Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Pirate88179]

@ Jeanna:

If you "cook" tree sap you may end up with maple syrup.  (sorry, small joke here)  What about tourmaline?  I used to be a geology major a long time ago and I remember that tourmaline gives off an electrical charge when heated or cooled.  Very similar to pizo material which might be another option.

Bill

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@Bill:    Looks like we are building quite a team here, now we have a geologist. 

Tourmaline is used in most of my mixes these days, I just haven't worked out the correct ratio yet. It will come.
I have some large tourmaline crystals which you can measure the voltage on them, but I'm not sure whether they retain any potential when they are ground to dust, the individual particles that is.

Anyway heres an update on the mix made on 2nd March. The ingredients were posted on the 4th March.
I call this one the Pyrites cell.
The initial open circuit voltage was 1.3V. Placing a 330Kohm resister across the cell started to reduce the voltage.
To speed things up a bit I hooked the cell up to my data logger and changed the load resistor to 10Kohms.
For the last 9 days the voltage across the cell has remained stable at 0.8 V with a load current of 80uA.
I will leave it in this configuration for at least another week.

The sulphur cell continued to give 200mV open circuit so 3 days ago I strapped it across a 22 Farad supercap. The cap was fully discharged before I started.
Today the voltage across the cap is 68.3 mV.  Again I'll leave this in place for another few days.

Next on the to do list is to increase the surface area of the anode WRT  the cathode.  Also I'll try a cell with Bentonite as the main ingredient. Thanks jeanna 

@Koen: I cannot find a supplier for TiO2 in Australia so we'll have to rely on you for your test results .

That's about it for now.

All the best

Ian

[Pirate88179]

@ Ian:

I just want to correct the record here, I am not a geologist, I was a geology major in college for two years before switching majors.  I just don't want anyone to think I am more than I am.

Has anyone attempted to call Hutchison?  Not that he will tell us anything but he seems like a decent guy.  He may at least give a clue as to what materials are involved without giving away his formula.  Just a thought.

Bill

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@Bill:   "A major in geology"  thats close enough for us. Thanks for the clarification though.

I have tried to contact JH some time ago but no luck. Perhaps we should invite him to join the forum, that would be interesting.
Most of the info we have came from his videos.


Ian

[Feynman]

JH appears to have enough surplus high voltage equipment in his apartment to keep him occupied for the next decade or so.      But I think if we could contact him, he would have no problem helping the open source community.