Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[Pirate88179]

Has anyone tried charging a Earth Battery?

I just hooked the EB for two hours on a 15watt, 23v solar panel. My initial readings were 45u amps and 901mv. After two hours charging the readings were 254u amps and 1.29volts. I'll keep it charging and will check back around 5:00 to see what the readings are.

Yes, I tried this almost 2 years ago.  I used a nine volt battery after reading that Stubblefield sometimes needed to "jump start" his system.  now that we are looking into Tariel Kapandadze's work in which he does the same thing, I will have to go back and take another look.

From memory (Oh no, here we go...) I just hit the system with the 9 volt for about 20 seconds and all of my reading would go way up...just for a few minutes and then I could watch them go down.  Now I never tried pulsing it at various freqs so that might be interesting.  I do also recall posting this over on the EB topic that once when I did this, about 5 earth worms came flying out of the ground like their butts were on fire.  as some pointed out back then, this is a known method for catching worms for fishing.

Bill

[DreamThinkBuild]

I just checked the EB again about an hour and half later. The reading was 860mv 159ua. It dropped pretty fast. The current is dropping slower than the volts which just went below what I had this morning.

@Pirate, so if I put 90watts in the ground I should do it in the chicken yard or open a worm stand at the end of my driveway. What is the main frequency of the earth battery? I've had a hard time reading it with the scope.

[jeanna]

....or open a worm stand at the end of my driveway. What is the main frequency of the earth battery? I've had a hard time reading it with the scope.

worm stand 
Hi dream,

I have consistently been getting 2.3-2.5MHz as the ac on the carrier wave.
One time I measured the carrier wave to be around 50KHz but at other times it was either irregular or too hard to read. I think it only occurred to me recently that I could be reading the carrier wave as well as the smaller wave riding it.

But all this is in millivolts 20mv to 57mv depending on the day, and OVER the dc that the dmm reads.
I assume over that, otherwise where did those .983volts go?

EDIT
Since I was the last person to post I will add to it.

I have just been to a couple of inductance sites. I finally re-found the crystal radio calculator. which includes wire sizes in the calculation.
I mixed that with the RLC sliders at barrys coilgun site and looking for a
resonance with 2.2MHz to 2.5MHz
.8v
2 ohm
103pF
I found I wanted a coil of
.5uH. Cool now to make one of those with a wire wrapped around a bic pen
(3/8 inch)
24 or 26 gauge wire
7 turns

I wonder if this is close to what sm0ky2 made?

jeanna

[nightshade]

Hi all

here are some pics of my earth battery with voltage and current readings

[electricme]

@all

Electricme is back, ha ha, and I have a major breakthrew in earth batteries.

Nightshade, those vertical couggerated iron roof sheeting looks very nice there.

OK, time to upset the apple cart all over the place, throw out some old thinking that says it cannot be done with PROOF it can be done.

For those who don't know, I have been taking a very serious look at making a series EER setup, Earth Energy Recovery system, and I have succeeded.

I first posted my results on Bills Joule Thief Forum today and since this is the right place to post, so I will do so here.

OK, first off, I read somewhere that someone had made a series earth battery, everyone I knew on the OU site hasent done it, but I did it today, it was deemed an impossible task, so we all had to make dooo with piddling small voltages and currents.

Like most here, I have been fiddling around with Copper Rods, aluminium, steel plates, even throwing a sheet of lead into the mix, made a 8 inch horozontal setup, they all worked, up to a point, but the elusive series cell setup was always slipping out of our grasp. Everyone tried to make a series setup and failed, even myself, but I blitz Bills JT forum with success, I think a few members were asleap but answered phone calls to see what was going on.

Today the 31st of July in 2009 I electricme succeeded in making a series earth battery. IT WORKS

I documented my success by taking photos and small 3gp files which I would like to post here

There is a lot of information, and it will be all posted in this forum for now on, as I think I have dissrupted Bills JT forum enough. I have been fielding questions all day long and I need to put all my info here so anyone can replicate if they wish to.

I apologise to everyone here, me being away since the 19th page so I have a lot of reading to catch up on.

I notice a few new people here who I havent met, I will no doubt meet you all soon enough.
 
To begin, here is the working EER, it drives my White LED, no trouble at all, energy stright from the earth.

jim