Quote from: jeanna on October 02, 2009, 11:33:50 PM
I guess you COULD call that an earth battery.
I am not sure where the notion of 'true' comes from, however.

the true Earth Battery uses only Earth soil as the destructive anode and cathode elements for ionic exchange.(only thing that needs refilling when depleted).

the stainless steel plates take no part in the chemical reaction other than to transport electrons as a nondestructive anode and cathode.(reusable over and over again).

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Have you made one yet?

not since high school science class was in session.

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I am not about to add metals to my soil even if it is contained in a stainless box, so I will wait to hear from you.

you're not really adding any metals to your soil, your soil already contains metals and metaloids and transitional elements, the best setup is to use dissimilar soils, get some good screened soil from your back yard then get some soil 10 miles from your house and then screen that soil and then assemble your ingredients, the higher the dissimilarity between the two soils the better, if you know what elements are already in your soil then you can look them up on the electronegative chart and get some good data to help you increase your Earth Battery efficiency.

Jerry

All real earth batteries or EER's are placed in the earth itself.  Containers of dirt are not earth batteries as they can not receive the earth's telluric currents.  Maybe you could call it a dirt battery but, if you read what has been done here so far, as well as the work of Tariel Kapanadze, you will see the real potential (no pun intended) of earth batteries or earth energy receivers.

100 kw out of the earth is nothing to sneeze at.  It is free and does not use up anything.  It is, of course, not really a battery which is why we have been calling them earth energy receivers.

I have been able to light 400 leds as well as two 48" tubes from my EER and, so far, both electrodes are just fine.  My carbon rods have been buried in the ground for over 2 years now.

Bill

Quote from: Pirate88179 on October 03, 2009, 01:44:31 AM
All real earth batteries or EER's are placed in the earth itself.  Containers of dirt are not earth batteries as they can not receive the earth's telluric currents.  Maybe you could call it a dirt battery but, if you read what has been done here so far, as well as the work of Tariel Kapanadze, you will see the real potential (no pun intended) of earth batteries or earth energy receivers.

100 kw out of the earth is nothing to sneeze at.  It is free and does not use up anything.  It is, of course, not really a battery which is why we have been calling them earth energy receivers.

I have been able to light 400 leds as well as two 48" tubes from my EER and, so far, both electrodes are just fine.  My carbon rods have been buried in the ground for over 2 years now.

Bill

Hi Bill.

do you have any current videos that I can chew on?

Jerry

I have watched some of Tariel Kapanadze's videos, I might say that it should be called an Earth Transformer not an Earth Battery.

Jerry,
You can call these what you want to, but we decided to agree on our terms because by doing that we save a lot of time and many misunderstandings.
Sometimes this helps us progress.

I do not have Bill's utube channel on this computer, but I think he is called pirate labs.
You can search for that or...
You can probably find his channel by searching for earth battery or joule thief or joule thief lights a fluorescent bulb or something like that.

jeanna

edit,
Your idea to make a stainless box and 2 soil samples from different areas is so different it probably warrants a new thread.
I will watch your progress as you make these, if you do.