As discussed in some other entries on On being mobbed, I almost always shut down the main breaker overnight. Mobbing criminals use access to active circuits to monkeywrench victim infrastructure. Denying these criminals this access helps to ameliorate the mobbing harassment and increases my chances of getting some sleep.
Over time, I’ve purchased a few power banks; these I use to power some air purifiers and, hopefully, to keep me safe even as my mobbing neighbors use WiFi extenders or antennas and grounds from their own properties to direct and inject the product of some kind of generator into my environment.
The air purifiers help to discourage the buildup of the “mobbing substrate,” as I’ve called it; this is probably dirty electricity or some kind of generator debris. I haven’t the expertise to confirm it but, based on experience, suspect that household electrical services that include knob-and-tube wiring or are otherwise insufficiently grounded, as well as features like low-voltage transformers and high-efficiency lighting that makes two-pin electrodes available, are easily monkeywrenched in this manner.
This strategy of using power banks has been the best choice for me but does not stop crooks who must evict to indemnify themselves and their “clients.” Power stores and air purifiers have their own vulnerabilities. In mobbing, anything with a baffled fan can amplify a pressure wave (a sound wave). I’ve learned that air purifiers must be on low and that, if I don’t want to hear mobbing babble and abuse on the fanned device, it’s best not to have it too close by. I have increasingly avoided air purifiers that can be remotely controlled; mobbing criminals sabotage devices by boosting and signal diversion, so far as I can see. This means that any radioed device is vulnerable. Some manufacturers use the lack of remote control as a selling point.
For the same reason, I use power banks that do not require fans for cooling and try to keep the power banks a distance away so that if mobbing criminals can monkeywrench the power banks by transmitting at the same frequency, I am less likely to hear it.
But any power bank needs recharging. Mobbing criminals leverage technology in the abuse of their victims. Power banks like the ones I use are most easily charged over AC power. This requires a charger. The larger the supply of the power bank, the longer it takes to charge and the more likely it is to use a fanned AC charger in a “noisy” process. This is what you’d expect. I’ve found, however, that if the charger is not disconnected as soon as the power store is charged, the mobbing babble increases in volume in the location where the unit is being charged and the air quality quickly degrades. Like tonight, for example, when I saw that the Tesla next door had moved into position to charge while my power stores were being renewed.
I don’t know if the ill effects that emerge when the power bank is not immediately unplugged after charging are the result of monkeywrenching or whether this effect is exacerbated when the victim house has some knob-and-tube wiring or is otherwise insufficiently grounded. But if you’re in a situation like mine, you should be attentive to the recharging process. You might want to consider monitoring the recharging of your power banks and disconnecting them promptly when they are fully charged.
This condition is likely another indicator that the mobbers—criminals willing to use dangerous methods to turn over properties—are creating, intensifying and using electromagnetic fields sourced from WiFi, generators, inverters and charging processes to monkeywrench neighboring infrastructure and environments. This is a condition that should not be permitted. (It occurred to me sometime back that those CrossFit “power lifters” who harass over an open-mic smartphone from a backyard-deployed motion-detecting and triggering 802.11ac WiFi extender get off on the impact of their feats of exertion over neighboring dwellings and their inhabitants.)
In the case of Powerwall appliances, EV chargers, and other kinds of generators, containment should be built into the installation. The products of these appliances should not exceed the bounds of the property within which they are installed. Home owners shouldn’t have to shield their electrical system from the neighbor’s Powerwall; shielding should be applied, for example, to the walls of the structure that houses the Powerwall in a manner that prevents egress of the matter into the environment and certainly over the property line. This should be true even in cases like mine where neighbors on multiple sides conspire to use directional antennas, grounds, generators, and magnetic forces to draw harmful debris from a property on one side to a property on the other, into and throughout your home. Moreover, bad actors should not be easily able to hack their devices to create behavior that can be used to coerce and harm those within range. An appliance that can be used to harm the neighbors is not secure. The FCC rules on device shielding are obsolete and inadequate for solar, charging, and induction technologies, and for the IoT ecosystem.
There are many, many homes in which some knob-and-tube wiring remains. Millions of households shelter people who depend on medical devices. Many homes are remodeled by general contractors who neglect to include foundational upgrades to the electrical system in their bids. In the San Francisco Bay Area, an initiative has begun to move millions of households from gas to electric appliances. The migration will spur the adoption of heat pump technologies for the furnace and the clothes dryer, and induction for the kitchen range. Many of these appliances are being introduced into the burgeoning IoT ecosystem with WiFi and marketed as “smart.”
Across the United States, people like all of us live and breathe, dwelling in spaces that are built and maintained for human health with the assumption of good faith on the part of our neighbors. Cities can create codes that reduce the harm that is possible in the face of corruption or when city employees and appointees like block captains and coordinators go rogue. Cities should create codes that guard against the sabotage of infrastructure and acts that must be considered domestic terrorism. Cities must create codes that curb the influence of real estate speculators in shaping local laws and, indeed, our civic lives. When the City of Albany, California and, indeed, any city, looks the other way and waits to collect property transfer taxes as the vulnerable are systematically battered, assaulted and perhaps even murdered out of their homes, it’s a sign that something must change.
