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Ive been interested in earth batteries for some time now, but never got around to tying out. "Free" energy inventions is one of those things i'll serf the net for when i'm getting in my vodka time before bed. Some of the things are neat. My little LED lantern has a joule thief in it, and it will stay on for a month or longer off a set of aa batteries. Much of it B.S. just trying to sell some bogus plans to what are just step-up transformers. But ther are several earth battery patentsb from the 1800s, so i know there is something to it.
Well, today i was going through my tools, and i came upon my digital multimeter. The battery was still good, so i decided to make a simple earth battery and test it for myself. What i want to know is how to increase the voltage and current to a usable level for some practical purpose such as charging a laptop or LED garden lights. I used 6inch pieces of copper pipe left over from the solar water heater, and a couple of scrap pieces of angle iron. First i made one battery by driving both the pipe and iron strip into the ground in a north south alignment (like your supposed to) with the copper to north, and the iron to the south. I then put the copper over to the west, and got the same reading .8 volts. Then i made a row of them, north south, iron, copper, iron, copper, with a wire connecting the positive of one battery to the negative of the other. In a normal galvanic type of battery, the two cells should add up to 1.6 volts. However, the reading i got was .9 volts. and when i disconnected the wire between the middle of the two, the reading only dropped to 8.5 between the outermost copper pipe and iron bar. just adding the extra copper and iron in the ground seems to have added .05 volts and connecting them added another.05 volts. Thats very strange and i have know idea what's is going on in the ground that causes this. The ground is not just an electrolyte, because putting the poles closer together would have given a greater voltage if that were the case. It seemed that putting them farther apart actually increased the voltage.
Tomorrow i'm going to try four batteries, hooked together electrically
and not, and in different arrangements and soil types. I have some clay and silty areas, wooded or open ground. This really does seem to be some bizarre form of energy that modern science has neglected. Telluric currents? What ever it is, it does appear to be real.,P
Well, today i was going through my tools, and i came upon my digital multimeter. The battery was still good, so i decided to make a simple earth battery and test it for myself. What i want to know is how to increase the voltage and current to a usable level for some practical purpose such as charging a laptop or LED garden lights. I used 6inch pieces of copper pipe left over from the solar water heater, and a couple of scrap pieces of angle iron. First i made one battery by driving both the pipe and iron strip into the ground in a north south alignment (like your supposed to) with the copper to north, and the iron to the south. I then put the copper over to the west, and got the same reading .8 volts. Then i made a row of them, north south, iron, copper, iron, copper, with a wire connecting the positive of one battery to the negative of the other. In a normal galvanic type of battery, the two cells should add up to 1.6 volts. However, the reading i got was .9 volts. and when i disconnected the wire between the middle of the two, the reading only dropped to 8.5 between the outermost copper pipe and iron bar. just adding the extra copper and iron in the ground seems to have added .05 volts and connecting them added another.05 volts. Thats very strange and i have know idea what's is going on in the ground that causes this. The ground is not just an electrolyte, because putting the poles closer together would have given a greater voltage if that were the case. It seemed that putting them farther apart actually increased the voltage.
Tomorrow i'm going to try four batteries, hooked together electrically
and not, and in different arrangements and soil types. I have some clay and silty areas, wooded or open ground. This really does seem to be some bizarre form of energy that modern science has neglected. Telluric currents? What ever it is, it does appear to be real.,P