Wow, Robert! I service small yachts under 50 feet. This past season I noticed something about algae on fiberglass and aluminum hulls during yacht detail cleaning this past yachting season. The setting is on approximately the 33 parallel latitude in fresh lake water. Most of the vessels we perform maintenance on the bow and sterns are aligned close to magnetic North and South. When the port side of the units' face East the algae on that side of the hull can easily be wiped off after drying by my hand and the West side algae is very sticky and clingy and must be pressure washed off. Dry algae is less time consuming to remove then wet algae. Wet algae is like combing hair. Algae removal will increase speed as much as 32 kph. Your presentation jogged that this may be due to telluric currents, sun and or biological growth??? It's in my bucket list to investigate this further. Also, one of the interesting phenomena items concerning ground batteries is to cap the end facing down in the ground and cutting a 10 to 14-degree slit from the cap to about 12 mm from the top and face the slit North makes a notable current change. Facing the slit anode side South reduces the current however increases voltage. The galvanic flow of DC electrolysis naturally forms from anode to cathode as going from “north” to “south” respectively.

My wife asked me if I could fix her soil moisture tester that has two probes (copper and zinc, I presume) and a gauge. I looked all over for a battery and then realized that it was an earth battery.

The worms do it. They are miniature electric eels in reality.

Thanks. Surprised no mention of the Stubblefield coil which was invented by Nathaniel Stubblefield; his device was a generator but in order to get a patent, he had to label it an earth battery. He had interesting double coils with a capillary barrier between layers of coil. I'm with you on the fascination of these ideas. Apparantly, Stubblefield powered carbon arc lighting and engineered one of first known communication system through his earth generators. The patent is out there, and I've seen a few wonderful builds based on the details. Cheers!

Hello, thanks for this video, it reminds me of the experiments i did last year with 20,000 volts D.C. on an antenna system hung over a blueberry patch. The berries did in fact grow better and larger. Its called Electro culture farming heres some good reads: 1749 by Abbe Nollett, in the 1920s by Justin Christofleau, and 1940s by Viktor Schauberger.... Its a fascinating topic, and really has an effect.

Robert that was awesome my friend, the earth is just like the right hand rule in a way north to south for voltage and east to west for current, I might have butchered that analogy but, what I’m getting at is they are 90 degrees out of phase with each other in away 🤔✌️

As I sit here watching the rain out my window and my rust-red clay heavy soil, I wonder about the energy potential in my back garden.

You are the best Channel hands down!

U can tell a lot about a person by their multimeter. Lol well used.

You guys are on the verge of a world changing discovery 💡

Once I had to install an RCD in a house located on a separate plot. It was necessary, among other things, to correctly connect two grounding wires from electrodes in different places - one directly on the site, and the other somewhere on a power pole in the distance. Both ground electrodes are made of steel. The potential between these two grounds was sufficient to trip the RCD. I also connected the multimeter, but I don’t remember at all what it showed.

I've been learning about the global electric circuit, and the recent discoveries of things like elves and sprites, so I don't find it hard to credit the existence of teluric currents at all. Something that might have to do with generating them is the phenomenon of 'whistelers', the attenuated remnants of the braodband pulse of electromagnetic energy from lightning strikes sound like a descending whistle - in the audio spectrum - received by radio receivers. These pulses can form trains, where they travel along the Earth's magnetic field lines and reflect back along those field lines when they hit the surface of the Earth, or - rather - an attenuated and frequency shifted version of the pulse is reflected, and this happens over and over again, back and forth along those lines between both points on the globe where they intersect the surface (as many as forty times, apparently), losing energy, more in the lower frequencies than the upper, giving these 'whistler trains' their characteristic sound. My point is that at each reflection at the surface, that 'lost' energy is carrying on into the Earth along the field lines, as happens with any impedance mismatch in the termination of a transmission line. In this case the impedance difference between the "leaky dielectric" of the atmosphere and the Earth, quite literally at ground potential. If you put a broadband pulse of energy, say from a spark gap, down a length of coax that was shorted at the far end, you'd see the same effect. This effect is used to find shorts and measure things like vswr, it's called Time-Domain Reflectometry, or TDR.

Rob don't forget to try and use the tree as your carbon rod. Just find some sort of SS nail so you won't hurt it as much. 😊

Look what they applied for telegraphs in the US in the past Some of those earth batteries are still working today

Thank you Robert, I pondered this idea once or twice and mabey you can explain more. I was thinking of the effect of static electricity on pvc pipe by a faucet of running water. but if there is a stream or underground river flowing, would it electrically charged the ground around? the area.

I think it would be worth trying the same metal in different parts of the garden. Where I am the soil is quite dry but my thinking is that different soil compositions could make for a voltage difference. It will be tiny but it could be enough to run some very low power electronics.

Fascinating stuff! Something that you may not have thought of that may have relevance here ...... Electric! Yes I know, but the electric I am referring to is the electric supply network. Specifically every substation has a grid of earth electrodes sunk into the ground and connected by a "mat" giving an extremely good electrical connection to earth ..... and the other end of those earth rods is connected to the Neutral point in the transformer. This means that there will be varying spurious electrical paths through the body of earth carrying current generated by our own electrical distribution system. That will be AC in nature but there is an added complication of DC generated by the buried lead sheaths of system cables (many of them were put in in the 1930's) and the copper plating from the Earth rods in all the substations! There is also the electrical fields generated by the HV distribution system (pylons) which are easily strong enough to light a florescent tube should you stand under one of the active lines holding a tube upwards! Yet another complication could come from old telephony which used an earth as part of the path! I am unsure of how much this will affect experiments or indeed how they could be negated ........ or even used?

ah, yes -- "earth dirt" that diagram was definately not written by an alien

Fascinating! So the Lead acts as a capacitor? No-dig home gardening/cultivating , though a different subject, does also rely on the mycelial network for the transference of energy/nutrients.

literally to eat electricity, hat's something new for me!

I thought Robert you were about to re-connect the tubes of soil up again on the bench and re-test the voltages. This would have been an interesting comparison. Then maybe test them periodically over weeks to discover the sustainability/decline of voltage, and whether it varied at times of day and night or at other times of external influences. Also, whether they need water to reinvigorate them as they naturally dry. I also wonder if diodes would be needed when using individual voltage accumulators, to protect the bacterial threads limits in voltage carrying capacity, through the accumulated back voltage, as we connect more accumulators. So many thoughts begin to occur.

Great video as always - any clue on how you could store the energy? Capacitor?

I would be keen to see the orientation effect in more detail, are there other videos exploring this? We often think of earth's magnetic field as static but it can't be. Is it impacting the bacteria's electro-chemical 'orientation'? Would taking the cores & revolving/repositioning them have the same effect as different configurations of earth battery?

good 1 Robert

In your experimentation, what 2 materials have you found make the most power?

interesting topic, can you measure a voltage difference from a low elevation ground to a high elevation ground?

I'm guessing the lifetime of the electrodes is proportional to the current they produce. So they last long in the ground, because they produce almost no current.

Maybe you can use this tech for electroculture..

Nathan Stubblefield did it best. He used three different metals. Zinc, copper and steal. He traped the positive and negative also he used steal as the path and kept a neutral ground not negative. He used the positive and negative voltage by keeping them separate instead of not using the negative potential.

Woooow this video has taken a big turn... I'm thinking on fermentation liquid now... but as always thanks! You really move the electrons in my head jaja Also try this with the intention of repeling snails but it didn't work I will have to try again

My first view of this seems to be the earth acts as the ion exchange much like salt paper .however if this was happening there would be a degradation of voltage over time so that would need to be measured. If the voltage remains the same the question is how is it charging itself. I guess this is where the bacteria may come into play. What other mechanism could account for no loss of charge ( if this infact is observed )

Most life, biology, chemistry, electronics is based on electron flow. Everything around us (Inc ourselves), are based on Energy, and it's flow (E = MC2 to M = E/C2) this energy is vast, and quantum behaviour (the basis of everything) - Probability.

To tell if the effect is due to earth fields, use two identical electrodes If the effect is galvanic, there will not be a reading. I would use two plates, oriented north and south for maximum exposure.

thank you

Use a coil in the air for the positive and one in the e ground for negative and a rod for neutral. I would think different shaped coils would determine voltage or current gains.

I wonder what happens if we extract too much of those earth currents. Will it have a knock-on effect?

Now you are getting into the base ideas of Tesla . Which of course were correct. Consider the the electric properties contained between the earth and the atmosphere around it and the interaction between the two . Now you are getting into the " so called " free forever energy. Geeee...how can we tap into it ? :O) Thanks for the share. :O)

You should experimant with Piezo electric stone and hydro electric stone.

It's the same idea as in Canada and the Northern US where moss or algea grows on the North sides af the trees.

I have heard that the earth batteries were the power source for the telegraph in 19th century America. I am sure that is true or not!

ha ha ha ha ha ha - nice one! I thought that you were serious to begin with. Excellent parody of fake science and conspiracy nonsense. Keep up the good work.

What's that bird in the bush Robert

Sorry Rob, but as soon as you use two different metals and a electrolyte (in this case the Earth), then it's a galvanic cell and not a generator 😂

You could be called a "Thinkerer"!! Why have 2 titles?

.... but somehow can't afford a decent microphone

Non-permament because the magnet poles are about to shift

It really gets me the number of adverts on YT and FB for 'saving' power/heating your home for pennies using 'Earth electricity/ a small (usually USB) 'kinetic' heater that will heat your whole house in mins. Of course you and the people who watch this channel realize they are scams but many don't. Earth batteries have uses but not heating. As an aside some of my computers are so low power that it might actually be possible to run them from such a setup but perhaps the next generation. Worth a try with say a PI zero .

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