Ibpointless2 Crystal Cells

[triffid]

Nickz thank you for that video.In the past I removed carbon rods from size d batteries to use as cheap electrodes for electrochemistry experiments.It was not carbon in those batteries but magnesium dioxide(which is as black as your carbon).I used  dish liquid soap and water to clean the carbon rods and let them dry overnight before use.I do think there is an electrolyte in your carbon that you used.I wonder what results you would have with aquarium carbon?Does quartz conduct electricity?I think what they call charcloth(carbon) might make a good electrode?They use charcloth to start fires without matches so its on u-tube on how to make it.I have snow and ice right now where I am living and do not like to venture out just yet.I am looking forward to finding some Morton Salt sub.I wonder if magnetic and/or electric fields could line up the casimir plates?triffid

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I like the fact that we can now work on crystal batteries since John Hutchinson open sourced his technology.Yes so far I've failed to get anything over.14 volts to last.Now I'm worried that that fail me.Once we figure out a way to get a good working crystal cell we can make it smaller.Whenever you hold a cell phone in your hands you are holding what would have been an empire state building full of wires and electron tubes back in the early 1950's.With the intergrated circuit that Jack Kilby invented back in 1959 I believe.All of that starting getting smaller.and smaller,and smaller still.triffid

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What I worry about is that someone will try to buy out someone and end up putting this on the shelf.Maybe the cat is out of the bag enough so that will not happen again?triffid

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This guy shows how to hollow out a cigarette lighter for another project but someone could use the knowledge to put crystal cells into a  lighter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Erek6aS5Ws&feature=fvwp&NR=1   triffid

[NickZ]

   Triffed:
   I have also used the carbon rods that are found in some of the AA size batteries. They work very well.
John B had also mentioned that the carbon rods can be washed, and put in the oven or on a electric stove to burn off any toxic stuff that may still be on them. That is what I do.
   The carbon in carbon/zinc batteries is not what I use now, or the whatever is found in the other batteries, as it can give you chemical burns, and who knows what else, even though I've made cells that can light an led on just a single cell, from old dead batteries. But now I just use plain beach wood carbon as the beach is next to my house, and is where I get some of my cell making materials.
I get calcium carbonate from sea shells, carbon from fires on the beach, and I also  use washed beach sand for my cement/sand cells made from beer cans, or capacitor cans, and also quartz.  My cells cost me nothing...