Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Pirate88179]

@Chad:

Great results so far, keep it up! 

@Freezer:

Keep up your efforts also.  I went to 4 places today to try to buy a graphite welding rod but no one had any.  I have a golf club shaft that is some form of graphite, I might try to utilize that.

@Localjoe:

Man, you started a great topic here.  I hope it continues to take off and we can publish some great results!!!  I am again tomorrow seeking materials.

Bill

[gaby de wilde]

I'm sure I've seen more then 5 websites about this ground battery stuff. I didn't pay much attention until I see the plans on ebay. (don't have a link for that either )  I don't remember it 100% but there was one plan who dug a hole covered it with plastic, then made lasagna using layers of earth and big plates of copper and zinc. Go deep, make it cover a large area. I think they just put them in series and parallel.

If your rods have 1 A and 1 V then you need 1000 times as much surface for 1 kw
If it's only 10 mA * 1V you would need 10 000 times as much surface to make 100V * 10A

The surface of 1x1m plates is quite a bit bigger as that of a single rod. I wasn't really that interested as I thought it was probably some evil chemical reaction I wouldn't want to have in my garden. But if one can isolate the earth that changes everything.

Hummm didn't Don Adsitt have plans on his site?

leme search...

http://www.theverylastpageoftheinternet.com/forsale/plans/earthbattery/ebpage1.htm

(note to self: Adsitt with 2 times the t)

[Pirate88179]

@ Gaby:

Thanks very much for the link.  This never came up in any of my internet searches.  I have not read all of it yet, but I will.  This goes with Stefan's premise that the more surface area you have, the more amps you can produce.  It is consistant with the patents we have read.  Thanks again.

PS  Have you tried any of this yet?  If so, what were your findings?

BIll

[hartiberlin]

BTW, you can make your own conductive graphite powder from burning coal pellets.
Have a search in the battery section.

My girlfriend gave me the tip to try this..
Then you could also use this conductive graphite powder to make graphite "paper" which has a huge surface and so you could make your own huge surface graphite paper plates.
Surely you need then to make sure the soil is not too wet, so the paper does not dissolve...I am at my PDA at the moment, so I am posting the links later...
But they are all here in the "battery" section.

[hartiberlin]

P.S. Is there any chemical glue , that is not water dissolveable and will still conduct okay, when graphite powder is mixed into it ?
This would be needed to get longer lasting conductive graphite paper plates. Maybe graphite could be mixed with some 2 component glue and this will still be enough conductive ?