Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[sm0ky2]

85 probes in the ground now...
i gradually realized that straightening papersclips is a painfully monotonous chore...

so i picked up a 100-ft spool of galvanized steel wire.
seems to work pretty much the same for volts. but only half as much current as from a paperclip. so i have to use 2 to 1.
but i save time and fingertips this way, and allows me to continue my efforts.

i'll post more results tonight after im done adding to this mess i call an "earth battery"...

[jeanna]

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@Jeanna, Thank you for all that data must have taken some time to compile. I'll have to look through it closer. Does you scope have any way to record the raw data(.csv)?

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Nope, sorry.
It is purely hand held, but it is a real scope according the box. Not a rendering from a dmm, which is why I bought it.( Also, I wanted one that could go out to eb's!)

I think all the numerical information is on the right hand side in that column.

It is reading peak to peak voltage. Did you see my youtube explanation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfwMFrqGtaE
That might be a helpful way to introduce you to this scope and what I am looking for.
You have a real scope don't you?

jeanna

Edit:
I saw your post and your dream on the link.
so great go for it !

mmm love those leggos

[kamax]

Hi Kamax,

In the crystal battery thread I made a lot of things like the ones you are making.
They all, without exception stopped working when they were dry.
There is serious galvanic stuff going on inside the wet cement which is very alkaline, and it dissolves the aluminum. You may have noticed this. It takes very little time to dissolve lots of aluminum.

I am not saying this to discourage you.

Have you no piece of ground to stick some probes?
There is something really special that happens in the ground.
You could do your cement experiments along side the earth probes.
We could use your datalogging information.

thank you,

jeanna

Thanks for the info jeanna, that's what i think too about cement. More the cells are dry less they give power but i want to see it by myself and i have make some cement/earth mix 
I have seen some pics of the marcus reid crystal battery and some looks very close to mine. He's battery was tested and give output, not a lot, but for many years.

I don't live in a house so it's a little hard to put someting in the ground

Someone has tested with the house copper pipe and the ground ?

[jeanna]

He's battery was tested and give output, not a lot, but for many years.

Yes, we were not successful, but it sure was a lot of fun mixing those things together.
I think Ian had the best one. He charged his then put it into the deep freeze.

Someone has tested with the house copper pipe and the ground ?

You could put 2 probes into a big flowerpot with soil and take measurements every day.

We need that kind of control for our tests. You will get some millivolts. Maybe 1 volt. If you look at localjoe's first post when he opened up his thread, you will see that is what he did.

But, it would be helpful to have some people make in-the-house flowerpot batteries to compare with in-the-ground batteries, so please do this.

thank you,

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

Excellent idea.  This is exactly why I had asked Jim to do an out of ground on the table test, just so we might be able to ascertain the difference the earth currents are making on these devices.  It would make a good control and if a lot of folks did it, we could see if the percentage of gain would hold to some sort of constant a various locations on the planet, or if it would be all over the place.

I remember testing my original set-up out of the ground and did not get much.  Looking back, when I set the new one up, I should have put a meter to it.  Oh well, just shows my hindsight is still working, ha ha.

Bill