Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[electricme]

@Bill,

Thanks Bill,

@ Jim:

That EB system with the red paint in the post above also turned up in our old EB topic research.  I didn't think too much about it back then as I thought that the materials might degrade due to galvanic reactions.  Maybe they don't.

Also, there is some guy on youtube that made a video about his "earth battery" (His term)  made in an ice tray, sitting inside on his table. (Not outside in the earth)  He reports getting 12 volts from his series hook-up, but no telluric currents in his kitchen and he also reports hardly any power at all from it.  Now that one I am convinced is most, if not all, galvanic. I don't think he lights even 1 led with it.  Now see, your set-up lit that very brightly with no help from a cap or JT circuit so, here is the thing....we know leds will light with high voltage but that is not what you were doing so, this tells me you ALSO must have good mA's to get that to fire up like that.  Now this, I have never seen before from a series setup like that, not anywhere, not ever.
Until you did it.

I remember you posting about touching your bridge and the led lighting up. (now that you reminded me, ha ha)  Your antenna was longer than mine, and mine was just cobbled together in like 5 minutes.  I need to do a better job of it next time and use a much longer piece of wire, and mount it much higher.

Bill

I knew I had see this somewhere before, years ago, back in the stubblefield days, but it wasn't in the web address weriy provided, and I didn't think much of it then, well, we were stubblefielding then, I was looking through a HHO web site and I think I saw it there, but its too long ago to be sure.

Actually, I think you just might have stumbled on why none has even thought to replicate it, the article says to use "red paint", so what comes immediately to mind? paint scratches, so the paint barrier is broken, no-one wants to scratch paint, so what happens? people simply don't  replicate it.

Bill I think you provided the answer without realising it.

It's quite dark outside just now, and the LED is not on.
I went outside, and discovered one of the Zinc lead clips had earthed out, simply pulling it up a smidgen fixed it. LED back to working.

Jeanna mentioned she gives her setup a drink a water, so I did the same, the LED is blinding bright, hope it doesn't blow.


Thanks Bill

[Cap-Z-ro]

Jim, we'll probably never who did this first...but the fact you came up with it on your own places you among those who did.

Your great accomplishment still stands tall in my eyes.

Regards...

[IotaYodi]

@electricme or others.
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[jeanna]

Hey Cap-z-ro, wanna join us? It is really easy!

@all,
As promised, I soldered some hook-up wire onto a 7" long copper pipe  and a dipped nail. = (cu+, zn-)
I made a bunch of videos, but the 25hz frequency is just off from the 12fps of the camera. At least I thing that is what is going on. There is an extreme moire effect with any movement today. So, I guess I'll keepem, but only upload stills. Not too many people want to see the videos, so it is not worth it for a not very good video.

I got over 0.8vdc on this beginning setup. I am glad to see this. Hookup wire is about 14 gauge, so all the amps should be coming in too.  yeah, right!

Here they are
Oh, their names tell the frequency and voltage etc.
The last one which says 2.5Mhz is 2 waves, so it is really 5Mhz. The pic on that is that smooooth wave. I thought this was a lot more interesting.

OK day 1 on my basic EB

jeanna

[Cap-Z-ro]

" Hey Cap-z-ro, wanna join us? It is really easy!"

Ha Jeanna...you're either stealing my thunder of psychic.

This very afternoon I planted and watered my wacky idea.

I metered it about 2 hours later and it read .5 vdc and started dropping as soon as I placed the probes on the terminals.

It remains at .3 vdc.

What I did was take a 3 1/2" high x 1 1/2" wide  cap with a bare aluminum jacket...wrapped around it is a green iron garden wire coil with both ends free and unattached above the soil in a ceramic flower pot on the kitchen floor .

I hava another cap of similar size...the alum jacket on this one is painted.

I am considering whether or not to remove the paint before wrappping and planting that one.