Harvesting Energy from Earths Electrostatic Potential

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Conrad:

No bridge, no diodes at all.

Electrodes are:

North (meridian, not magnetic) Carbon rod
South("       ") magnesium block

I discovered by accident that I did not need any diodes.  The system puts out about 2 volts as read on a DMM but, it is pulsed dc so the DMM probably does not read it correctly, plus the spikes are so big they must keep the energy flowing into the cap and not back out of it. 

Since the beginning, I wondered why the energy did not flow from the cap back into the ground, but it does not.

A lot of this was being discussed over at the earth battery data logging topic started by Electricme (Jim) from Australia.

Ah, I hear Austria is a beautiful place, especially Vienna.

Bill