If you are a farmer and has land available, you can save a lot on your electricity bill.

A typical earth battery produces 20 milliamps and 1.5 volts. If the farmer build 50 earth batteries side by side with a spacing of 1 meter from each other, and connect the earth batterys in paralel, on 50 meters he has 1 ampere extracted from the telluric currents induced be Earth's magnetosphere (according to Wikipedia).

If the farmer build 500 batteries connected in parallel, in 500 meters he will have 20 amps.

If he connects 10 of that  "20 amps cells" in series, he will have 15 volts.

Since earth batteries are not so expensive to build, and can last for a lifetime with just some low cost maintenance, it may make sense for a farmer to build this array.

He can further rationalize the system by creating different sets of Earth batteries: some with more volts and less amps (to supply things like lighting) and others with less volts and more amps (to supply personal computers, for example).

"If the farmer build 500 batteries connected in parallel, in 500 meters he will have 20 amps"

I mean, he will have 10 (TEN) AMPS  .


In reallity with a huge 1000 x 2000 metters array he can have 150 volts x 40 amps!

If the wires are 2 meters above the ground, you can have a crop bellow the wires.

Unless the eletromagnetic radiation kill the plants...

OK, I need to ask:

Has anyone managed to connect two earth batteries in series and proved that the volts of each battery were added?

Has anyone managed to connect two earth batteries in paralel and proved that the amps of each battery were added?

Quote from: Rapadura on February 21, 2010, 08:27:01 PM
"If the farmer build 500 batteries connected in parallel, in 500 meters he will have 20 amps"
I mean, he will have 10 (TEN) AMPS  .
In reallity with a huge 1000 x 2000 metters array he can have 150 volts x 40 amps!

1 sq. mile = 3,097,600 sq. yards.
2000000 sq. meters is almost that.

You'll need a farm or ranch in the country for this to be feasible.  Most people don't have that kind of money or wherewithal to build or manage such a system.

--Lee