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In the video i saw, he was using an ice tray to seperate the cells so the voltages can be added in series. He admits to adding lemon juice to the dirt in order to get enough amperage to light the LED.
I like to fully understand the physics behind something, before i invest the time and money to build a prototype. That's why im doing these experiments, and im posting the results here so that others can repeat them or help explain the results. If i could just power an LED to keep my bathroom lit up all night, that would be a practical application. Earth batteries are supposed to last for years with no maintenance, so that would be "free" electricity. The highest voltage i've been able to achieve is .9 volts with no measureable current, so the verdict is still out on earth batteries. I've read about induction coils being used, but no clear drawings or precise explaination of how they are generating high voltages from the earth. Mosty of them seem to be trying to sell "secret" Tesla plans than the gov has concealed. Yeah right! Then how did that dummy get his hands on it!
Yesterday i put four pairs of copper and steel bars in the ground in a row, alternating steel and copper bars, about one foot apart. I connected each "cell" in series with copper wire. The difference in potential between the left most steel bar and right most copper pipe was 710 millivolts. When i disconnected the copper wires, the reading jumped up to 740 millivolts. This is not what i expected. When i removed all of the steel bars, leaving just one steel bar to the left, and four copper pipes about every two feet to the right, the reading between the outer most copper pipe and the steel bar was still 740 millivolts. The reading between the steel bar and the first copper pipe was 710 millivolts. The reading between the steel bar and the next pipe at four feet away was 720 millivolts. The next was 730 millivolts, and again, the reading between the steel bar and furthest copper pipe was 740 mv. When i removed the three pipes in the middle, the reading dropped to 710 mv. I then moved the copper pipe out to 12 feet away. The reading was still 710 millivolts.
It appeared that simply putting more copper in the ground somehow increased the voltage. The distance between the two electrodes seemed to have little effect. If anything, the readings where higher, the further apart they where. I will do a controlled experiment later today to confirm or disprove this. If i can eliminate electrolysis as the voltage source, this would leave induction or the Hall effect as the only means by which the Earth battery does what it does, unless there is some electrical phenomenon that i don't know about
I like to fully understand the physics behind something, before i invest the time and money to build a prototype. That's why im doing these experiments, and im posting the results here so that others can repeat them or help explain the results. If i could just power an LED to keep my bathroom lit up all night, that would be a practical application. Earth batteries are supposed to last for years with no maintenance, so that would be "free" electricity. The highest voltage i've been able to achieve is .9 volts with no measureable current, so the verdict is still out on earth batteries. I've read about induction coils being used, but no clear drawings or precise explaination of how they are generating high voltages from the earth. Mosty of them seem to be trying to sell "secret" Tesla plans than the gov has concealed. Yeah right! Then how did that dummy get his hands on it!
Yesterday i put four pairs of copper and steel bars in the ground in a row, alternating steel and copper bars, about one foot apart. I connected each "cell" in series with copper wire. The difference in potential between the left most steel bar and right most copper pipe was 710 millivolts. When i disconnected the copper wires, the reading jumped up to 740 millivolts. This is not what i expected. When i removed all of the steel bars, leaving just one steel bar to the left, and four copper pipes about every two feet to the right, the reading between the outer most copper pipe and the steel bar was still 740 millivolts. The reading between the steel bar and the first copper pipe was 710 millivolts. The reading between the steel bar and the next pipe at four feet away was 720 millivolts. The next was 730 millivolts, and again, the reading between the steel bar and furthest copper pipe was 740 mv. When i removed the three pipes in the middle, the reading dropped to 710 mv. I then moved the copper pipe out to 12 feet away. The reading was still 710 millivolts.
It appeared that simply putting more copper in the ground somehow increased the voltage. The distance between the two electrodes seemed to have little effect. If anything, the readings where higher, the further apart they where. I will do a controlled experiment later today to confirm or disprove this. If i can eliminate electrolysis as the voltage source, this would leave induction or the Hall effect as the only means by which the Earth battery does what it does, unless there is some electrical phenomenon that i don't know about