Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Localjoe]

So i took a wack at something i thought was going to be wild but i deff had to satisfy my curiosity,   Go stick a small copper pipe or piece of sheet copper like 5 inches or so in the ground, then take a steel screw stick it in the ground about a foot away from the copper and tell me the voltage/ current you get. Copper being positive steel being negative.  I got 1.5 v ac or around .9 v dc and i cant tell the current but its in the hundreds of micro amps, charges ac cap real quick....  I Found out two ideas that will help people.   First stick your copper in the ground, make an imaginary circle in your head using the copper as the center and plop the steel skrew in around the perimeter of this circle walk the whole 360 degrees and try the skrew in the ground every so often.  My conclusion is polar alignment deff makes a difference and produces more voltage and current give how the metals are placed... Doing it near tree roots also had a significant impact on current being higher but no real impact on the voltage.  If the freq of this ac power was fast enough, i guess my question is could i step it up to something useful, mabey just enough to make a small solonid motor with flywheel or alternator of sorts to make additional power. Ideas folks ? I haven't tried putting coils on the metal directly to try Stubblefield stuff i wanted to start basic but the crazy part is these two peices of metal can be separated like at least 10 feet and they still form a circuit, or register voltage on my meter, pretty cool. I also found out that i could run a battery in series, plus of battery to - steel screw, copper pipe to load + and the - term on the battery to the loads - terminal, still lit the led which means its deff possible to use the ground as a conductor of sorts at least across a reasonable space of land.

Weird thing.. my analog shack meter shows the ac while my digital doesent but when i tap the probe on the copper or steel  it registers a little....

[Localjoe]

I forgot to mention this is working in a ceramic pot with a small basil plant in it as well, who woulda knew and its on the wood deck so about 4 feet off the ground level.  Not as much current compared to being in the actual ground

[Pirate88179]

@Localjoe:

I would think a lot would depend on the type of soil and mineralization of the ground where someone lives as to how well, or if, this might work.  A chemistry teacher of mine once showed us that your mouth is actually a battery under the correct conditions....ie chewing on a piece of aluminum foil.

I don't know if you know who Art Bell is....now retired famous host/creator of the Coast to Coast a.m. radio show...well, he is really big into ham radio and he reported that at his Nevada location, he strung up a "super" antenna in an array that was very large and supported off the ground on poles driven into the ground.  when he went to hook his equipment to it, it started blowing stuff left and right.  He checked the antenna line and had something like 210 volts on it.  He ended up putting some kind of filter on it but he said he was always curious as to where that power was from.  He lives way out in the high dessert and is not near any radio transmitters.

Anyway, this may be related to your phenomenon.  Also, could you not have several setups as you described and hook them in series to raise the voltage to a useful level?  Be pretty cool to recharge your cell phone from the earth, or light some LEDs.

Bill

[Freezer]

You can make a low power battery using tap water as well as the dirt. I made this a while ago to see if I could light a led.  The amps are no good though for powering larger stuff.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7892/wc1ki4.jpg
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This guy gets a good spark from falling water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY1eyLEo8_A

[Pirate88179]

@ Freezer:

The last link you posted from youtube is a great lecture series.  I enjoyed watching it and am going to look for the others.  Thanks.

Bill