OMG I can't believe you actually wired up all those diodes just for this video haha but you're right it did present a very clear picture of how the circuit would work. Thank you for putting it all that time and effort I learned a lot from this video!

Gotta be the hardest working man on KZfaq Thank you sir!

Outstanding Rob! You devised the best method I've seen to provide the viewer with a foundational understanding of those confusing diode voltage multipliers/dividers, and what it is we're actually doing here. Great work!

The omnibus is very good at revisiting these things you show. I understand it a little better now than before, seeing it all together here. Thank you.

Tinkered with electronics for a while, but this is the first time I've heard of a fractal capacitor. Very cool idea!

Rob, it always amazes me the stuff you manage to dig up but this has completely exploded my brain. Thank you once again.

Waoow! Robert it's real something to work on!!!! Thanks! /Mikael

That is friggin awesome! I had a sleepless night after watching this as to the number of potential applications. Thank you..... Now to go down the rabbit hole!

You are an excellent teacher and I thank you for going to all the trouble you went to in order to illustrate this concept for us KZfaq viewers! Ideally, this concept would be best applied not as a circuit board but as a single silicon wafer chip using present day chip technology. That’s the only way I think this idea would ever be economically feasible due to the economic costs of sourcing the components and actually assembling them together on say a production line. But for educational purposes, its brilliant as a proof of concept. As for your greater goal of harnessing environmental energy, I think Nikola Tesla did it with his resonant transformer design at Wardenclyff, which used the whole Earth as a capacitor plate. What you call “electrostatic” is really longitudinal dielectric. It’s a longitudinal standing wave in the Aether, which is formed by crossing two transverse magneto-electric currents at 180 degrees out of phase (as in a bifilar coil or bucking coil) so that they cancel out to form a single longitudinal standing wave in the Aether. On your mechanical rotary spark gap machine, which was creating high voltage impulses, the longitudinal wave is emitted at the discharge point of the spark gap for each cycle. Tesla’s hairpin circuit works in a similar fashion.

This will go down in history as your most important video. Thank you!

Yet another outstanding video, Robert!

A similar circuit can be used to improve power factor where the intent is to use rectified line voltage to run a DC load. The half voltage will persist between voltage peaks, so current fluctuation will be less if caps are correctly sized. The voltage halver would reduce the size of a choke to get a smooth current ripple.

An absolute gold mine. Thankyou.

What a fantastic episode!

As someone who just got into eletrconics ive heard of voltage dividers to reduce voltage using resistors, but not with capacitors, facsinating, killivolts to 1 volt? amazing! This means you could fly a kite in a thunderstorm and get energy from lighting? like we always wanted.

Fantastic as always

Robert, putting the website link in the description section would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Thank you Rob I guess I now can proceed with my antenna to soil radiant energy harvester.

Love your enthusiasm.

Thanx for realizing that people see things from different perspectives let alone ways to see stuff

Always inspiring, thank you. love to see what its capabilities are.

Wow amazing never thought about that but its really exiting! Thanks Rob

brilliant mate ! this could get very usefull ! cant wait to see u use it on your free enery devices ! keep up the good work

Fractal is quickly becoming my most favourite word , rather more relevant than people may think ❤

oh the dots and the re-arranged schematic really helped , thank you for that.

Reallyy amazing Rob ❤

Neat! I see some battery trickle charge potential, pun intended. 🙂

This video makes me want to start a company building these. Inspiring design.

I remember pondering how to do this when studying A levels in 1990...finally lol. I was looking at an ioniser that had a load of capacitors and wondered if you could reverse the process... pity it exploded 😂

Thank you for making this video

I really want to encourage you to continue, because ... On a different channel there was a discussion about Fermi's paradox and the hypothesis put forward by SOME people was that one civilization using us all the raw materials (metals / fossil fuels / easily-accessible radioactives / He4 / etc) would PREVENT any successor civilization from developing. I disagree with that hypothesis because ... NECESSITY is the mother of invention and those civilizations will find a way. Which leads to the corollary - plenty is the father of inactivity. We haven't invented electrostatic science YET because ...WE DON'T NEED IT (YET). We found electromagnetism, steam, fossil fuels, etc first. Not a lot of motivation to look for more (the fossil fuel people are violently opposing us looking for more so they can stay RICH 😬). BUT ... any solution for harvesting environmental energy in a meaningful way will be HUGE. After all, that is what a PV panel does - harvest energy that was just lying around. Go outside on a sunny day and there is a kw/sq m to just pick up; it costs nothing once you have the pieces. I would say that it's better than 90% likely that there is something along this line in the electrostatic "arena" and THAT solution may be as world-changing as the PV panel (and possibly not as inconvenient). This isn't "perpetual motion" or "infinite energy", it's POTENTIALLY very similar to the "infinite energy" I get from a Renology panel.

You're onto something, most definitely. This is really exciting, it will be very interesting to see where you take this.

That's fantastic tech, good job with the explanation..

Robert, A Wonderful. Explanation !

Everything you just said is soooo above me, yet you can state its use where i get it🥳 Needless to say i saved this‼️‼️‼️‼️

25:40 Just in case it's useful to someone doing this with a large number, you can buy packs of 4-pin PWM PC-fan extension cables for not very much at all. These have the same colour wires as used here and breadboard-compatible wire fits neatly into the sockets on either end, if female-female, or you could solder diodes directly between pins on male connectors.

One fly in the ointment, the diodes in the first stage need to handle 1/3 of the charging voltage, dropping to 2/9 for the second stage so the top level stages are going to need some honking great high voltage diodes or diode stacks

🐔 📸 Coat a Mylar balloon with graphene paint, connect up a 0.2 mm copper wire coated with graphene, float it up 200 m with helium. that should give you about 20,000 volts with extremely low amperage. That setup could be used to kick it down to 208 volts with a lot more amperage! Very useful indeed! 🐔 📸

This is extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I love it!

Wow great video and explanations

Awesome.

Brilliant ! TY

I love your idea :) please consider tips id like to tip videos like this, can be interesting to see it in large scale to hadne lightning

It's fun to think about a global network collecting and distributing electricity derived from lightning.

Very cool.

Thank you great

I like the idea.

Lovely lovely work! For sure. But as i watched video i kept expecting the end to show it working. I thought you might hook it up to a power supply and take a voltage reading out of the other end. Not to complain, i just thought it was heading that way and it would be lovely to see.

Fantastic video…

Fascinating!!! I wonder if one could print the fractal network using special inks... PS...you attire is getting much better

That's amazing

Nice one Rob.. I like this concept.. maybe you have just given me an idea...! If it works I will let you know.. All the best mate.. 😊

very interesting explanation, but i have a question, since voltage multipliers work with AC or switched DC and not with simple DC, i think that even a voltage down converter like this needs some form of AC input or switched DC. So it would be difficult to convert an output like the one coming out from an electrostatic machine in a switched DC, maybe you would need some kind of mechanical switch to apply high DC voltage inverting the polarity periodically, or chop it (less efficient) to supply the fractal converter.

EXCELLENT 👍🏽

The only issue I see with this, is that the high voltage is always sitting on 3 diodes in serial connection. Therefore their reverse voltage treshold (zener voltage) has to be at least 1/2 of the HV input. The current and voltage dynamics during charge would be really interesting to see. For sort period of time, the diodes are doing really crazy stuff, as the holes in PN junction are quite slow. If one diode is faster then other one, the full HV can be observed on any od these 3 diodes which could potentialy destroy it (like what ESD discharge does in some cases). I think the HV rectifiers are already addressing this issue when you try to serial connect them to increase the "reverse voltage protection". Or am I wrong?

Thank you for explaining an interesting idea simply. I'm wondering about the capacitor specifications: am I right to assume the voltage across each capacitor is proportional to the overall voltage divided by the number of capacitors - in which case the dielectric will have to withstand at least that voltage. Secondly does the schematic imply the capacitors should be matched. Thirdly would you envisage off the shelf capacitors (ie electrolytics) would suffice?

Awesome! How would you go about adapting this to harvest the energy from a dirigible since you don't have any ground line?

I wonder if there's a diode ink that can be used, allowing you to print some arrangement on a continuous roll of paper, and roll it back up to complete the contacts between segments.

Perhaps my American ears. I could not grasp that website mentioned. A link in the description maybe? Links help so much. Thank you Robert. I never miss.

This will probably work WONDERS on a HHO setup, gotta experiment! It never occurred to me to think of this added into the cct. Cheers Rob and thanks mate. It's PROBABLY the KEY.

Awesome presentation! Where may I find the Gerber file? Thank you for being such an inspiration!`

(WOW), another fantastic video Robert. Question. What size Capacitor works best for this circuit? Thanks for sharing.

Just had a vision of Emmet Brown and a Clock Tower lol.

That was an assume vid Rob. It sparks lots of ideas.

Thank you very much. So fantastic. Links can't read well, but anyway very good work SIR.

Wow, very interesting setup, are you going to make a follow up video? I would like to some results from testing.

Will you do a video on 3D printers? What do you use, for what purposes and give recommendations!

did you take into consideration in your circuit of the voltage drop per diode used

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it very much! One question - as the scenario is fractal, does that mean the voltages or currents drop or increase in an exponential way? If so, does that mean the voltage or current ratings of the capacitors and diodes, would have to be able to withstand the full HV or HI input or output directly? I'm trying to see the benefit of this network compared to a Cockroft-Walton multiplier, which is more of a stepped function to get high voltages. Thank you!

Jefimenko has a good book on electrostatic machines

Truly great video thanks. WIll watch again later. I would almost bet Mr Tesla himself did something like this and kept it away from public.

I seen your video on Stirling engines and that was really cool the thing I'm noticing as these people making hydrogen for their car it's running off of their alternator which makes the engine work harder which birds up any thing but I was thinking if you put a sterling motor running off your manifold of your - run car and then to make the hydrogen then you could run the hydrogen and then you wouldn't be using any energy except the wasted energy off to the thermostat does that sound right

The fractal network reminds me of the buildings surrounding the Great Pyramids. Could they have been different components making circuits performing different work/alcamy?

The website in question with all the electrostatic devices is indeed a gold mine and is the work of Antonio Queiroz who died last year.

Can't see that website address on my tiny phone screen. If you could put the addresses in your description it would help. Really fascinating stuff as always!

Do you have to allow for the capacitance in the diode PN junctions in the strings ?

He's very clever I like him 💥💯✌️

Sounds very promising cant wait to see the results This it for atmospheric energy? Or solid state nuclear battery?

This is why Rob Smith is God... Working 4th dimensional with fractals. 🤔 Absolutely Brilliant!

The start is mostly interesting to me, if you can divide voltage by 2 is it reasonable to say that the other way around you can double the output voltage by 2. If i connect 2 seperate 240v outlets to eacht capacitor does it make 500 volts combined? If so what are the losses, if any. I wanna upsample the voltage for an infrared PTC plastic sheet attached to a wall. I now have 45 degrees, wanna go up to at least 80 degrees. Is this the way to go? What should the capacitors at least be - 500 volt / 400 uF ?

Sorry, what type of diode is used did you mention? Does it matter? What would the input and output be could you give an example?

Very interesting, I've seen the step up ladder arrays of diodes and caps, but not such a scheme/concept for stepping down. As for efficiency, yes it's important, but for atmospheric alectricity perhaps not as important as getting the sharp points up into the air. Many 1800s photos have such sharp points, spikes and domes, and balls... perhaps we are rediscovering something here, a very interesting 'field' :)

With all those diodes it's surprising that the fractal works out to be more efficient. Presumable the total series Vf of the diodes in any charging path must be lower using a fractal configuration. It would be interesting to compare the diodes charge path in a Cockcroft multplier with the fractal equivalent. Isn't the absolute voltage of the high voltage limited by the PIV of the first three diodes in series? To increase the PIV, it is usual to put more diodes in series, which reduces the efficiency.

I L O V E your channel I just found!!!!

I'm fairly Newb to diodes, but might a tunnel diode work more efficiently? Might need a couple of other diodes to prevent a backflow..but more efficient?

I was totally gonna say you should definitely be putting this on a PCB…but you beat me to it yourself! 🤷🏾‍♂️🤣

Fascinating, but one thing is not clear to me: you showed the input of the circuit, but where is the output?

Do you have multiple channels? I'm sure I've subscribed more than once. Quick question, whatever happened to super capacitors? Elon Musk bought out a major manufacturer in USA, (2019?) and then, everything went quiet. I guess swapping a few hundred cells in a Tesla for super caps with 'instantaneous charging' from regenerative braking was a threat to profits ?

Can u use 2 12v batteries in series and use only 12v output like with diodes

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE PROVIDE THE JOBA FILES FOR THIS PCB! THIS IS A LONG AWAITED ANSWER TO AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM. Thanks for all your work!

There was some kids that built an atmospheric antenna recently at a university in England, they added a resister to the antenna and got it to power a low powered transmitter, they were successful in transmitting a signal... Voltage rectifiers can do the same thing but also I had another idea... If you charge up the positive statically with the negative connected to earth couldn't a transformer be added to the negative so as the spark jumps across the electrodes before hitting earth it will power up the transformer and convert the current into lower usable voltage... I like your idea though... I had a similar idea for charging batteries years back... If they're charged in parallel but then used in series via switching you would have access to incredible amounts of power. I made with cardboard glue and aluminium, a mechanical circuit that altered it's flow creating breaks and bridges as specific points...

Very useful science videos make a video for Energy-machine-of-t-henry-moray-zero-point...

Alternatively...is whats needed a charging cycle followed by a power cycle? Would it resemble kind of like a fuel powered system what other properties could be interduced Like water or addition of gas or solid.

I’ve been experimenting with this lately, atmospheric power, I have little currents obviously, I would try this fractal pattern see if I could get more current

DC transformers. The whole planet is a solar panel, but it will affect the WEATHER (not climate). Energy vampirism! Successful video material.

But how do they manage the issue of side fumbling?

also the advantage besides less parts in my design, is that it could well have been something Tesla was able to build with the technology that was available to him back in the day. just two mason jars and 3 coils (2 primary wound together and getting hooked up in reverse order and the 3rd one being calculated out to the exit voltage you wanted, also the voltage going in can be controlled by adjusting the grounding plate closer or further away from the electroscope foils too.

You have possibly just explained the circuitry of lighting passage from earth to atmosphere!! 🎉

Could a fractal capacitor like that 'absorb' a lightning hit and disperse the energy in harmless directions? Seen a lot of videos where sailboats have all their electronics blown out by direct lightning hits.