Protection from Dirty Electricity

Lloyd: Because of the shielding of these other three elements, is that what you’re saying?

 

BD: That’s correct.

 

Lloyd: So can we go just very quickly, back the basics? Some people may be confused by part of the conversation we’ve had already. We’ve gone a little bit in-depth very quickly. So perhaps you could give us your definition of EMFs and also EMI because that is also relevant to this conversation, and perhaps explain where dirty electricity fits into all of this.

 

BD: Sure. I apologize to you and our readers for going too quickly too deep down into the rabbit hole. So let’s start at an easier level. I love the way the EMF Practical Guide starts, your book. I love that it starts with tobacco and cigarettes.

 

Lloyd: Thank you.

 

BD: That’s really the way I like to table it for a lot of people. A lot of people might ask a question that’s very reasonable. “Hey, if dirty electricity is real, why does the power company allow it? If these levels are bad for you, why doesn’t the government regulate it? Where does it come from? How do I measure it?” etc. The reality is that dirty electricity has some aspects that may get dirty electricity and some pretty standard causes. Sometimes, we have to look to ourselves for a solution. We know that Rome had the aqueducts and they were fantastic. We also know that Rome delivered water via lead to its people for hundreds of years. So it was a real breakthrough technology. Yet, it had this unknown side effect. We know in the ‘50s, USA, the Department of Energy wanted to reduce energy costs. So they blew asbestos into every school, every government building, that later had bad effects. We know that GIs got cigarettes. We know that babies’ cribs had lead paint, and we know that a lot of plastic chew toys for babies had PPB plastics and plastics that were bad for them. So, unfortunately, as the world changes, as the world morphs, as technologies come out, there are sometimes unforeseen side effects. So dirty electricity, electricity has some standards by which it’s regulated by which it’s standardized. First of all, it’s 60Hz. What is that? That’s really simple, it’s how often the wave crests. If you’ve been on a lake and it’s kind of a stormy day and the waves come in - it’s a wonderful, peaceful sound to sleep to in my opinion - they hit the beach quite frequently. Now, if you’ve ever laid on the beach in Waikiki or Hawaii, these huge waves seem like they pull out for a block, they make these huge mountainous waves and they crash, how many times do the wave crash on the beach in one minute, is frequency. How frequently it occurs? In the US, that should be 60. If I’m going to water my lawn, I’m going to go outside and I’m going to gently turn on my spigots so that I can water first my lilies. I don’t want to blow to top off my lilies. I want it to just drip. Now Lloyd, the chihuahua from next door comes over and takes a dookie in my yard, and because I’m a sinful and imperfect man, I put my thumb over the hose and I squirt it in the bottom because I’m a rascal. What I did by putting my thumb over it? I raised the voltage because the voltage is the pressure. I’m going to wash my automobile now, Lloyd. So I go back to my faucet and I really crank it up. More water’s coming out. The other name for amperage in electricity is current. The water is the current. So those three things really are the most crucial aspects of electricity. Do I have my thumb over or not? That’s the voltage, the pressure. How much water is coming out, that’s the current or the amperage. When you multiply volts with amps, you get watts. So you want electricity, within the standard of the US, it’s 120V. Next, when I was a kid, when I would come home from school and watch TV, my mom would vacuum, sometimes cleaning before my father got home from work. When she would vacuum, it would put lines on my television. As a youth, I would jump up and mess with the ears because the rabbit ears on the telly, that’s how I got good viewing, right? But I know now as an adult that it didn't have anything to do with my signal. So what’s happening is clean power was coming into my mom’s vacuum. The motor was creating harmonics and distortion. It was returning on the parallel line, on the neutral line, and affecting my TV. Now, my mom didn’t climb behind the TV to plug it into the same outlet. That’s nonsense. She plugged it in someplace where she had a lot of cord room, right, where she can vacuum a lot of space without moving. So what happens to that electricity is by the use of a device, it gets degraded. It adds THD, total harmonic distortion, waves that are different than that 60Hz primary wave. This is an example of this; you’re on the lake again and you’re watching the waves hit the beach, and then a motorboat goes by. Now, the motorboat creates its own set of waves that are now crossing and hitting the beach. Another motorboat comes by and he’s pulling a water-skier. The boat has a big deep wave and the water-skier has a smaller wave but it’s still there. Now, you’re not getting one clean wave hitting the beach. You’re getting four, five, six different waves hitting the beach. That’s one way that I like to explain what happens with dirty electricity. But now, we’re going to add the fields. We’re going to add the electric fields caused by the voltage. We’re going to add the magnetic fields caused by the amperage, those two things we talked about, and interference. HAM radio guys love our products because they’re trying to catch a wave that’s coming from halfway across the world. What happens is interference. That’s when waves from one wire or one signal can cross and interfere with the waves or signal on another wire. Getting back to why the government doesn’t regulate it, you know what? For the most part, they are a byproduct of the electrical and technical world that we live in. They’re hard to avoid in occurrence. They’re sure easy to stop if you’re looking for them. They’re sure easy to filter once you’re aware and cognizant. They really come from three primary places. Do you mind if I go there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

watch TV. I want to do some things. I want to use my juicer for a healthy drink. So I’m going to further degrade the quality of this electricity. Our world has changed dramatically. Dirty electricity, it’s not like you could argue if it’s real. It’s real beyond contestation. It’s real, it’s measurable. There’s lots of names; harmonic distortion, electromagnetic interference, electromagnetic fields, and frequencies, and waves. It’s real beyond contestation. We can’t argue if it’s harmful. It’s harmful beyond contestation. Now, in the United States, I can’t say that it’s harmful to you without potentially looking at some trouble with the FDA because in the United States, the FDA is very particular about what you say is good for you or bad for you. But it’s been well-documented on cows, Kerrygold, Marigold, I mean, these giants, these billion-dollar industries of cheese and butter and sour cream and ice-cream and all these things have well-documented that the quality, the taste, the production, the volume of the milk is degraded by dirty electricity. Canada, it’s cold, it’s a frozen tundra. Man, they want cantaloupes and strawberries. How do they get them? Oftentimes without importing, greenhouses. I’ve seen hundreds of well-documented studies by greenhouse growers where you can literally see the strawberry plant growing towards the light or water or nourishment, growing away from the dirty electricity, away from the power lines. The size, quality, the taste of these succulent fruits and vegetables is definitively affected by dirty electricity. I’m not a strawberry, I’m not a cow, but I’m biological. I’m cellular. I operate quite similarly. It’s not whether or not it’s real. It is. It’s not whether or not it’s harmful. It is, beyond contestation. It’s really how much and where and how. So it’s like if you don’t smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, that’s wise. Why? Because it’s harmful. If you smoke one cigarette in college 20 years ago, I think you’re going to be okay. Right? Would you eat fast food every day of your life? No, you’ll get bloat. But if you eat one fry occasionally, you’re going to be okay. So we know those things are harmful. It’s well-documented. Nobody argues it. But it’s really about how much. So it’s real, measurable, and harmful. But now, how much? Dirty electricity comes from three places. Number one, it comes from the utility. Number two, now I am creating it in my own home and some drastic things have happened. That’s where I’m going with this. I’m in my late 40s. When I grew up as a youth, there was no cell phone, laptop, tablet. My first Macintosh was 512k Mac. It was one of the first electronics. Then at some point, we got the fax machine. Something happened. What happened is that little black box that’s in the cord, we began to get these cords to the printer, the fax, the computer, the little black box in the cord, and you have to have that cord to use it. That cord either changes frequency, it changes to direct current with diodes, it changes voltage, it begins to distort this clean electricity. Then we added all these DC devices. If it has a battery, it’s direct current. Your phone, your laptop, your tablet, your pad, they work on direct current. We live in an alternating current world. Direct current is great, alternating current is great. They don’t play well together because they fundamentally operate differently. So it wasn’t like all of a sudden, I had a printer. Everybody had two. It wasn’t like I had a fax machine. Everybody got a fax machine. I got a cellular phone, everyone got a cellular phone. Now, everyone in every family has a cellular phone, and they have a tablet. So this huge change came. Getting back to compact fluorescent lights, we each had 30 things in our home that cleaned our electricity. Now, we each have 30 things in our home that drastically dirty electricity. The thought process behind this was lowering the watts, lowering the power. But it, foreseen or unforeseen, accidentally or purposely, had a huge side effect of drastically increasing the amount of dirty electricity in every American’s home, beyond contestation. So we are no longer smoking one cigarette in college, Lloyd. We’re now smoking one pack a day. We didn’t mean to but that’s what happened. Number one comes from the utility. Number two, I’m making it inadvertently in my home. Number three, it comes wirelessly. When I was a kid, my cars had antennas. Cars had antennas. You could untwist it and whack your pal on the tush with it. When you’re in town, you got FM radio. When you got out of town, you got AM radio. That antenna is how you got it, right? Back then, you got four signals, Lloyd. There was AM, FM for radio, and then there was UHF and VHF for televisions. Those were the four main signals. I light my phone up right now, I’m going to see my printer, my neighbor’s, my WiFi, my neighbor’s WiFi, their TV dish network, their cell, my cell network, you can’t believe how many there are. So number one, there are millions of signals out there. Number two, our antennas on our car were two, two and a half feet of aluminum. Your home is high-quality copper wiring. A mile of it. So you’re living now in a super antenna. So where do waves land? They land on antennas. What’s a mile of copper wiring? It’s a super antenna. So we’ve got it coming from the utility whether want to or not, nefarious or not. I’m making it in my home, purposely or unpurposely, and I’m living in a super antenna. So we just discussed three things. Is it real? Beyond contestation. Is it harmful? Beyond contestation. Do I have it? Beyond contestation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

primary frequency, the waves hitting the beach, and Ohm’s Law of Resistance. So what Ohm said, working off Faraday, is that as I push current down a conductor, as I use voltage (pressure) to push the current (water) down the electrical line, some will be lost along the way as heat. When you’re pushing a car, you’re working against the resistance of the tire on the road. Right? So as you push electricity down a wire, you lose some resistance along the way. That resistance turns into heat. So we have two main types of electrical loads, conductive and resistive. Now, a resistive load, what does it do? It resists. It pushes back. It doesn’t want the electricity so it pushes back. Now, because of the resistance in Ohm’s Law, if you push back and resist, you get heat. What’s a burner on your stove? It’s a big resistor. So your stove, in America, we use 120 and 240V wiring, and 230, 240 in the UK. But in the US, it’s one of those rare breakers in our breaker panel that has two legs and it’s 240. Why? That higher voltage pushes harder as it hits the burner on the stove, because of Ohm’s Law, creates resistance and heat. That resistance and heat cleans electricity. Cleans it wonderfully so because it takes those abnormalities now, just turns them into heat. On a hot day, you might not want the heat but on a chilly day, it’s delightful. If you’d like to boil some spaghetti noodles or cook a turkey, it’s wonderful. So one of the easiest ways to clean electricity is simply to convert those forms of electricity that we don’t like into heat. Now, the incandescent light bulb works on resistance. We have a little guy on the left, the anode, and then we have a little tungsten filament, and then we have the guy [inaudible 35:53] the cathode. We have the anode and the cathode, and then we have the filament, the tungsten filament in the middle. When a light bulb burns out, what really happens is that the tungsten filament in the middle broke. When he’s operating, what he’s doing is he’s resisting. So he’s creating heat. So that resistance and that heat is very effective at cleaning electricity. So a true incandescent light bulb - and they’ve really tried to take those away from us for some reason - that resistance and that heat absolutely cleans dirty electricity by turning those unwanted byproducts of dirty electricity into a byproduct of heat and light. So what's a simple, fundamental, useful way to clean electricity? Turning on your iron, do you know when you’re ironing your trousers, the dirty electricity in your home is lower? It’s because you’ve added a resistor.

 

Lloyd: So turning on your oven, can we say the same?

 

BD: Absolutely. Definitively.

 

Lloyd: So these electrical items that are creating heat, by and large, is it all cases?

 

BD: All cases. When your hot water - not if it works on natural gas or propane, etc., we’re talking electrical - when it’s on, it’s creating heat and it is cleaning the electricity. So that is a resistive load. So anything really - for the most part - that’s a resistive load, can aid in reducing dirty electricity. Now, the other type of load is inductive. So if one pushes right, or resists, what does the other one do? It pulls. It induces. It’s inductive. It’s like sucking on a straw, right? So two types of load; resistive that pushes back, and inductive that pulls. So your air-conditioner, your motor, your refrigerator, your freezer, your dishwasher, your Harvey grinder, these have a motor, they induce and pull. So when they pull, they have a coil or a motor. So electromagnetic fields, again, being real and measurable, one of the favorite demonstrations that I use, each of our techs have two magnets on their desk, very strong magnets. When you put them pole to pole, they repel. They push apart. If it’s a very good magnet, it’s very hard to connect them. Now, you can’t see it but it’s real. And then, one of them will twist in your hand and go to the opposite pole and they snap together. They almost clip your finger. So even though you can’t see that, you don’t deny once you touch it that it’s real. So as a child, I loved trains. I just love these huge monstrous things that would have 100 cars, 120 cars sometimes in Montana, with coal. We have a lot of coal in Montana so we see these trains that have 100, 120 cars full of coal. The car might weigh 10 tons, 20 tons, just one car, and there’s 100 of them. How does it get moving? What a lot of people don’t realize is that trains are electric. There are electric DC motors and the diesel motors in the train’s engines, all those are making electricity. They’re not driving the wheels. You have a coil which is a copper wire wound many times, and then you have magnets, several inches potentially, an inch or so away. When the conductor hits the gas, hits the throttle, more voltage is applied to that coil, and creates that electromagnetic field and that magnet pack starts to spin. Nothing is touching. All of a sudden, from a dead stop, 100 cars at 10 or 20 tons each begin to inch and move with no touching parts. It’s moved by a field. It’s extraordinary. It’s almost unfathomable that it’s true. That’s how it works. So that field affects the rest of the electricity. So that same thing is happening in your coffee grinder, on a much smaller scale. The same thing is happening in your refrigerator freezer. That electromagnetic field distorts the waveforms for electricity. It has an effect on it. So every time those things turn on, two things happen. Number one, they induct. They pull. They suck. So there’s an inrush of current that creates fields. Number two, they excite the coil, they create this electromagnetic field which has an effect on electricity and all things biological. So one type of load, resistive, creates heat and cleans electricity. The other one is inductive, it pulls and it distorts electricity, and it causes dirty electricity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from being on every major corner, to gone. Now, we stream things. So some of those things have happened to the grid. As we talked about, we got rid of incandescent light bulbs that clean. We have CFLs for a short time. Now, we have LED, light-emitting diode. A diode is one way, it’s direct current. So they’re strobing. A lot of people don’t know that your LED is strobing 120 times every second. That’s just how they work. Your laptop, your phone, your tablet, they’re all DC. Who could have foreseen it that everybody now has these 20 DC devices in their home that are distorting the waveforms, and now a couple of things happen. Number one, cryptocurrency. So there’s another type of loadout there that we haven’t discussed yet and that’s the switched-mode power supply. That’s something that’s converting the AC and the DC, or changing the voltage or changing the frequency like a VFD, variable-frequency drive. Computers, switched-mode power supply. As we talked about, every home has one or three computers now. What about crypto mining? Missoula, Montana is I believe the second or third-largest cryptocurrency mining facility in the world, the biggest in the US at last report. We’re talking about 40MW of switched-mode power supplies. How could the grid have foreseen that? Now, the legalization of marijuana. I think some of the health benefits of marijuana are now quite clear. They’re growing a lot of these indoors. What’s that take? It takes the lighting which distorts the waveforms, and some other things. The proliferation of solar power, a mega DC device right on the home. So again, I don’t lay the blame at the government’s feet. It’s not who I am. I don’t lay the blame on the utility’s feet. Do they share some complicity? It doesn’t really matter because crypto mining is here and it’s changed our world. Computers are here and they changed our world. Indoor growers, marijuana specifically because it’s just so new and hip and there are so many of them, have changed our world. So can the utilities keep up at the speed of technology? Not like they can.

 

Lloyd: It’s really more about the devices than the grid itself. It’s just the grid wasn’t designed for what we’re using it for today. Technology has gone in this way for a whole load of reasons. It seems mainly about saving energy. That was the initial reason. And the grid wasn’t designed for these kinds of switched-mode power supplies and this pollution that it now has. Hence, why we need to deal with it. My question is, I know your flagship product is to filter dirty electricity, which is the Satic Shield. Perhaps you pronounce it differently than me.

 

BD: We say Satic, that’s how we say it.

 

Lloyd: Okay.

 

BD: No worries, mate.

 

Lloyd: So my question is what do you recommend to measure dirty electricity? That’s what I’m always recommending to people, is to actually get measurements when dealing with all these kinds of EMFs. Dirty electricity is one kind. We talked about the four principle kinds here today. So we’re always wanting to measure those four principal kinds; the radio frequency, the electric fields, the magnetic fields, and this dirty electricity. So that’s my question, what do you recommend to measure that?

 

BD: I love that you just tossed me the ball. I have really tried to not be a sales pitch because we get hit with it so much. We want to know facts, we want to know the truth. So Satic has designed a brand-new dirty electricity meter. We just felt it was time for something new to be available to people because when you go on the internet and you hear all this reality about the fact that dirty electricity is real and it’s indeed harmful and that you’re probably living in a lot of that, in a reaction of fear maybe, we want to buy something to stop it. I like to tell customers, don’t go right to, “I’m going to buy something and fix it.” Let’s identify it first. Let’s see how much you got. Let’s see where it’s coming from. I’ll tell you the truth, in most cases, you can, if you’re able to measure and identify, you can drastically reduce the amount of electropollution in your home with some simple steps. So you got to start there. But it’s really hard to start there if you can’t measure it. So Satic has a new EMI meter. We have it at www.saticshield.com. This is not just a meter. It’s a comprehensive testing kit so that you can see your dirty electricity and the several components to it. Number one is the outlet and wiring tester. A lot of dirty electricity just comes from buggy wiring. If you’re neutral and ground are slopped on your outlet or they’re bonded, you’re going to have dirty electricity. That’s a $12 fix, Lloyd. But if you plug in your device and it works, you don’t think a thing of it. So the first part of the kit is an outlet tester that has all the variations of the reverse bond, reverse neutral, ground and neutral voltage and all those things. So the first thing you test is the outlets. And I’d be darned in America if you’ve got 30 outlets if 2 aren’t buggy. Great, we just fixed it for free! And now, we’re living in less and our devices are going to last longer.

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Lloyd: Is this on your website?

 

BD: Yes.

 

Lloyd: I can’t see it.

 

BD: So on Satic Shield, you go to Shop, go to Testing, and you’ll see the kit. The kits come with guides, some of it I stole right out of my friend’s EMF Practical Guide. I took it from Lloyd because it’s practical, really. It’s usable. So I’ve quoted you in there a couple of times, saying “These are what the experts are telling you to do. This is where you go. This is where you find it. But you got to do some research.” So we give you a clipboard, we give you a pen and you test all of our outlets. We want you to test every single outlet first with the outlet tester to make sure it’s wired right. Then, test with the dirty electricity meter to see the amount of dirty electricity you have. Then, filter it and see the change. Is the change big or little? Is the change not there? Why? We want you to test all of your outlets and we want you to do them three times; morning, midday, and evening because they’re going to be different every time. If your LEDs are a major cause in the morning, you don’t need your lights on. You got your windows open. It’s beautiful. Natural light’s better. But at night, when the windows are shut now and it’s dark outside, our lights are on. During midday, our neighbor’s solar is cranking at 8K, and that affects you. So we really want to comprehensively help you identify where it is, where it’s coming from and is it something that we can fix ourselves. Only buy filters if it’s something we can’t fix ourselves, silly. If you can fix it yourself, then that’s what you got to equip yourself to do. If you’re smoking two packs a day, there are two things you can do. Number one, you can start smoking filtered cigarettes, or you can quit smoking. Come on, right? If you can, you want to quit smoking. You want to stop the things that are causing it. So if we can stop the things that are causing it, then you don’t need to buy any of my stuff.

 

Lloyd: And honestly, the kit is great. I’ve not seen that before, so that’s a great little package, EMI meter, Satic Pulsed LED - I’m not sure what’s that for.

 

BD: Okay, great. So we have three main product lines. First of all is our filters and our filters you either plug in an outlet or they’re wired in your panel. We make products for all of the world, in all the varying voltages; single-phase, three-phase, US, UK, you can plug them in or wire them at the panel. That’s number one. Number two, our LEDs do not add EMF or EMI. I just told everybody to quit smoking if you can. But then, you can’t walk around the dark. They’ve made incandescent lights so hard to get. If you can get an incandescent light that’s good over Satic’s, you buy it right now. But if you’re having a hard time finding incandescent lights that would last, then the only next choice is the Satic light because we’ve built our technology into the light so that they’re not adding EMF, EMI, or dirty electricity. So we put one of those in the kit, and we say, grab one of your LEDs to start identifying the culprits in your house.