Earth Energy Batteries

[the_big_m_in_ok]

"When I put plates of copper/soft iron in the earth(I don't use zinc-too reactive with the soil)."

>>I bought plans from a particular mail order outfit that dealt with free energy years ago in the States.

What I did in a large vacant lot was:  Start with the push-in-the-ground wire-and-paper advertising sign supports made of annealed (soft) steel wire.  (Cheap and very common in America.) Then I found commercial aluminum pallet binding wire having an American wire gauge of around #2 gauge.

The important thing was that the metals be different on the Periodic Chart of natural elements.  That the steel was sometimes rusty was no problem.

The wires were pushed into dry ground, alternating Al (aluminum) and Fe (iron) more than 15 feet (about 4.75m?) apart.  Copper wire connect all the Fe wires in series to each other.  Al wires were connecter the same way, but not connected in series or parallel to the Fe wires.  This made each a distinct circuit.  A copper piece of pipe was hammered into the ground for an electrical Earth Ground.

Whether either the Fe or Al end of the wire or the other Al wire (I don't remember if the iron or aluminum was positive---this was 20 yrs. ago) was connected to the copper ground it registered 1 volt at once on an analog Radio Shack voltmeter.  After 2 hrs. time, the reading was 2 volts, whereas the whole circuit should have been grounded.

Thomas Edison was an early pioneer in DC earth battery work with possibly several Patents to his credit.  There were also other researchers.  U.S. patent 329,724 "Electric Earth Battery" describes one such device.

http://www.pat2pdf.org   and   http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search   ...

will allow you to download the patents.

--Lee
the_big_m_in_ok

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Thomas Edison was an early pioneer in DC earth battery work with possibly several Patents to his credit.  There were also other researchers.  U.S. patent 329,724 "Electric Earth Battery" describes one such device.


Furthermore,

http://www.google.com/patents?id=JbRkAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&zoom=4&dq=patent:155209&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

...describes U.S. Patent #155,209, which uses buried alternating zinc and copper rods connected electrically by wire in series to operate typical electrical devices in use at the time the patent was issued.




NOTE:

http://overunity.com/index.php?topic=6919.0

...has the description of several natural saltwater-and-different-metal types of batteries that work the same as what I give above.  Both my battery and these saltwater ones will need to have their metallic electrodes periodically.  They don't last forever, so low cost materials are definitely the way to go.

--Lee
the_big_m_in_ok

[Pirate88179]

Here is a video of me lighting an 18", 15 watt tube from my earth battery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fV-xjRy3I4

Check out my other earth battery videos there.  I have lit 100 leds from this same set-up.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

My earth battery lighting 200 leds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzdHRovnbo

Bill

[IotaYodi]

Great stuff Pirate!
Im curious as to how much you paid for that 5 pound block of magnesium. The metal itself is not cheap.