Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Pirate88179]

George:

Thanks for the update.  Still, he is selling power back to the power company and that should interest some people here on this site. Not an earth battery but....still very useful info.

Bill.

[jeanna]

Hi
I'm in on this too.
It was too stormy here all day and when it cleared I put a piece of rebar and a 10 " by 2 " copper plate into the surface of the ground (no deeper than 1"). they were sort of N-S  and I got a steady .16V sometimes and a cycling from .18V to 0 . Then I connected between the copper plate and the the shovel I had propped up next to the rebar and got a very steady .18V. I guess the shovel has a lot more surface area than the rebar. This is too low. but I am encouraged to keep going. The day was ending and I could barely read my multimeter.
I have been looking at this for a few years but never tried it.

I have a couple of comments from my previous research.

This is a kind of throw-away because I can't find the source, but I distinctly remember being told that Tesla chose 60 Hz for the AC because that was what he thought the tuning of the earth to atmosphere was. I am putting this out in case anyone else has heard this and can verify it for me.

Several years ago I copied an article onto my computer that has a picture of Stubbenfield's earth batteries. Then the researcher made a point to say that there was a rock layer between the electrodes. I think this may be important in the design. It is actually the reason I never tried this. I was renting.

The telephone company still uses this earth battery. Stubbenfield used it when he was inventing his telephones and this earth battery is evidently one element that makes the land lined telephones work. Have you ever seen the sign on a piece of metal around your house that says "do not remove or disturb" and it is signed the telephone company? That is the connection to the ground. They call it " the ground" and you think it is like the ground of an electrical company circuit. But it is not. When the power goes out (as it did here today) I can plug in my old rotary phone and "dial" a number. If the person I am dialing also has a rotary phone, it will ring and we can talk. This is because those old type phones work without any electric company electricity. It is from this ground wire. !!!   So, let's carry on.

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

jeanna:

Welcome to this topic.  I hope that more people attempt to experiment in this area and we can compare the results.  As far as Tesla goes...I have read several books on him and all of them say he was obsessed by 3's.  He lived his life in ways that were either three, or multiples thereof.  60hz is a multiple of three but I don't know if that was an accident or not.

Considering the galvanic differences in your metals you should/could have produced .40 volts.  Also, when you align to north/south, it is not magnetic north like you read on your compass.  It should, from what I have read anyway, be aligned to the north pole of the earth which can be quite different from magnetic north depending on your position on the planet.  Please continue with your experiments and keep us posted. Localjoe is going to input the results to a spreadsheet so maybe we can get a better handle on what works, and what works better.

As for history, have you read where the telegraph folks continued to pass messages long after their (Edison) batteries were dead?  This was also attributed to the natural potentials of the earth battery. As far as your old rotary phone working is concerned, and anyone correct me if I am wrong on this, the phone company sends it's own low voltage through the line which can ring the bell, or buzzer, and may, or may not be effected by a local power outage.  the reason modern phones don't work is because usually they are cordless and the base needs power for the transmit/receive functions.  Please keep up your work.

Bill

[jeanna]

jeanna:

Welcome to this topic.  I hope that more people attempt to experiment in this area and we can compare the results.  As far as Tesla goes...I have read several books on him and all of them say he was obsessed by 3's.  He lived his life in ways that were either three, or multiples thereof.  60hz is a multiple of three but I don't know if that was an accident or not.

Considering the galvanic differences in your metals you should/could have produced .40 volts.  Also, when you align to north/south, it is not magnetic north like you read on your compass.  It should, from what I have read anyway, be aligned to the north pole of the earth which can be quite different from magnetic north depending on your position on the planet. 
Yeah it was pretty sloppy. I was pushing the dusk and I wanted something. I went into the shed that has an earth floor. I couldn't dig deep enough to get the metals in more than an inch. I will give it more time
As for history, have you read where the telegraph folks continued to pass messages long after their (Edison) batteries were dead?  This was also attributed to the natural potentials of the earth battery.
Pretty cool.
As far as your old rotary phone working is concerned, and anyone correct me if I am wrong on this, the phone company sends it's own low voltage through the line which can ring the bell, or buzzer,
yup and it has to return by the ground not the wire or it won't work.

I may have inserted my remarks wrong. I am new to this forum stuff. (but I love it anyway)

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

Your remarks were fine.  I'm glad your here.

Bill