Energy Reciever design

[FreeEnergy]

Easy experiment to light up a small red L.E.D (not fully but enough to notice)

parts list:

one piece of copper tubing around 10cm long (length isnt important as long as you can hammer it into the ground firmly)
one galvanized (zinc) screw.
2 alligator clips
1 compass
some water

find some firm soil to hammer your copper tube into the ground about half it's length.
grab your compass and find north and align it to your north probe. take note of where south is on your compass and make a mark there and push your screw into the ground, about a foot apart from your copper tube is fine.

copper will be positive, zinc screw will be negative.

add some water to the ground around your probes to boost the current even more if ground isn't already moist or wet.

You should get around 0.85v-1.00v depending on magnetic alignment of probes + other various factors I wont go into for now. The magnetic alignment is important as it increases the current considerably.

connect your L.E.D up and it should light up dimly if you have done it right.

You wont power your house with it, but it is a very simple cheap experiment to demonstrate power from the ground. If you are feeling energetic you could add some sort of circuit and capacitor to collect the charge for later use.

Enjoy

sounds really good! welcome to OverUnity.com.

i am guessing the bigger and conductive the electrodes are the better results. the aligning and distance is very important  between your south and north.

hmm maybe the size isn't that important.

thanks for sharing

please tell us more



peace 

[hartiberlin]

What is the difference to a Copper-Zinc galvanic cell battery ?
For sure the copper and zinc material is used up
so maybe you can try also a graphite rod instead of the copper,
that would give you at least only one consumable eletrode ?

How much short circuit current do you get ?
Voltage alone is not important, it depends on
the current you can draw with this setup.

Can you draw more short circuit current than 20 MilliAmps ?

Does the short circuit current change, if you change the
position to north or south alignment ?

Regards, Stefan.

[Rydan]

Thanks for the Welcome FreeEnerg.

There's not really a great deal more I can tell you about the experiment, other than it's just an example of how to get a little bit of power output from galvanic action boosted by magnetic alignment. It is true that you could use electrodes even further apart in the electro-potential series to get even greater voltage output. You could also use probes of larger surface area, and putting them futher apart to perhaps increase current. Though there are better materials to use than copper and zinc, they are relatively easy to get hold of and reasonably inexpensive - most people would have a few galvanized screws and maybe a piece of copper laying about. You could use gold and platinum probes and would get quite a nice voltage, but overkill in cost for the power output.

Re: Hartiberlin

Well it's pretty much the same thing, but you get a boost in current from the magnetic alignment. As for actual output current, I don't really know but can only guess it to be around 20-30ma. I could be wrong, but it will light up a red led rated at 30ma from a voltage of around .85-.90v so must be some current there. I know that if you get your alignment in a special sweetspot the current will be continious upto a couple of months as long as you keep the ground moist. The magnetic alignment seems to do two things, boost the current output and also give consistent current output.

If you don't use the magnetic alignment, your current drops considerably to the point where your probes won't light up the L.E.D at all.

Hope this helps.

[FreeEnergy]

Thanks for the Welcome FreeEnerg.

There's not really a great deal more I can tell you about the experiment, other than it's just an example of how to get a little bit of power output from galvanic action boosted by magnetic alignment. It is true that you could use electrodes even further apart in the electro-potential series to get even greater voltage output. You could also use probes of larger surface area, and putting them futher apart to perhaps increase current. Though there are better materials to use than copper and zinc, they are relatively easy to get hold of and reasonably inexpensive - most people would have a few galvanized screws and maybe a piece of copper laying about. You could use gold and platinum probes and would get quite a nice voltage, but overkill in cost for the power output.

Re: Hartiberlin

Well it's pretty much the same thing, but you get a boost in current from the magnetic alignment. As for actual output current, I don't really know but can only guess it to be around 20-30ma. I could be wrong, but it will light up a red led rated at 30ma from a voltage of around .85-.90v so must be some current there. I know that if you get your alignment in a special sweetspot the current will be continious upto a couple of months as long as you keep the ground moist. The magnetic alignment seems to do two things, boost the current output and also give consistent current output.

If you don't use the magnetic alignment, your current drops considerably to the point where your probes won't light up the L.E.D at all.

Hope this helps.

nice stuff, so couldn't we just use a neodymium magnet to simulate the north and south? then just calculate how far or near the probes should be from the magnet. inside a sandbox maybe?

[tao]

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