The Super-iron battery is a new class of rechargeable battery.
"Super-iron" is a moniker for a special kind of iron salt (iron(VI)).Potassium ferrate (K2FeO4) or barium ferrate(BaFeO4), used in this new class of batteries. As of 2004 chemist Stuart Licht of the University of Massachusetts was leading research into a Super-iron battery.Use of ferrate cathodes was tested and patented by Amendola as well as other patents."...the new employs salts of an unusual ionic form of iron â€" hexavalent or superoxidized ironâ€"that readily accept three electrons per ion, Licht explains. The more electrons the cathodean accept, the more electricity the battery can supply." â€"Peter Weiss. It uses the same zinc anode and electrolyte as an alkaline battery, but its capacity is around 50% higher.


Here is it's application:  http://www.ou.edu/class/che-design/a-design/projects-2003/SUPER%20BATTERY-SUMMARY.pdf

Quote from: NickZ on March 02, 2012, 11:03:24 AM

  Ib2:  What is needed is to show that by using only voltage in your cells, something useful can be obtained from it. Not just to dimly blink an led on an oscillator, as that has no useful purpose.  Yes, even trees, and rocks, have some energy to them, but it is all due to what is external to them, and how they all interact with the surrounding field energies.
 
                              NickZ

I've been thinking very hard on how to make a low amp cell useful and I think I may have a idea. We keep seeing these cells as batteries but they don't give much amps at all so we must stop looking at them as batteries but instead look at them as components. I'll include a picture below of a rough draft of a idea I have to use low power crystal cells as components. 


You have C2 fully charged (1.5V) and powering the circuit. The circuit powers a LED and then it dumps it into C3. The crystal cell is in parallel with C3 and it helps to charge C3 too, the crystal cell puts back in the energy that was lost do to heat from the circuit. The Crystal cell "picks up the slack" and thus puts a higher charge into C3. C3 can now be swapped with C2 so that you can repeat the process. The LED will run for a long time if you swap the capacitors over, the Crystal cell will put the energy in that is loss do to the natural loss of circuits.



This is just a rough idea.

My concern is that we do not have the heat that comes with summer right now.I started my experiments in the winter.About the second week of january.So I have not had a chance to see how the heat of a hot car will affect my batteries.I think I will make six more cells using buttermilk in place of vineagar.I realized today too that eyedrop bottles could be used to measure out drops of vineagar or whatever once they are cleaned out.Maybe a couple of bucks for the cheapest eyedrops?Iron could be the key here.Iron rust(iron oxide) should be easy enough to come by.triffid

I do see these cells as self charging capacitors if that helps anyone. Someone else here thought of them as diodes once upon a time.triffid

Quote from: triffid on March 02, 2012, 08:31:56 PM
I do see these cells as self charging capacitors if that helps anyone. Someone else here thought of them as diodes once upon a time.triffid

I still do lol... But it seems we are retracing discoveries that are previously been discovered. Edison, Stubblefield and even newer discoverers. The earth battery is about the closest thing to the super iron battery. This super iron seems to be a super oxygenated iron that converts between iron(3) and Iron(6). Just like the Edison battery it relies on irons ability to transition between the two very easily.


These are diodes in all effects. The electrodes hold the potentials that bias the diodes on or allow current flow through the diodes and naturally the diodes leak in a reverse manner. Think of a pipe with holes drilled in it. Create a vacuum and it sucks in the environmental energy via the pipe holes. Except this is a diode. It only allows environment in and not out causing a pulsating flow out of the diode.