Get electricity from thin air.

[Lakes]

This brings memories of me building my first crystal set many, many years ago, I taped the wire to the ceiling!

[toasted]

Interesting idea.
Would be cool to power gadgets and stuff with it.  like my ipod

Not so sure we could power the world with it. But there is always hope.

[theb3e]

Pretty interesting stuff! I watched a mini doc and it was this ham radio guy that had large antenna's that he had to ground out because the voltage he was gathering with his antenna would fry his radio components.. I wonder if getting an antenna high up in the air then hooking it up to a circuit like this would yeild more?

What if you could hook it up to your home wiring (copper ground wire) to turn all the grounds in the house into an antenna?

I love trying out little things like this.. so off I go to put together the circuit!  I think I have everything here anyway.. why not!

[Pardon]

Pardon, did you try to hook it up like this following picture shows.

yes i did try that also. and i tested a voltage of only 2.3 vdc at the car coil then added a cap to catch a higher voltage and it never went over 2.3 volts no matter how i had the circuits connected i could not even charge a AA battery.

i tested my APM circuit at a record of 157 VAC and still no amp's present

and i still can't do a darn thing with it. bummer