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

[IotaYodi]

my thoughts are that this would include either a large mass of metal, in the ground, or several smaller connections

Check out J.W. Wilkins & Alexander Bains work. Stubblefield used large copper wires to the trees. Some say this was using magnetic currents and not forcing voltage.

[Pirate88179]

Our research in the EB topic on Stubblefield did not turn up any evidence of him using trees.  Where did you read this?  when he demonstrated his EB in Washington, DC he did it from a boat on the Potomac and actually made the first ship to shore telephone call.  It still worked in the river.  No trees there.

I am not arguing with you at all, I had just never read anything of this before your post.

Bill

[ResinRat2]

Hello Bill,

I read it too, it will take me a bit to find the site, that when they found Stubblefield right after his death that on his property there was thick electrical cables running into the roots of trees.

I am at work right now so it will be a while.

Dave (RR2)

[IotaYodi]

http://www.icehouse.net/john1/stubblefield.html

Later, Investigators entered his land area and found heavy wires leading from the roots of trees. To these wires were attached small arc lamps, hung in the trees.

[Pirate88179]

Dave:

Very cool.  I look forward to reading that.  Have you ever tried my tree experiment with your DMM?  I wish more folks would.  I want to see if it is just my trees that are negative and the ground here is positive.  Maybe it is like this all over the world?  OR, maybe there are + and - trees?

Please folks, just try sticking one probe into a tree and the other in the ground.  If you get a - reading, reverse the probes and tell us what it reads.  My one tree out front is about 1 volt DC -.

Thanks Dave.

Bill