Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[sm0ky2]

i dont think a photo of mine would be much help.
as it is pieced together out of 'stuff', looks like a mess....

best way to describe this, is just straighten a bunch of paperclips,(or any other soft iron) and stick them in the ground, slightly spaced out from one another. and connect the top ends together.

this is your negative lead.

then a copper wire/pipe/sheet as the positive lead.

the more 'probes' you have from the negative, the more current is captured.

my experimentation with multiple copper (positive) leads did not show any increase,

[Pirate88179]

Smokey:

This is interesting as I have never tried multiple neg. electrodes.  I actually have two positive electrodes on my set-up now (for about 1.5 years now) and I got an increase in both volts (not much ) and mA's. (pretty decent increase)

I have always been a fan of more mass/surface area for more amps and by increasing the area of my positive side, that is what I got.  Now I wish I had like 5 magnesium blocks on my neg. side after seeing your report.  I have much more mass than you do with my set-up yet, you have not that much less mA's than I have. (I average about 19 at this time)  I am going to have to try this approach.

What if you had 1,000 paper clips out there?  2,000?  I believe you can solder to a paper clip right so the hook-up would not be that hard to do.  I would like to hear Jim's view on this.

Thanks for posting this Smokey.  This is not something I have seen before in my experiments and would have missed.

Bill

[electricme]

@ kamax,

I can see you have come up against the "capacitive" effect which you are able to drain off all the "energy" within your cell.

I have seen this with my own setups here, you are not alone bro.

This is how I think what is occurring.

When the earth cell has no load, it accumulates its energy (it is very small), then the cell is charged, and I think more and more this occurs with telleric earth currents, and Galvanic action as well.

I you stick a tiny load (a LED) across the cell, the cell discharges its energy, the LED fades, then goes out. The cell is now disconnected because it has no energy, it then begins to refill, when it has reached a threshold, it begins to discharge once again.
The lower the resistance placed across the cell, the faster it will recharge and discharge, but when a resistance is too great, the process stops, as the energy cannot replenish the cell quickly enough.

If you keep the same test LED and move it to a physically larger earth cell, you will see it will light up brighter, and probably it will stay on.

I make new cells with different copper size. The first is with a very small copper pipe but it stop working after some minutes, the led blink always more slow and stop. If i open/close the circuit the led restart to blink but slow down again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swN1prrb5hs

And here is another version with a bigger copper pipe into. The led blink faster and run for ~2h now without any slow down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjjxcs1E20

In each setup it works only with one cell

You are doing excellent work with your experimental EER cells, keep going, it's worth it.

I will take a look at your videos shortly, it was washing day for me, so half the day had house chores, lol.

Jeanna, I have managed to see a couple of your videos, the NS cell setup and the scope, this is very good stuff.
Well done.

I think I fixed a dog barking problem next door, had to prop some roofing iron sheets, against the fence, the dog can't see me now, so he don't bark. GOOD.
It would be better if the thing went away, triple good then.

Next announcement is a biggie, another breakthrew.
 

jim

[sm0ky2]

@ Bill, my positive side is already pretty massive.

its made of three 6-inch square copper sheets.

it would take a lot more tiny paperclips to match that.

this may be why adding more to the pos. doesnt change much for me.

im still trying to figure out the logistics of connecting that many paperclips,.. right now im just tediously wrapping them around bare wire, like piano-keys. bit of a pain, but its worth the payoff.

one idea i had was to just stick them all in the ground, then 'weave' a wire around them all... i may give that a try

[electricme]

@ ALL

Making a SERIES EER earth cell bank.

OK I have been thinking, is it possible to connect a BANK of EER cells up to another BANK of EER cells.

What is going to happen if I attempt to connect two completly different EER Banks together, to make a bigger output.
Will I get sparks, will the voltage get higher, or lower, or would the EER banks just stop working.

Theres only one way to find out, DO IT.

So after I took the washing in, (I fold it and put it away Jeanna, but I'm highly allergic to the hot clothes iron, only exception is a soldering iron), like a good bloke  , I then went outside and made a series electrical EER Bank connection.

Gess what, no sparks, then looking at my meter, whackkkkkoooooo, the voltage rose up toooooooo     9 volts

The   7 series copper cells puts out 2.46 volts DC
The 12 series ally cells puts out 6.54v DC

Together they put out 9.12 volts DC

1st video = Trimmed plastic bags around the 12 series Ally cells, showing voltage 6.54 on my DMM

2nd video = shows the combined EER Banks = 9.12 volts

jim