Electricity can shock people, could it ever be possible to do the same thing with radiowaves ?
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Would you believe, yes?\n\nI worked at a steel mill, with our base station radio sitting on the desk next to me.  This radio had a little metal 6" antenna sitting on top of it...\n\nNow, if you were not transmitting, you could touch the antenna with no problem.  When you transmitted, there was enough RF coming out of that little thing that if you held your hand close to the antenna - not even touching it - you would feel a 'buzzing'...  Similar to an electric current, but not quite...\n\nI've no idea how much wattage was being put out, but it was a little base station...  Increase that significantly, and I'm sure you could shock the tar out of someone...\n\nBeing said, consider that RF waves ARE electrical waves, at least in part.  Yes, I know they are part of the electromagnetic spectrum which does include visible light, but why do you suppose it's called the electromagnetic spectrum?\n\nThe Tesla coils mentioned earlier are RF generators (or rather, can be, with tuning...)
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theoretically this is possible if you give out strong electromagnetic radiation, though I think you are just lying
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the jury is still somewhat "out" on that question.  Electromagnetic fields are discussed at length regarding cell phones.  Same thing.
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You need an energy transformer machine.  You put sound in, press the sound-to-electricity button and out comes electricity.  Make sure you have a storage cell attached or you'll get shocked.
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No it is not possible at this time and I doubt anyone will ever attempt it for a couple of reasons.  From NASA's webpage you can read the rest by clicking on my sources link\n\n1. Most of the power in lightning is dissipated as thunder and light, which cannot be easily harnessed to generate electric power.\n2. However, even just the electrical current of lightning is considerable -- 20,000 amps on average, the same as 100 steel welders. But the power is on for only a brief fraction of a second, so the total power is actually small, only enough to power a 100-watt light bulb for six months.\n3. The huge surge of electrical current over very brief times makes storing the energy impractical.\n4. Lightning strikes to specific locations are infrequent and inconsistent. This makes scheduling power availability impractical.\n5. Lightning can be very damaging. The collection systems have to be incredibly robust, which would drive up costs. Lightning is also very dangerous, making it tough on the collection system workers.\n6. Lightning would have to be collected over a huge area, making the system impractically expensive.\n\n#3 Its saying that lightning comes with an extreme burst of energy in a very short amount of time.  When it comes to electricity it takes awhile to build up, electricity created by a damn for example is created by the water and the turbines, it builds up slowly and is put into its reserve where ppl then draw from it.  If there was to be a massive spike were the water all of a sudden speed up to even 100mph the turbines would overheat and become useless.  Imagine charging a battery, instead of putting it on a charger and gradually letting it build up you just zapped it with a tazer or something.  Its not going to charge its going to explode.  Therefore it is impractical to store it becuase we have nothing that could take such a massive amount of energy in such a short time
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I would recommend not.  Two years ago, my Sony Vaio's telephone modem suddenly stopped working during a lightning storm.  The lights hadn't dimmed or anything, so I thought it was just a glitch.  The technician said that just because the power supply was protected by a surge protector, the phone line (which was not plugged into a surge protector) experienced a surge when a telephone box blew a few blocks away (it was a bad storm, but I just had to check my email).  The surge wouldn't have hurt someone on a normal phone, but was just enough to disrupt my delicate computer.  So unless its urgent, or you can work off the power grid (like a laptop), I'd just leave the computer turned off in a storm.
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Psychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz.\n\nPhysiological\nBurns: Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation: A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (eg, via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects: Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied).\n\nThe recommended first aid for someone who had received a severe electrical shock has three major components:\n1) Call for help \n2) Make sure the victim is no longer in contact with the electrical current source. Turn off all power if this can be done quickly. \n3) Check for breathing and heart beat and apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary \n\n[Also] "the human body is not much of a resistor. Rather, it is a fairly good conductor of electricity because the fluids in our bodies are solutions of salts and ions which readily enable electricity to flow."\n\nMore information and details can be found in the links below.
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EMP is a side-effect to nuclear explosions.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse\nHere is how you can build your own nuclear device.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_bomb\n\nGood luck. Just hope you are not living near me.
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Current burns, voltage jerks the muscles.  Too much current, you're toast.  Too much voltage, your heart stops.\n\nStatic built up from rubbing your socks on the carpet probably won't kill you.\n\nSeveral years back, in the wintertime, there were some news reports of people whose car blew up at the gas pumps.  Supposedly it was due to static electricity.\n\nIt's rare to get "shocked" outside when getting in or out of one's car or touching it or whatever but it does happen.  I remember a couple times in the past 5 years when it happened to me. A tiny percentage of times I have done that but way more than zero.\n\nSo, I guess the combination of a spark and being by your open gas tank could kills you, indirectly.\n\nTaking an extreme counter-example, there was a girl struck by lightening at the WHFS alternative rock festival in DC a few years ago. Apparently it knocked her a few feet from where she was standing.  But, it didn't kill her.  She was lucky.\n\nStatic charges build up more easily in wintertime. The air is dryer.  Something about the air molecules is different when there is less moisture.  I forget what, but you have probably noticed more "static" shocks in winter than any other time of year, unless you live in a really cold, dry place.\n\nA three inch spark seems pretty far.\n\nIn high school physics class, they said that each inch that a spark travelled off a sphere through the air indicated 10,000 volts.  I think it was 10,000.  Well, you're not a sphere and you are probably not touching one but that still seems like a lot.\n\nI used to get shocks of half or three quarters of an inch  when touching the corners of walls at the house I grew up in all the time.  That was really nothing.  I barely felt it.  It was just a surprise to feel it, and also to see the spark leap between the wall and your finger.\n\nModern buildings have grounding wires on all the outlets and stuff like that, to prevent electrical problems.  Not sure what really old buildings are like.\n\nIf you are wearing a sweater or wool clothing, that could increase the amount of static charge you build up.  There are all kinds of things that could do it.\n\nIf it happens on warm, humid days when you are not wearing any wool or sweaters, that would really be strange.  If not, maybe it is what you are wearing or the atmosphere that is mostly responsible.\n\nAlso, carpet is a big factor.\n\nFeeling it hours later, that's freaky. That never happened to me.
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Oscillation and Modulation of waves produces FM Radio waves. Here is a site which has some good and simple circuits. But remember Transmitting Radio Waves without a license is illegal in most countries..
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I read an article about this a while ago. While some radiation will be let through, it will not be devastating. The poles have switched a few times and it has not killed of mass numbers of humans, animals, or plants.
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The electromagnetic radiation from electrical devices COULD be used to induce a tiny current in a conductor, and used for some purpose. However, energy efficient devices experience very little leakage of radiation at these frequencies, or else they would violate FCC rules and interfere with a lot of other things. The biggest source of electromagnetic radiation from these devices is probably infrared radiation, or heat, which you could use to heat your home or for other purposes.
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You can create electricity using an ionizing chamber. The source has to be relatively strong to create a minimal ammount of electricity. One downfall of gamma radiation is that it can be reduced significantly by dense particles. it would be economically non feasible. It is currently being used to determine material density by measuring the voltage produced at the ionization chamber. The higher the voltage, the less density the material is. Usually in the 0-5 volts range depending on the source bequerel.
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The internal circuits of most stun-guns are fairly simple, either based on an oscillator, resonant circuit and step-up transformer or diode-capacitor voltage multipliers to achieve the continuous, direct or alternating high-voltage discharge may be powered by one or more 9 V battery depending on manufacturer, and model.  The recipient of the tazer shock (poor fellow) is actually imobilized as two metal probes touch the skin and send a high-voltage current through his or her body, causing great pain and temporary paralysis.
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No, but I touched an electric fence with a piece of metal, and I think I had an out of body experience.  It was crazy!
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its like when you shuffle your feet on the carpet and get a shock, except the carpet is the earth, the person is the sky, and the little shock is really big. also when you shuffle your feet, you usually only shock when you touch metal, this is like a lightning rod that prevents it from getting too bad. if there were no metal and you kept shuffling, you would sponanteously shock anything, and it would be much more powerful.\n\nthe other people explain the exact science, but this might be easier to explain to your friends
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Bang em on a table or other hard surface.  The shock may disrupt the magnetism.