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- Dec 28, 2018
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Yes... nice link, another slightly vague description, but still interesting - it fits the overall impression.
Coals do work... as does wood, from which charcoal is made, or anthracite coal because it's basically compressed charcoal... Then there are the burning stuffs that have a lower content in C, like gas or gasoline...
A gasoline generator is basically easier to use, but as I said it smells terrible and raises a hellish noise...
As to the strange medical info about CO damage, the difference between what is generally known as typical brain damage out of other reasons like stroke or a badly aimed head shot (I had a relative who had a head injury from a car accident, a blunt trauma to the upper right skull which left the outer cerebral part of the brain asphyxiated for more than half an hour but NOT the inner parts > intensive care and all that - he spent 8 years in a coma before he died - they tried all sorts of things... no effect. He was "locked in," fully paralyzed, blind, unable to speak or move... there was a conscious rest of him trying to communicate but it couldn't be done... everything was used, logopedics and stuff, but the poor remnants of consciousness slowly died off in hopeless, utter loneliness, it was a very tragic and horrible thing, about the worst torture you could possibly imagine and I can't actually write about it without crying again, though this was 15 years ago now and I have learned never to think about it... so I'll stop here.
I just mean to say, I do know a few things about brain function and brain damage).
So, brain damage from CO will NOT cause such an effect, because CO kills all brain cells equally rather than a few on the cerebral cortex, which would be turning you into a vegetable, while the brain stem, thalamus/hippocampus etc. and cerebellum, stay functional - it damages them all equally and smoothly. A locked-in syndrome where consciousness remains but cannot act is extremely unlikely. If the neurons (as well as other body cells) don't actually DIE, but stay low-level active, alive, until air or oxygen is applied, the patients will likely have a good chance to more or less fully recover, though they will struggle with lots of what I would call reco-ordination symptoms. Or they all die entirely, which us morituri here would call success - banzai and all that ;)
Perhaps you could provide something more than anecdotal evidence for this claim? I'm very sorry for what you went through but it also seems like you're implying that we shouldn't worry about brain damage because it won't be "the bad kind" even if it happens.
As has been stated many times before. I really think this information should go in the OP as top tips and most common reasons for failure for people considering this methods.The #fails reported here are all caused by under-dosage (not enough CO) or by air drift, as in tents or cars or leaky rooms. Make sure you have enough coals (abt .5 kgs or 1 lb per cubic meter minimum) and that the produced CO will remain undisturbed, as will you, for six hours.