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@ Bruce:

Yes, I believe we have seen that before, I know I have because, except for using the plates, that is exactly what I am doing. (as far as I know) + to polar north, - to polar south.  The greatest potential is seen when moving the electrodes apart, to a point, at least for me. I have a very small area to work with here at my little apartment. Possibly, if I moved them 200 feet away it might improve yet again and to a higher degree.  I have no way to know or find out.  I did some testing involving placing the north elecrrode in deeper than the south and did see some improvement, but not a lot.  My best is with the carbon rod (now 8.5 inches long) and the magnesium block (only three inches long) I want to get another mag. block to put into the series tests but for now, I am using 2 zinc coated spikes.  They are actually deeper than the carbon now, but I had my meter on them when pushing them in and it got better the deeper I went so I kept going.

@ Hans:

A thought just occured to me about Stubblefield.  After reading your research post I began to think about a picture I saw of some of Stubblefields earth batteries all laying in a barrel or bucket.  It seems obvious to me that he was using them in series to get useful electricity as they appeared to be wired together.  So, what if there turns out to be no ac component or even pulsed dc and his "coil" arrangements are nothing more than an efficient "antenna" to receive the telluric currents?  As Bruce posted, the way to get more surface area easily is to use coils.  A ten turn coil has probably more surface area than an eight foot long piece of metal.  What do you think?  I know he used two different types of metal in his arrangement and he did that for a reason as well. I don't know why at this point.

@ Duff:

Thanks for the patent info.  I will look at it and see what it is.

Bill

@ Duff:

That patent info is great stuff!!!!  The first part of the device just looks like a chain-link fence though, ha ha.  The one thing at the begining of the patent wording struck me. The telluric currents have diurnal characteristics and move up vertically from the ground toward the sun.  I had to look up diurnal and got three different but similar meanings all having to do with the center of the earth and the sun. IF this is true, then my poles should be horizontal not vertical and we should probably be using plates not rods. (harder to obtain)  How does this guy "know" this I wonder? Has this been proven do you think?  Does anyone here know about this?  Thanks again for the info.

Bill

G'day Gentlemen,

I am glad you like my essay, there will be a few more if you wish.

I have noticed that all of you are using digital multimeters. They are terrific, I own one myself, but they are not very well suited for the kind of work you are doing. For what you are trying to find out you absolutely need an analogue meter. It's the next best thing to an oscilloscope.

Let me explain.

A digital multimeter takes a sample of, say a voltage, every second and displays the result. The result is very accurate, and that is where those meters shine. The reason why the sampling rate is so slow is that the display would be unreadable if there were any fluctuations in say the voltage. The figures just would whizz up and down with the voltage and you could not read the numbers.

In an analogue meter the needle moves with the current in real time. This gives you the opportunity to observe fluctuations and trends. The values are not as accurate as in a digital meter since you have only two inches or three of scale to work with, therefore the resolution is poorer. But for observing movement in the current there is nothing like it. In the old days we had a lot of nicknames for certain needle phenomena. There was the tick, the fall, the long fall, the hiccup, the floating needle and so forth. They all meant something.

I would strongly suggest you guys go out there and get one of those things. It does not have to be an expensive one since all you want to do with it is to observe trends. For precise measurements you have your digital one.

You should be able to find something reasonable for about twenty bucks or so. I guarantee you will never regret it.

Have fun

Hans von Lieven

http://www.icehouse.net/john34/stubblefield.html

on end of this paper.

Pese



P.S.
i am very sceptic about this)