elemental rod

[Koen1]

@Grumpy: sounds like you're headed for my Crystal Cell thread dude

But I think we must keep in mind that the rod device showed AC characteristics:
or at least, the Japanese advert claimed AC output... And in most videos of
the thing one can see a bulb lit by touching it to the rods directly. This seems
to show that whatever current is produced, is not simply collected from the
rods and then inverted by a circuit to turn it into AC output at the socket,
but rather the energy can be tapped directly off the rods, which seems to
suggest that the 2 rods themselves already produce some form of AC...
Now you can stack different elements all you want, and you may very well
be able to get some nice diode and/or rectifier effects, but that is not anywhere
near an output comparable to that of a wall socket, which is what the Japanese
ads seemed to claim (according to translations made at the time).

I have been experimenting with "Crystal energy cells" for quite some time now,
along parallel lines to the related research done by Hutchison and Reid,
of which the goal is to make a cell of chemically inactive material that does
produce output. So a non-galvanic battery kind of idea.
In quite a number of my cells I use quartz and several other elements.
So far none of the cells made by Hutchison, Reid, and myself, seems to
produce more than a couple of Volts of tension, at a couple of milliAmps.
No AC, nowhere near a wallsocket.
But at least they're not galvanic batteries.

@pauldude000: Lol funny that you bring up Hutchisons cells just before
I post my message about my own experiments in that field.
We've got an active thread on the subject right here on the forum:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,972.0.html
If you're interested, see you there.

[newbie123]

Both rods are black on the outside, and silver/metal color on the inside.  Why is this?  Could the rods be tungsten and tantalum with some sort of coating (dielectric, maybe)?

Also, he stats the elements are compressed, maybe the black outside layer is compressing the elements inside.  What do you guys think?

[newbie123]

Maybe uranium dioxide? That could explain the jar on the outside to keep moisture off the rods.

[Motorcoach1]

I haven't seen a real clear video of it , but what I did see was the carbon on the outside so i guess murcury laced rod and maybe lithum film witha special secret candy coating mmmm popcicle

[Bob Smith]

FWIF, I don't know if this has been already mentioned, but it seems that carbon-coated stainless steel is a negative resistor. Check out this video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4uP-twgoA
Could it be the rods are perhaps 2 different metals inside a carbon sleeve?
B