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

[sm0ky2]

of course, if the voltage potential varries between locations in the actual ground itself, as indicated by certain earth battery experiments, that could further complicate this issue.

[friendenergy]

Don't know if this is right but I was thinking about what Pirate said about the ground reading positive and the tree reading negative. If the lead that is connection to the ground is reading positive and the lead touching the tree negative it might be the circuit path of the roots. The roots will go far lower than the ground you are poking at. Hence they will be more negative the farther down. It doesn't look this way because poking the tree above the ground and it might look higher than the ground but in fact you are really poking the lower roots that touch the soil then back up to the other lead; which is really supposed to be positive cause it is higher soil. I can assume you have to actually poke the tree and break it's skin. Which will probably be a moisture or water path that leads down to the roots likes veins until it contacts the soil. Anyway that's my two cents and I bet the more you poke the tree and put in series the higher your volts and parallel the higher the amps. Until you suck the life out of that poor tree, or poison it with the electrodes...    

[IotaYodi]

I can assume you have to actually poke the tree and break it's skin

I didn't on my grapefruit tree.

Ive been pondering this and it seems to me its just the direction of current flow. Unlike poles attract. Current flow is always from the south magnetic pole to the north magnetic pole. South is input or - and north is output or +. If the North geographic/south magnetic pole is inputting electrons or neg ions to the tree, then the output from the tree has to travel to the north magnetic pole + or output through the meters positive probe. Which it does.
You have basically 2 objects in this loop. The tree and the Earth.

With just a copper pipe and neg meter probe in ground it follows the same pattern.  South magnetic in and North magnetic out. The positive probe is measuring the north magnetic outflow of current. If the leads are reversed then there is no unlike pole attraction but like pole repulsion which gives a negative reading. With or without a metal or other cathode materiel, the outflow of current from the copper or north magnetic pole just flows back to ground through it. This would seem to make the Earth both positive and negative depending on where the current flow is coming from.The copper would be positive to ground and the tree negative to ground.

If any of that holds true then trees wired in series would be both above and below ground. In parallel it would be a wire from root to root or plain earth and which one would be better, and a wire above ground from tree to tree. Which raises questions on how to attach the wires. Should a negative materiel be used above ground and copper below ground? What kind of insulation if any?

[Pirate88179]

Hello Bill,

I tried your experiment today, I stabbed one probe into the tree root and the other as far away as I could into the ground. The ground read as positive and the meter read approx. 56 mv.

Dave(RR2)

Dave:

Thanks.  So I am not crazy and the "ground" is +.  A few posts above a fellow suggested that it might be because we are higher than the roots in the ground which is not a bad theory.  The actual roots may be - but I would not know how to test for this in my situation.  (I rent over here)

@ All:

This is very easy to test without harming the tree in any way.  Now, if we start sucking real power out of them, I have no idea of what those effects may or may not be over time.  This may be be yet another way to tap into solar energy.

Bill

[ResinRat2]

This may blow your mind:

http://journal.borderlands.com/2000/plants-and-radionic-currents/

How does it all tie together? Can you wire the trees in parallel and in series. Is this why those large wires were in the roots of trees on Stubblefield's property?