Does the Earth Have a Net Electric Charge, and Can That Be Tapped?

[Doug1]

Parametric oscillator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_oscillator
Read all of it.

[Doug1]

A lot of people will tell others there is no useful amount of power or that it too hard to convert it. No one denies the power of a wimhurst generator which collects static. I see no vids of people sticking their tungs between the spark gap saying"see it's not worthy of anything".
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxA7xtU_XA
Any prime mover which requires input from a human to maintain motion will never be free but you can certainly learn how the equipment works that way then tie it to something a bit bigger which is free and constant. Conversion of that potential is not used much these days so you have to look back in hystory when it was in use.
We live on a magnetic capacitor in motion.

[ResinRat2]

...What about an old water well pipe that goes down about 200 feet of so?  That might be a cheap, fast, easy way to at least test your theory.

Bill

Hello Bill, an old water pipe won't work (at least I don't think so) because I

believe it would need to be insulated from the ground, except at the very

(deepest) tip. That way only the deepest part is tapped for a potential

difference.

[Pirate88179]

Hello Bill, an old water pipe won't work (at least I don't think so) because I

believe it would need to be insulated from the ground, except at the very

(deepest) tip. That way only the deepest part is tapped for a potential

difference.

I meant to drop your wire down the pipe.  You could have a coil of un-insulated wire at the bottom end of it and then, fill in the bottom of the pipe with some dirt...anyway, that is what I had pictured.  It would then be insulated all the way to the top and you could check for a potential difference.

Possibly another way to test might be to go to a very deep body of water and toss your weighted wire over the side.  You could easily get down about 500 feet or so.  I am not sure what the water might add or detract from the equation and I don't know how you could get it to stab into the bottom off the top of my head but...oh well....just brain storming.

Bill

[ResinRat2]

Hello Bill,

I live in a subdivision about 12 miles from Chicago. No water well pipes on my property; but maybe

someone else reading this can give that a try. Thanks for making that suggestion.

Dave (RR2)