cheaper.
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The barn with nooks:
Four nooks, which can later be enclosed, furnished and finished. Or you could just leave it all open and use it as like a rudimentary camp, bringing mattresses, and sheets hung from ropes to divide up the space. Put in laundry, bathroom facilities and kitchen facilities. And put bunk beds everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.
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But if you enclose it, you could turn it into a family home or into four separate apartments.
Plumbing, electrical and internet are all normal.
Three pictures, of roughly the same thing.
I hope it is clear to people what I mean.
The barn pictured is 20 metres by 10 metres. And the dotted lines are supposed to be the front wall of the enclosed areas. The enclosed areas would be about 2.5 metres by 6 metres (possibly could be larger, but keep it 2.5 metres at first).
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Warehouse idea
Edit:
Update,
Of maybe even a barn or warehouse this size? 20 by 25 metres. I’m still learning about how commercial realestate works.
Sample, not perfectly to scale. But it is about 20 by 25 metres.
Barn or warehouse, it doesn’t matter. As it so happens, I prefer the idea of rural barns. I think rural barns will work much better. Due to improved security, isolation, better “property rights” situation, cheaper square footage. But this looks like a good example. Imagine 20 of these warehouses in the same area in Spain, Italy, Greece, Philadelphia or England. Each nook measures 6 by 2.5 metres. Each container measures about 6 metres by 2.5 metres.
Personally, I would just do four nooks. And leave the whole other side clear and open. It would be much easier. I would only do one half. That is, nine containers. It gives you a ton of breathing room that way.
Above: To me, this is a refugee camp. You could fit 18 people in it. As well as a bathroom and kitchen area. With plenty of room left over. Repeat this pattern 50 times in every major city in a place like Birmingham, and then we’re getting close to the right sort of scale. Although, the main thing is to test out this type of building.
I really like this version. This model^. If it is tested out (9 containers, with four nooks, in a warehouse or barn, and it works. Then I think it will spread.
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Next, a bigger place:
Or what could you do with a place this size??
It’s huge, 40 by 40.
How many refugees could you fit in there?
How big of a refugee camp could that one become?
One hundred people? Two hundred people?
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I like spoof movies, like hot shots!, mars attacks, Austen powers, Reckless Kelly, Young Einstein, Galaxy Quest, Kung Fu Hustle, Shrek and other great spoof movies.
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The best example on the page
Here is another example. It is a warehouse in Onekawa, which is just a couple of suburbs over from where I used to live in Taradale. The shape is a little awkward, but something like this would work if the owner wanted to do it. You might be able to fit five or so nooks in it. It’s a skunkworks still though! The scale of this one is realistic and appropriate.
You could put accomodation in the two nooks on the left and the two on the right. And in the middle put a bathroom, kitchen and the laundry. It could house a fair few people quite comfortably. Between 8 and 24 I think. Depending on how tightly you pack people in.
It’s a home for four couples. Or a refugee camp for 4 couples, or 24 singles. It would be pretty cramped for that many people though (twenty four). You put up walls and doors, to make individual cabins. Electricity and plumbing and internet would be fairly conventional. You take the books and enclose and finish them with walls, floors and ceilings. You use carpet or lino, wallpaper, plaster and paint. You use proper light fittings and power points. You have heat pumps and air conditioning, you have heaters and fans and cooling. Everything is properly and correctly installed. Fully furnished, with proper beds, tables, chairs, couches, shelves, desks, and even a television. Maybe even cable TV and fiber optic internet. A normal bathroom with a shower, toilet, sink, mirror, and even cupboards under the sink. A normal kitchen with everything like a fridge, stove, oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and a double kitchen sink. Everything normal. An ordinary washer/dryer to do your clothes. An ordinary letterbox, good security, CCTV cameras etc. all of the normal things. You could even have pets like cats or dogs; or fish, rabbits or Guinea pigs. Please take a look at the actual advertisement for that warehouse though. It’s an incredibly realistic warehouse.
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Make it a home or a house for one family.
A family home with an office.
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Or it could be a family home. For just one family, with five rooms. You have space for three bedrooms, a bathroom, laundry, kitchen and a dining + lounge area. You could actually divide it up further, to make it four bedrooms, a study (or office), and a bathroom, laundry, kitchen and a dining + lounge area, as well as a study. Those spaces (nooks) are 2.5 metres wide by 6 metres long.
The office could just as easily be a classroom, yoga teaching studio (small classes), room for teaching meditation, fitness, or running a business. Perhaps try copying out the image to scale, and figuring out for yourself how it could work for you. Brainstorm!
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