Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Chad]

Well, I have exhausted all of my local sources for graphite or carbon rods so now, I am awaiting quotes from internet companies.  This is frustrating!

@Stefan:

I guess one could make a graphite rod but, when you use glue, or any other binder, you will decrease the electrical properties proportionally.  the best graphite rods are iso-pressed, isostatically pressed at thousand of psi.  My old company, which I lost in my divorce, had a supply room of thousands of ceramic and graphite materials, sorted by size and material compostion.  I tested one of my graphite/carbon composite golf shafts and it has a continuity reading of zero, if you scrape off the gloss finish and paint.  I am also searching for magnesium rods, or will settle for zinc if I have to.

I want to get on with this!!!!!!

Bill

Bill have you tied these guys, they seem to have lotts of usefull graphite rods and blocks ......includes prices aswell.

http://www.graphitestore.com/items_list.asp/action/prod/prd_id/70/cat_id/22

chad.

[hartiberlin]

I spoke yeasterday with an engineer friend, who has some
experience with house-electricity connections, rules and reglementations, etc...

He told me, that the earth is very conductive !
About under 10 Ohms for 1 km length.

So he also said, that due to this ,ground currents can easily
flow inside the earth.

Also there are always leaking currents from bad isolation
household devices, which flow via the grounding of the houses back to the transformer
stations inside the earth. Along this path there will be voltage potentials to be able to be tapped.

Also electric train rails and high voltage powerline masts have huge earth currents nearby.

So this guy, who got 1.8 amps must be probably living near a heavy usage
electricity location, where many leakage currents go through the earth.

As the earth together with the rods you want to stick in it
can be seen as a big potentiometer, it depens where you tap
the resistance to get a voltage and thus a current.

So in general, if you just use 2 copper rods,so you have no galvanic action
and just tap ground currents, the voltage will be bigger, if the 2 copper
rods are farther away from each other, cause then you have more earth resistance
between it and thus the voltage will be higher.
But then you need of course a current inside the earth, that also flows
exactly into the direction of the 2 rods.

So all in all, if you want not just the galvanic
action, that consumes the metals,but  to research and  extract real ground currents,
you need to go to a place,where there are no power lines or transformers
nearby, so you can really test the pure earth currents from natural sources....

But I guess, then these would be pretty small and thus the output power
would be also pretty low...

[hartiberlin]

I spoke again today with my friend and he told me, that
steel inside cement is acting like a copper material in
the dissimular metal chart !

That is very astounding to me.
So you can replace expensive copper by just normal
steel  and put the steel into cement "wrapping".

This is probably also one electrode in Steve Ryan?s
www.biosfuel.org
urine battery.
The other electrode was said to be Titanmesh metal.

Regards, Stefan.

[hartiberlin]

I just tried with 2 iron nails being about 30cm long and putting them about 25 cm into the
earth about 1 meter away in front of my house,where I live
and there was no voltage on them.
The soil was still pretty wet from showers the last days..

I also used then one iron nail and a copper pipe and I just had about
0.15 Volts on them, but this is just from the galvanic action.

Normally you need to put these rods at least 1.5 to 2 Meters deep into the
earth,otherwise you will not see any effect at all.

So my rods were probably not deep enough and there were no ground currents
on the surface.
I sticked them into north-south direction also...

Regards, Stefan.

[Localjoe]

I'm In the Adirondack park, Upstate NY, I think that classifies as out there...  So if i have a chance this weekend i have a mountain like 5 mins from my house that i can try this at.  However much difference this will make from my house in the city which is still a small town i don't know, but it would show how much leakage penetrates the city.