"Harness The Earth's Energy While You Sleep" (plug your bed into Mains wiring)? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: peteb2
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 09:01:21 pm
content: What a right ripper! This is the latest in WOO-WOO. For a bit over 100 quid you get a cotton bed sheet full of fine wires and a mains lead with molded 3 pin plug that connects to the Mains Earth !!!! Their blerb reads: "Many are unaware that the Earth’s surface is covered by a blanket of electrons, which may act as one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. Every time we come into contact with the Earth’s surface, we are able to absorb these electrons through our skin through a process called grounding, or Earthing. Grounding during sleep provides the body with multiple hours of these free electrons, at a time where the body undergoes the most healing and regeneration"... There's even a couple of Woo-Woo as hell videos....andThe latter features a dodgy DMM! I'm impressed with the posh webpage though...https://rowlandearthing.co.uk/

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 10:30:51 pm
content: I think saying "plug your bed into mains wiring" is making it sound much more dangerous than it is. Whether or not it provides any benefit I don't know, probably not.There are a handful of small studies, but most of them are questionable:https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2004.10.767https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/06.PR0.116k21w5

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2022, 03:55:08 am
content: Quote from: peteb2 on January 12, 2022, 09:01:21 pmAt a capacitance for the whole earth of 711uF that's a lot of people sharing one terminal of a small capacitor to "absorb" electrons from. And if they do, will they reverse the polarity of the charge on the Earth? If that happens, will that make contact with the ground dangerous rather than beneficial? More worrying, there's Tantalum in the ground, and we all know how big a bang you get if you wire a Tantalum capacitor up in reverse bias!

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2022, 05:50:22 pm
content: Connecting your sheets to a mains plug, what could go wrong?

author: benbradley
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2022, 05:57:47 am
content: This idea of being electrically grounded while you sleep has been around, I first heard of it years ago. Here's a "scientific" article on an experiment - it MUST be true because the study was "triple-blinded" !!!11!https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.00035/full

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2022, 10:56:07 am
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 13, 2022, 05:50:22 pmWhat indeed?https://www.electricblanketfires.com/electric-blanket-fire-stats/

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2022, 11:54:02 am
content: I wonder if it works better if your mattress has coil springs rather than memory foam. Maybe you could hook into some Schumann resonance.

author: TERRA Operative
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2022, 01:05:40 pm
content: Don't wet the bed!

author: YurkshireLad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2022, 02:11:47 pm
content: Quote from: TERRA Operative on January 16, 2022, 01:05:40 pmOr sweat!

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 20, 2022, 01:58:31 am
content: Quote from: YurkshireLad on January 16, 2022, 02:11:47 pmOr get busy under there and get the sheets wet.

author: 5U4GB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 01, 2025, 02:54:26 am
content: Quote from: Cyberdragon on January 20, 2022, 01:58:31 amThis is presumably why the Bible warns against spilling your seed on the ground...

author: paul cotter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2025, 08:54:54 am
content: Indeed, the tale of Onan.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2025, 12:33:26 am
content: Some may just be buying that bed for the possibility of winning the Darwin award...