Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[Cap-Z-ro]

While messing with my planted cap, the voltage was lost, and slowly climbed to .05 vdc.

I placed my meter probe on the positive cap terminal and hand pulsed the negative probe in the dirt and very quickly got reached a .28 vdc reading...hmmm.

Hope that info will help someone's set up.

Regards...

[jeanna]

Here are my first EB (2 cells) connected to a joule thief. I just add the black cap to have enough power. The led blink because he's too big, with smaller cap no more blink but a low light.

I get ~1.3V with no load and it drop to 0.5V connected to the joule thief.

kamax
That is cool.

Are you willing to time this?
Just let it run until it stops running?
Give daily or eventually weekly then monthly updates?
I am curious to see if this will just keep on going.

Last year, or 2 years ago by now, I put a series battery together using aluminum foil and carbon (carpenter's pencil). It worked well lighting a led with no other part. No joule thief etc.
It lasted 2 full days, as I recall. Finally I took it apart because one electrode was gummed up.
The theory is that when it is in the earth and perhaps in pots of earth the battery elements will continue to work.
I would like to know. And, since you have set this up I hope you will be willing to report.

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@cap-z-ro,
I am paying attention to those reports. Please keep them coming.
The pulsing you were providing was much slower than the pulsing normally present in the earth, but, or because of this it is helpful.

thank you,

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

Kamax:

Nice work.  I have to say so others don't get confused that this is not an EER or an EB.  What you are getting will be galvanic only and it will eat up your metals over time.  Now, this is not to say that it is not worth doing.  Quite the contrary.  To tap the electric and magnetic earth currents the metals need to be in the earth.  Maybe your way is a good idea for testing different arrangements for the best results prior to digging holes in the earth.  I will be the first to admit that it is a real pain to remove electrodes and other ERR devices once buried.

Keep up the good work and please keep sharing your results.

Bill

[jeanna]

That is right Bill,

Here is the part I want to test.

There are 2 categories in earth batteries.

The galvanic part and the pulsed part.

In the galvanic part, if these elements get eaten up or even gum up over time, then we will have an indication that the soil components have no play in the way the EB's of old lasted. (And this will mean they lasted because of the magnetic pulses, currents)

Since Kamax's set up is purely galvanic yet made in soil as electrolyte, this is the perfect way to learn if or how much the soil itself is stopping the electrodes from dissolving.

I am very interested to find out this part.

Many times forum people will say, "purely galvanic" and dismiss it.
If it is soil microbes or minerals that are replenishing the metals, then being in pots in the house will make it the critical step different from soil in the changing mag fields of the earth. And let us know.

thank you both for bringing this up,

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

@ Jeanna:

Thank you.  I agree totally.

Bill