Quote from: jeanna on January 22, 2008, 12:05:30 AM
I spent the day on some of the tpu threads.
At the end of my eyes, I saw this

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=3547.105

Marco did some single wire experiments that are cool AND may relate to what we are seeing with these earth batteries. I am thinking about the no voltage spot.

jeanna

Good Girl,

This is where my thinking lies at the moment. The Midpoint, the point of equilibrium. All these things we have discussed have at the crux of it the use of a midpoint, be it magnetic, electric or mechanic.

Whatever you do at that point affects the whole and with a minimum of energy to boot.

Keep it coming Jeanna, we are progressing, I feel it.

Hans von Lieven

Greetings all. I stumbled on this forum while doing research on earth batteries, and find a lot of people are in the same boat as I am trying to get electricity from the earths magnetic field. After reading a lot of the posts, I cast about for what materials I had around the house and came up with a handfull of copper pipe and a few zinc rods. I took them outside to my garden spot and aligned them on a N/S axis with the copper pipe being North, planted them about 2-3" deep standing up and around 18" apart. Bear in mind here that my soil was damp from a recent snowfall of 3 days ago, so I wasn't working with dry soil. My readings were a steady 1.3 volts DC on the first try. I then decided to see if I could connect them in series, so I planted 3 copper pipes and 3 zinc rods, took bare copper wire and hooked all the copper pipes together and all the zinc rods together and got a reading of .9 volts DC, hmmm somethings not right here. I then removed the wire from the zinc rods and touched one zinc rod to the three connected copper pipes and got the same thing, disappointed I the took the wire off the copper pipes and touched each individual set by itself and got the old reading of 1.3 vdc. Couldn't figure that one out, they don't seem to work in series at all, maybe its the damp ground, I'll go back and try again when its good and dry. That reading should have been 3.9 vdc not .9 vdc. I have other plans to try planting things like plates and TV antennas to see what if anything might happen. I'd also like to try Tesla's antenna device where he put a collector in the air, a plate in the ground, and hooked them to a capacitor to see if that works. This is a great thread, keep up the good work.

Quote from: MrSpates on January 22, 2008, 01:27:22 PM

Welcome to the thread Mr.Spates.  The reason the voltage is not adding, is that they are shorting out as you expected.  The soil is a decent conductor, maybe too good, so you will have to isolate one electrode as to not short out the other cell.  I just finished 2 isolated cells, but its been raining lately, so I can't test it out yet.  I'm sure if they are isolated they will add together like regular batteries.

Looking more at Stubblefields cell, I noticed he has wrapped his iron and copper windings in a tesla coil type fashion in the horizontal plane.  I think he was creating a decent rotating magnetic field, which is run by magnetic earth current.  My next cell when I get enough money will be to wrap windings in this way and see what it does.  I wonder if the winding were wound in opposite directions?

@ MrSpates:

Welcome to our efforts.  First, I don't think you were wiring in series if you connected  all the copper together, and all of the zinc, this is parallel I believe.  What you should have done was check your mA readings when doing that.  I think you will see your vdc dropped a little but your milliamps would have increased.  I would bet on it. This is how I am able to raise my mA readings.  Good luck and keep it up.  Keep us informed of your experiments.

Bill

How would you isolate the cells? The electrode has to be touching the earth doesn't it? so anything you covered the electrode with would have to be nonconducting and thereby blocking the flow of electricity to the electrode. I saw on one website where someone painted the copper pipe with red lacquer and placed the zinc inside the pipe. I don't know how the zinc was held in the pipe wheather it was touching the pipe or not. I tried holding the zinc first hanging it then touching it and got no reading at all. How can the current flow through paint or maybe plastic without shorting out everything else or can it? The guy claimed 1.5 volts per cell with his set up.