Energy from the Ground - Self powered generator by Barbosa and Leal

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this is the greyscale which is a little easier, but really gives very little new.

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Can someone upload Nenad Savic's videos to another place, please.


Cheers,
Adrian

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This is the latest news I received from my contact in Brazil about the Captor progress ..  9th May 2014
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They are negotiating a deal with investors outside Brazil. Yesterday i had a long talk with the Brazilian middleman of this, but he is under a NDA... Anyway those investors have intentions to open the technology very close of a Open Source style.
Much will happen until the end of this year... And next year it is absolutely certain that we will have here at the www.fisl.org.br a Captor powering a portion of the event.
Tomorrow we will have the lecture of Sterling Allan, you can find the schedule at

http://papers.softwarelivre.org/papers_ng/public/new_grid?day=7

Today will happen a lecture about Barbosa technology but it will be in Portuguese.

Out live streaming are at

http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15/ao-vivo

Best
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbNvUZT4NC4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbNvUZT4NC4

That's a good video showing exactly whats going on, note he mentions he had to bypass the RCD (safety switch) because it kept tripping open.

At the end we clearly see the grid is supplying 2.4 amps from the active (phase) wire and that current is caused to pass through
the ground back to where the neutral is connected to the ground stake near the fuse/meter box, thus bypassing the measuring
arrangement in the meter and fooling it. Weather or not the meter on the house is being fooled is neither here nor there, if t is
fooling the house meter the power is being stolen, if it isn't fooling the house meter then the power is being paid for.

Seeing the around 80 volt drop on the load when the current is forced through the ground makes sense and someone with the
ability could determine the ground resistance that way maybe.

Maybe someone with knowledge of exactly how a meter box is wired could make a drawing to show the current loop in the
"captor" mode and in the usual mode of power use.

Bypassing the RCD could be very dangerous, that is why they exist, many people died so a safety fix was needed. Here they are mandatory.

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