Bentonite is great for getting an excellent conductive ground.

Link to article: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx/antenna/ground/bentonite.html

The bentonite idea sounds good.
Charcoal powder has been used for many years to help create a better ground too.
I've seen it in old text books for grounding crystal radio sets.
They showed a copper plate surrounded with charcoal powder.

@ epiphany
and abbarue, welcome to the group.
Bentonite
This sounds like a good item of information to be included in the Stubblefield site, I had better get some bentonite soon and try it out.
I saw a post some where back in one of the patients, someone had done the same thing using sulphur cake as a grounding medium.

Looks like I will have to dig up my electrodes and plonk them in this stuff 

I didn't know about the usage charcol either as a grounding substance, but then charcol (or graphite) has conducting properties.

Making a magnetic rod
I had an idea the other day (last week) about magnetising a steel rod or bar, then bifillar wind on the bar. My theory is the "iron" wire wound on the iron rod becomes magnetic, ans as we know, if a magnetic field collapses it induces an EMF pulse through the secondary, but it occurs in any coil wrapped around the iron bar.
If the magnetic field can be made to resonate with the magnetic field in the iron bar, it should be able to have a continuous output.

The trick is to find the trigger to create the process. NS did it and if he did then why can't anyone else?

Anyway I found a 1 inch wide, 1 foot long iron bar and I managed to magnetise it by stroking it with a strong speaker magnet I had. I held the bar in my left hand and placed the magnet about half way, then draw-ed it towards  and off the end of the iron bar. It's a booring bit of work, so I walked around outside, I stroked the iron bar about 100 times. In the end the iron bar became magnetic, but the magnetic field was very very weak, but it's a beginning.
   
jim

Jim:

If you go back.....waaaaaay back into the very beginning of this long topic, Joe and I discussed something similar to this magnet idea.  I just got the crazy idea of placing a very powerful neo magnet on top of my - electrode in the ground.  This was in the early days of multiple electrodes as opposed to the coils.  As I recall, my results went up a bit, as did Joe's.

I don't know how this might apply to the iron core in the coils but, like I always say, why not try it and see?  To me, whenever I see iron, it is just begging to be magnetized.  This will either disrupt the electron flow, or enhance it.  There are very powerful neos to be had for cheap prices.  I took this one out of a shake to charge flashlight when I stole the supercap and the led out of it for making some of my video experiments on youtube.  The entire light cost me $4.00 and the magnet is about 1/2" dia by about 1 and 1/14" long and very strong.  This is the same magnet I carried with me into the stores to "test" iron materials for my core.  That is why I ended up using the zinc coated spikes because the magnet would hardly let go of them.  The other "iron" rods I tested were weak on the magnet.

I still have not given up on all of this.  I have, fortunately, been very busy with work which means maybe some possible disposable income to use to buy supplies...wire, magnets, meters....etc.

I kind of like the antenna idea, I have seen this before.  I would like to make one and wire it in series with one or more of our coils.  No telling what we might get.  Probably not good in an electrical storm though.  Take care Jim.

Bill

@ Bill,
Hello Bill, nice to see you again, it's good to have a break from the NS stuff and recharge the cells  .
I had better go and read up, wayyyyy back lol, I had,nt realised you and Joe had done this experiment, I know where to get my hands on one of these torches, if I can't get that one I'll buy another one and try it next weekend.

I hammered a iron bar vertically into the earth a few months ago and wrapped about 350turns of insulated fig8 wire around it, but nothing seems to be happening there.

I had my eyes opened today Bill, I was repairing the windings of a foreign made aircompressor, the start windings were open circuited, the ends looked like there was solder at the ends, so I got out the soldering iron, tried to solder the ends. Nope, no chance, then I twisted them, the wires felt very "soft", taking a closer look, they were made from aluminium varnished coated wire. I used a nylon cable terminal block, and the motor worked. Copper being the price it is today, the electric coils seem to be made of ally, does the same thing, but I wonder if it would stand up to the temperatures some of these motors operate at? Time will tell.

On another topic, I came across a electric fence tester meter that can measure from 0 to 10 Kilovolts, this has a moving coil magnet arrangement, but the coil movement is jammed with dirt, it has 1 transformer, 4 x 1n4004 diodes, 2 resistors, 1 Tpot and 1 x 6.8uF 250v capacitor. 
I'll do a reverse engineering on the circuit later on and post it on the forum here. Maybe "others" making SS HHO cells might like to replicate it?
Chemtrails have hit our place now, weather has been awful since then, took some picks.
Did my washing, then the chemtrails appeared, wonder if that stinking rotton stuff gets into fresh washing?

In regards to the aerial experiment, I have thought of using MIG welding wire, this comes on spools, sometimes there seems to be several spools thrown out at the dump, the wire seems to loose its protective coating and can't be used. I thought of making a aluminium foil disk, for the top end of the wire and pull the lot upwards in a hydrogen filled balloon, connect the other end to a sparkplug n earth, just to see if it would work. Could get it to go pretty high using that method. I suppose one could do the same thing by dropping the wire end over a cliff face.

I better be off I talk to much

jim