Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[PaulLowrance]

It would interesting to get about 12 of my dead n-type batteries, place them in-series, connect that to an LED. It would be so cool to see the LED never go out. Then do some data logging on the light level to see if there are any patterns in the light level over the months.

Even more important experiment would be to monitor the batteries temperature relative to room temperature. Buried somewhere on my other computer is a circuit that measures down to at least 1e-5 Kelvin!  If anyone would build this circuit then I would find the circuit and post it.

PL

[ian middleton]

Gday all,
yep I'm still around.
3 months of crap in my life has slowed things up a bit, but I'll have something to report soon.

Hi to jeanna, koen and bill.

Be back soon

Ian

[Popux]

I everyone. I spend the last few weeks reading stuffs on these Crystal Power Cells and I'm really interested to take part in those Open Sources Researches.

I'm preparing an ingeniering degre.

I can't find the last "correct" ingredients and "potocole" you used to create your cells.
(with 60 pages it's too complicated to find the correct one again)

Can anyone help me?
I hope we'll do great job togerther 

[PaulLowrance]

It's a bit sad to see the work on the crystal batteries slow down so much. My diode research has now drifted into Crystal research because it's believed to be caused by the same effect. Most diodes are made with monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon, both crystals. A EE, by profession, has successfully replicated my diode research, and during his research discovered that piezo elements also produce DC power. The experiments are conducted in heavy metal shielding. Measures were taken with an electrometer. His piezo produced over 3 volts, and up to 0.4 uA. That's not much current, but then again it's a wafer thin element. Also, I believe there are a lot better materials than piezo's.

Another commonality with piezo's and diodes, besides both being made with crystal materials, is there's a built in electric field. In diodes it's caused by the contact of two different types of materials at the junction. In piezo's it's due to the polarized ferroelectric material, which is often quartz. What's interesting, perhaps coincidence, is that the best piezo so far has produced ~ 10 tens DC voltage as the best diode, and the piezo electric field remanence is ~ 10 times higher than the diode. This electric field is not referring the any voltage one might apply on the piezo. It's the built in electric field due to permanent polarized dipoles in the polarized crystal.

All ferroelectric materials has coercivity, and thus an electric remanence. A permanent electric magnet if you will. That's what an Electret is. My recommendation is to use material that has the strongest electric field remanence as possible. Some key words to google search on would be -->

* ferroelectric
* hysteresis
* remanence
* Ec
* electret

To learn more about this try WikiPedia, which actually describes a very simple way of making an Electret. The key is applying the electric field while the material is melted.

Here's part of an email I sent to someone who has worked on the Crystal batteries, and with Marcus Reid -->

http://globalfreeenergy.info/2009/08/31/crystal-battery-email-exchange/

Please contact me if you find any good materials with high electric remanence. My email is found at my above blog site. IMO, it's not much longer before someone finds material that will produce over a watt of continuous DC power. Marcus Reid crystal batteries have been producing ~ a milli watt for ages. Maybe his newest batteries produce a lot more. Lets hope.

Regards,
Paul

[PaulLowrance]

A new blog post -->

http://globalfreeenergy.info/2009/08/31/major-research-breakthrough/

Paul