Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Localjoe]

Ah ha i found the answer to the cap and the tree, check this out Bill and Hans this seems to be more on point for our initial findings here

                   
Source: KeelyNet / Jerry Decker email (12/21/05)

"Unlimited Electric Energy from the Environment?"






An alternative electric power generating system that draws energy from a seemingly unlikely yet abundant, eminently renewable and virtually free power source has been submitted for patenting by MagCap Engineering, LLC, Canton, Mass., in collaboration with Gordon W. Wadle, an inventor from Thomson, Ill. Wadle has invented a way to capture the energy generated by a living non- animal organism --- such as a tree.

Chris Lagadinos, president of MagCap, developed circuitry that converts this natural energy source into useable DC power capable of sustaining a continuous current to charge and maintain a battery at full charge.

"As unbelievable as it sounds, we've been able to demonstrate the feasibility of generating electricity in this manner," said Wadle.

"While the development is in its infancy, it has the potential to provide an unlimited supply of constant, clean energy without relying on fossil fuels, a power generating plant complex or an elaborate transmission network."

Wadle likened the invention to the discovery of electricity over 200 years ago when charged particles were harnessed to create an electric current. "Now we've learned that there is an immense, inexhaustible source of energy literally all around us that can be harnessed and converted into usable electric power," he said. Ultimately, it should prove to be more practical than solar energy or wind power, and certainly more affordable than fuel cells, he added.

Wadle said he got the original idea of harnessing a tree for electrical energy from studying lightening, more than 50 percent of which originates from the ground. This prompted him to develop the theories resulting in a method to access this power source.

Lagadinos then designed circuitry that filtered and amplified these energy emanations, creating a useable power source.

Basically, the existing system includes a metal rod embedded in the tree, a grounding rod driven into the ground, and the connecting circuitry, which filters and boosts the power output sufficient to charge a battery.

In its current experimental configuration, the demonstration system produces 2.1 volts, enough to continuously maintain a full charge in a nickel cadmium battery attached to an LED light. "Think of the environment as a battery, in this case," said Lagadinos, "with the tree as the positive pole and the grounding rod as the negative."

Lagadinos said the system could be enhanced enough to generate 12 volts and one amp of power, "a desirable power level that could be used to power just about anything," he said. It is enough power to charge batteries for any type of vehicle, including hybrids and electric cars, or to use with an AC converter to produce household power, he added. The LED industry is a prime example of a potential user of this power source.

While the basic concept of this invention -- using a tree to generate electric power -- seems too incredible to be true, Lagadinos said it can be demonstrated quite simply. "Simply drive an aluminum roofing nail through the bark and into the wood of a tree -- any tree -- approximately one half inch; drive a copper water pipe six or seven inches into the ground, then get a standard off-the-shelf digital volt meter and attach one probe to the pipe, the other to the nail and you'll get a reading of anywhere from 0.8 to 1.2 volts of DC power," he said.

"You can't do anything with it in that form because it is 'dirty' -- i.e. highly unstable and too weak to power anything," he added. In order to properly harness this potential energy source, MagCap devised two test circuits: one with three capacitors that were connected in parallel by means of a switch and charged to 0.7 volts each.

When fully charged they are switched to a series mode, multiplying the voltage to 2.1 volts and flashing an LED to show that sufficient power could be generated to produce a useable result. The second circuit included a filtering device to stabilize and "clean" the current so it could be used to charge and maintain a NiCad battery.

The battery then could be connected to the LED to keep the LED lit continuously. Wadle pointed out that there seems to be no limit to the amount of power that can be drawn from an individual tree, no matter how many "taps" are inserted -- each produces the same amount of energy, an average of 0.7 - 0.8 volts. Size of the tree also seems not to matter.

Interestingly, while conventional wisdom would seem to indicate that the tree draws much of its energy from photosynthesis via its leaves, the voltage output actually increases to 1.2-1.3 volts in the winter after the leaves have fallen.

[Pirate88179]

@ Localjoe:

Excellent find man!  I see what they did with the caps, they got.7 volts and used three caps in series to achieve 2.1 vdc.  Heck, we are getting more than that out of the initial tests. (more than their .7 vdc)  So, I can hook up three caps to my 1.6 and get 4.8 vdc?  My gut opinion/guess is that they are also tapping into the telluric currents by using the trees.  I think they are incorrect about the power coming from the trees, I think it is coming from the earth through the trees.  But, who knows?  I have only one tree here that I can test but since I rent, I don't own it.  Oh well, no one will notice a small hole here or there.  This is an interesting twist of events. Thanks.

@Hans:

Great pictures.  His batteries are smaller than I envisioned them.  I sure wish we could get our hands on one for examination.

[hansvonlieven]

There is perhaps more to this than meets the eye, some of it not so good.

This is an excerpt from an article about Stubblefield written by one of his grandchildren:

?  Grandpa was now once again blamed by his wife of 36 years for accidently poisoning three of their nine children through inadvertencies. Neither, at the time of their experimenting with various mixtures of Pitchblende and salt crystals within their 85 farmland soil, knew it was contaminating Teleph-on-delgreen. From 1881 to 1906, the soil-coil RF antenna "hotspots" -- that made it possible for Grandpa Nathan Stubblefield to develop and patent the 1898 induction earth batteries and 1908 Wireless Telephone? -- did contaminate their foodstuffs and water.
? ? It wasn't until 1906 when their son Tesla died teething on a potato from one of the RF antenna "hotspots," -- that they realized that it could have been the RF antenna "hotspots," mixtures of Pitchblende, salt crystals and other active metals that created the healthy looking but tainted vegetable gardens. The watermelons, tobacco and other vegetation they had commenced growing and selling since their courtship in 1880, when he was 20 and Ada Mae, 16 years of age became an invitation for both invention and the destruction of a family.
? ? They couldn't shake the sense of dread, so Ada Mae on their 36th anniversary, 1917, left Grandpa Nat stranded. He moved his gear to a one room hut and became a stranger than fiction recluse. On summer nights, he would shock his neighbors by lighting up hill sides from his hut, with his buried RF induction transmitting coils.

One wonders what he did to the ground, the batteries as patented could not do this.

Hans von Lieven

[akashh]

The concept of getting higher voltages by charging capacitors got me thinking.  After quite a bit of googling, it seems we want something like this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/cw1.htm
That's a Cockroft Walton Voltage Multiplier, which uses standard capas and diodes to boost the output.   We'd have to see what the diode does since voltages are so low to start with.  I was thinking that the output of this could be connected to a battery through a transistor & op-amp with hysteresis.   If for example we get 1 V that charges up out voltage octoplier, we'd eventually get 8V at the output.  We could then switch on our transistor and pipe this energy into a 4.5V or 6V battery.  When voltage reaches say 6V, the op-amp switches the transistor off and the charging starts again. 
I'm not an electronics pro but may be able to put this together if it's interesting to all.

[Localjoe]

Yes deffiantly i was going to tell all that im going to try a small voltge x ing circuit before a stubblefield coil ... and we'd love to see your idea.  Ive got a few old computer psu's with plenty of parts i can unsolder ,i think it has a bunch of the 35 v cap's fat ones tho should be a nice test when we arc a screwdriver across the cap terminals.    
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