Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[hartiberlin]

http://www.flicklife.com/185b45ae4752a1e7d544/Battery_Hack_The_Planet.html

This link is to a pretty good video.  He said he is getting 1.5 amps I believe.  I think his rods are too close together and he could get more with a little experimentation.  He uses it to run an LED in his bathroom...for free.  A step in the right direction.  Read most of the patents, a few more to go.

Bill

Hmm, amazing !
1.8 Amperes !
How does he get so much current out of this cell ?
That is really amazing !

Have to try this soon myself.
Maybe the long rods are important ?

Would be interesting to see, if he would get the high
current also after a few days of usage..
Maybe he had just rammed the scratched blank surface
copper rod into the earth and so ithas a big surface in the soil.

Normally this only works as a galvanic cell
having around 0.8 to 1 Volts of voltage and
low milliamps current.
But1.8 Amps is really something, so this seems
to generate already around 1 Watts of power(probably the voltage
breaks down, if you short out the rods via the ampmeter...)

But surely you will consume both rods and spoil the earth with it,
so there will be dangerous copper salts and zinc salts
going into the soils, but I don?t know, how dnagerous they are...
Probably not the zinc salts,but probably the copper salts.
So don?t do this at a places where you draw water from a well  to drink.

Regards, Stefan.
P.S: A graphite rod and a Magnesium rod would give
the biggest voltage, around 1.5 to 1.8 Volts,
but the Magnesium rod would be consumed very fast.
I wonder how long this copper-zinc cell will
last,if this guy always draws about 1 amp....
Probably not too long...
Also the oxidation on the surface will after some time
raise the impedance and lower the output current a lot !
But just try it...

[Pirate88179]

Stefan:

From what I have read in the patents (Listed on wiki from a google search on earth batteries)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_battery

even after a long time in operation there is no breakdown or errosion of the metals.  They can be placed very far apart from each other, some say, the farther the better, so I don't see how galvanic corrosion can occur.  But, I am no expert in this, I just discovered this a few days ago after reading Localjoe's topic here.  I have been reading ever since and done a few experiments as well.  The patents make interesting reading and they allude to some pretty decent power outputs.  I think this phenomena is related to Tesla's opinions of earth energy, etc.  I will try to get up some video after doing a few more experiments.  This is easy to replicate and I think that if everyone tries something a little different, there is no telling how much the power might be increased. Localjoe is talking about the use of coils, etc, like in some of the patents.

Stefan, thanks again for this site.  If not for it I would have never heard of this very interesting topic, as well as many others.

Bill

[Localjoe]

I agree theres not many places now days where you can still have an intelligent conversation with someone. Ok so yea I wasn't kidding about the 6 to 8 foot space between the electrodes,in keeping with that if that redox reaction can still take place through that much soil tell me,  I didn't think that was possible especially when its been dry. The common factor i"m seeing in these patents as well is the use of an inductor whether to electromagnets or and iron core to make a transformer off of they all have a flavor of it.  And does polar alignment affect a redox reaction if so we could lean towards that, if not id say another strike for this not being a galvanic reaction.

[hartiberlin]

Hi Pirate and Localjoe,
if you ever get more than 50 milliamps shortcircuit DC current
out of your setup constantly for a few hours, please let me know.

If you want higher voltages you would need to put more cells in series, but this is problematic,
as if the earth gets wet all the cells will be just in parallel and not in series,
so you could try to insolate each cell from each other , so for instance put a big plastic foil around the
whole cell up to the top ground .
But then probably you will have a pure galvanic cell and no earth EM currents...
Hmm... if you also get AC on there this would also be interesting,
so try to take scope shots of the generated voltages.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards, Stefan.

[Localjoe]

Hmmm well i have no scope, and i think it would fry the computer program i have because of the voltage, the ac showes up on my analog meter but not my digital one so if that means anything to ya.  What im going to try is a transformer im making on a nail just for a test green radio shack 3 pack wire for the secondary like 100 turns and ive got some romex i striped and i think that it would make a nice primary which will connect to the earth electrodes copper and zinc 10 turns.  Now the leads of the green rat shack wire should probably be connected to a cap and a resistor ... so I can make some kinda oscillator. Thats another thing that i remember from many diff docs after the current is tapped you must draw from it at a certain intervals to obtain what they claimed sent raw em energy to the wires.  On a side note i plan to try a camera flash circuit with this to see how quickly it steps the voltage up and fills the cap more reports tomorrow.