What if you connect a coil between the antenna and the switch and switch it via a transistor at the resonant frequency of the coil? I think this should increase the output even more. Very interesting topic!

I find it fascinating to see projects build, rather than just be presented with a finished package.👍🐝🌞

What an extraordinary energy! I mean that energy you have in you.

Laser Saber channel has a working model hooked up to a mile long run of atmospheric electric collector

I find it amazing that i'm struggling to pay for my electric, yet it's all around me. I know 100 year ago they harnessed it better than we do now, and I know it's hidden knowledge. So excellent channel explaining the process and step by step. Thank You. keep up the good work.

To power the switch, you could copy a watch. Use a piezoelectric power source, operating at high hertz, to very quickly open and close the switch. Perhaps that’s a trick

Note to all: For any long term use in the USA, you should check with your local municipality: If you're in a county area, its more lax but if you're in residential I've seen limits as low as 10 feet from the roof. In non-res, I've seen 60 feet but there may be "registration" and use case requirments so there's that. But this is an AWESOME improvement to the idea.

Quick and dirty, but straight to the point Rob. Maybe altering the frequency and mark / space ratio of the switch using a simple 555 circuit to control a FET etc.

Add a wind switch ? maybe something connected to one of the flaps on the darwin turbie, or a thread connected to a tree branch that flutters in the wind?

wow that is really awesome! So cool! A MOSFET might be a good high frequency switch? would love to see more around this stuff Rob!

That's impressive, thanks for sharing 👏

This actually works, ive tried it with a mosfet connected between the antenna and ground, and a commmon voltage tripler and capacitor of course, the effect increaases greatly with frequency in jumps, some frequency ranges are better thatn others , ive built a new circuit with paralell coupled triplers and one antenna circuit per tripler now, very interesting, ive ordered really fast schottky diodes and a supercap or two, experiments will continue, we are not talking picowatts here any longer per sqm, maybe a10 meter high antenna 1sqm covered with activated carbon to capture more particles will make this even better

Excellent demonstration, really surprising result. Seemed to work better the faster the line switched. Awesome.

A YT video titled "Graphene/Graphite Atmospheric Electricity Collectors - Plus Horrific Hexacopter Crash!" uses graphene as the antenna. I think combining the two, increasing the cross sectional area the magnetic flux passes through and having a rapid self oscillating relay switch is going to be a viable solution for home generation because it works 24/7.

So awesome, cant wait to see where this can go. Have a wonderful day!

555 timer circuit springs to mind.

Great work Rob!

Oh the possibilities. This is awesomely intriguing!

Two or more antena with capacitors and cycle the transistors switching like pistons in engine so there is nearly always power flowing in.

Absolutely loved the video thanks for the great upload

I knew it! Thank you for this demonstration good sir 🎉😊

I was thinking of doing almost this same thing a while ago. I'm surprised it worked now I have to run the experiment because this gives me hope!!

Lasersaber had a video about atmospheric electricity a long time ago. The researchers he worked with were using antennas coated with graphite. It supposed to collect energy better than metallic ones.

Thanks for bringing these subjects, it will get people thinking. I will try this out my self. I have in the passed put an insulated plate in the air and charged a capacitor but did not have the switch, must try it soon. Thanks again

Only just came across your channel im glad i did, instant sub Much appreciated

Guys, what we're seeing is the voltage across the capacitor it's not the atmospheric voltage, what we are seeing is the incremental increase in voltage of the cap each times the circuit is switched - this is not the ambient voltage of the atmosphere, this is the resultant voltage of the cap after many cycles. I slowed down the video the Voltage and counted the voltage increments, they averaged about 17 mV per circuit switching. (These figures are rough estimates). It ranged from 169mV (at 4:07) to 941 mV (at 4:31) in total voltage spread. That's about 45 switches in 25 seconds with a total increase of about 772 mV, which is about 0.03088 Volts/second. That means it would take about 9 hours to charge up to a 1000 Volts. Now a 1000 Volts sounds it would make a lot of energy-right? The energy W measured in Joules that is stored in a capacitor is W = 1/2 C V^2 (where C is capacitance). Capacitance for different capacitors is often given in units of microFarads mF or nanoFarads nF (sorry I can't use Greek symbols here), so let's assume a high frequency capacitor of 1000 V and .33 uF W = 1/2 C V^2 = 0.5 * .33 * 10^-6 * 10^6 = 0.164 Joules That's not a lot of energy. So, the working voltage V(w) of this device is about 17 mV, with an energy of about 0.163 Joules, but what we need is the current 'I' to calculate the power P = V(w) * I , so we can figure out the Amp-Hours that could be generated. Perhaps-like me-you saw 941mV and thought 'Wow, that's significant!' , but in reality it's only generating 17 mV. This won't run my desktop computer on 20V, that would require over 1000 of these antennas that to work. Imagine if everyone had a 1000 antennas in their backyard they would block out the sun and more importantly the rotation of the Earth would slow down because we had increased the effective angular momentum of Yorkshire. Now yes, if left to it's own devices this (I'm calling it) "Atmospheric Ram Pump" might charge up your phone battery overnight, and I think this has potential (pun intended) for off grid battery generators like when you're hiking or sailing, but it's clearly not going to compete with a nuclear fusion generator.

thank you Robert 👍👍👍👍

i love to hear you cackle with excitement and pure EUREKA energy! learning alot from you, thank you!!

Lol as I watched the grounding and ungrounding of the antenna diagrams… all I could picture where people wearing insulated and uninsulated shoes. The way the E-smog would pass around or through the person depending on whether they were grounded or not.

Very promising Rob!

That's amazing 👏 great find

Excellent!😊

A very interesting video. Watching it reminded me of a novel I have in my library: "Siva" by Walt and Leigh Richmond published in 1967. The introduction covered an experimental idea called the "Solar Tap", to draw down atmospheric electricity for broadcast power.

Please download every video this man has ever put out.

I wish I could just tinker with things all day

A joule thief circuit may be an efficient and inexpensive way of replacing the switch with a solid state electronic way of taking care of that.

Let me say upfront, I have zero background in electronics. However, I’m very interested in this type of science. As you’ve mentioned several times, the amount of ambient electrical energy rises in lockstep with an increase in altitude. With this fact in mind, then I’d like to know why such structures as giant windmills, buildings, and/or radio antennas couldn’t also be installed with this technology to capture & store electricity? Things that make me go, ‘hmmm?’

Love it thanks ....

Now for the switch. Use a microswitch, and then an tube fan with bumps on the bottom so when the fan is turning in the wind it makes and breaks contact with the switch and wallah.

I had thought of using this same oscillation of atmospheric voltage from *a wire hanging BELOW a zeppelin* - for ambient power during flight.... thank you for reviving interest in a tiny yet historic form of power!

A power washer does the same thing. open the gun and we get a high burst then it settles down. With an electric circuit we just keep turning the power on and off and these burst accumulate and that accumulation is stored in a capacitor and released into a battery. The battery can then power a motor or light or the accumulated energy can power direct from the capacitor. We also want to accumulate power from both the ground and from the air, so the earth ground, the energy in the air and the pulsed kicks are our ticket to the promise land of free energy. Then there is the task of finding the optium frequency of the kicks and a few other tricks of the trade like frequency harmonics, ect.

Very interesting!

Excellent! What about sticking a transistor in for the switch?

Always love your videos they always get the wheels turning 😉

The trick with a motor is super simple: get the tiniest, lowest possible power draw motor you can get hold of, even a wind driven motor it you care, and just let it rotate an interrupted commutator, with almost literally zero friction, and there you have potentially a super efficient switching mechanism at any frequency you want, with very close to zero additional 'parasitic' losses on your system.

When I was building high power led drivers back in the day I came across a small pre made circuits that switched the incoming voltage at a very high rate of speed allowing you to vary the drive voltage via switching rather than burning off the extra power as heat. I bet that high frequency switch would really do something here.

Very cool Robert😊. I wonder if you put PWMS’ and 555 timer’s in line too if that may help.

I'm curious to see if a transistor could be used to do the switching and what effect it would have on the charge rate of the capacitor.

Went to click like but I already did. Love love love this video

Long ago there was a perpetual clock designed that used changes in atmospheric pressure to constantly rewind the mechanism. The same principle could be applied to generate electricity.

seriously cool & clever ! and luke's mustache is looking good, he oughta try a handlebar one with ends he can curl like the pringles guy.

I'll have to look at this closer when i have time, but I wonder if the extra energy is from variable capacitance in the switch and the work done in separating the contacts. In some ways like how an electrophorus can charge a capacitor repeatedly, Where Charge Q = voltage × capacitance and lifting a plate reduces the capacitance driving the voltage up but here discharges one way through the diode. If that is the mode of operation. You can just make a huge rotating variable capacitor. To act like an electrophorus, or electrostatic parallel plate voltage multiplier. Or a rotory radial electrostatic flux Lord Kelvin replenisher, or a simplified voss, and a whole host of electrostatic influencer machines. Sorry for the tangent. When I get a chance, I'll take a closer look at how and why this works to be sure.

I really hope that what you are indicating is true because if it is then I got to get myself a lot of antennas and transistors. A LOT!

That is exciting! 🤯

Prospectors say that gold is attractief to the electrostatic energy in dry washers.

Interesting video

In the early 1950's, my Father built me a crystal set radio, which picked up radio broadcasts with no input power! I used some old military headphones.

Can use a 555 timing IC to tailor the on-off-on switching times to maximize the amount of power collected. The 555 IC requires a 5 volt power source though to function.

That was really cool seeing the volts rise

I'd like to see about testing this with a two way switch and two antenna, see if it charges even faster.

Now use the strange engine and make the vibrating weight operate either a reed switch or cycle a switch.

Bolak, your thinking and logic would be correct sir! Resistance built within the process! Bingo!

Maybe a dumb question, but is this like harnessing back emf? When the switch is opened and closed repeatedly a surge in power is induced, I believe they call this flyback voltage, and the capacitor is collecting this. I saw experiments using multiple capacitors in series trying to harness back emf in a motor to make it more efficient. I don't know enough abut this to give an informed opinion so I ask questions.

They’ve been harnessing atmospheric energy for a long time now right in our faces. As I told you before. Pylons. AcDc

Year's ago when I first played with this I found that a simple full wave bridge rectifier a ground and no antenna pulls same voltage as a antenna that's when I figured out that 99% of atmospheric devices were just catching radio waves not atmospheric the switch to completely isolate the antenna from ground is absolutely nessasary

Am I the only one who thinks patents slow down the development of our world?

Thank you Rob! for another awesome example of out the box thinking and how it can lead us to find untapped resources to improve our day to day lives. I have a question. Now that we have established that there IS usable electricity in the atmosphere, why not use it in conjunction with RADIO Frequency Energy Harvesting at the same time? Like for example run the atmo motors via capacitors that can charge from the atmosphere as well as make use of Earths natural Resonating Frequency 7.83hertz (Schumann Resonance). A Hybrid Atmo/RF Harvester seems like a good way to get more usable power out. There are a few folks exploring the viability of harvesting Radio Frequency for battery free wearable devices and even things like motorized wheelchairs. What do you think?

Highly recommend looking into vacuum tubes from crystal radios. For switching purposes, it’s much more robust that can withstand high voltages with greater coefficient on frequency and amplitude when electric potential are being applied between the electrodes comparing to modern silicon transistors. Plus crystal radio antenna design like the spider web shape for example or miniaturised antenna from meta materials will greatly reduce the occupying space needed instead of sticking 100m wire above your roof . For anyone fascinated and wants go deeper into this subject. Research Thomas Henry Moray or the Moray valve. Where he used a non heated vacuum tube as a powerful switching mechanism to achieve greater output result.

It's exactly what plants use to determine what is up. A tree harvests an amazing amount when in a well insulated pot with a ground pad on bottom in soil with a insulaed wire going out to a ground rod if you connect dis connect that wire with a meter attached you will be quite surprised but even a plant in a plastic pot searches out a static ground it will find a way to connect to ground tiny lines of minerals will form on outside of your pot.🙂

A question, Rob: What is the input impedance of your DMM? Oh, and what are you using for the diode? With the cap (what value?) approaching 1VDC, and as you said, picoamps electrostatic source, the DMM is a non-trivial load, already. It's certainly an intriguing way to increase the available power (in short bursts, like for an IOT device.)

That's amazing something I've been talking about for years even wrote you about it this is manual over unity v over one , An overunity is based on a voltage doubler one source and v the switch.

Make the switch jump between two aerials.

OMG-OMG-OMG I can't wait to see it installed on the electrostatic motor!!!!!!!

More!!!

You might get more voltage by using mosfets for rectification . The voltage drop across a signal diode is .3 volts but MOSFETs or something along those lines can be set up to have no voltage drop or miniscule. Of course in this example the energy is tiny . The switching further requires an expenditure of energy .

Very interesting. There must be an electronic way of switching that doesn't use too much energy. Presumably there is an optimal rate of switching.

Could there be a sweet spot in the switching rate to achieve maximum electricity generation which begs the big question how fast is possibly achievable and beneficial.

Cool video, thanks. I'm wondering if you can use an electronic switch? There's a couple types on the market but I don't know what they're rated at and if an old type multivibrator circuit would have better parameters. 👍

I am thinking that with the right transistor, a joule-thief type arrangement could do the switching and then you aren't limited to a motor.

This explains why putting one end of a copper wire into the ground of your vegetable patch and the other on a high pole gives larger and higher yields.

Would love to see the switch incorporated into the motors rotation via a side plate/brush "trigger" !

AMAZING AS ALWAYS BOB!!! what about switching mecanicaly with wind and a fan so no electricity spend in a motor for it?

Quero ver mais desse sistema! Já tem videos novos ?

It would probably take more energy to run the switching circuitry than what you're gaining in efficiency, unless you can run it from wind or water movement.

Hey Rob, I love your videos! I dont know anything about anything, but what if you took your pulley system from 1860 and attach it to a series of antennas set up in a circle with the pulley rotating the switch around each of the antennas in order to use the same switch for all antennas to collect a larger amount of energy for the capacitor?

Try it with a crystal switch that switches a million times per second. The collapsing field causes spikes.

I sill think what you are looking for is an inside out magnetron anode that has one end of all the resonant chambers rotated by 10 - 22.25 degrees around the axis, and an output feed loop in each chamber. Use this as your Rotor in your corona/electrostatic motor and charge your ultra capacitors from the output feed loops. the rotation of the rotor will act as your switch every time the gap in the resonant chamber passes the antennae...

Definitely need to get that hooked up to a scope and take a look at the timing on the switching effect. If it's as fast as I would expect it to be..... that could be a ridiculously important patent. The limit on the speed of the switch with modern techniques is rather high......

would more tips on the antenna also help ?

Very interesting. :D

You'll never catch electricity while them grounded thunder wires are sticking around and the energy carrier towers too they're all grounded. You need to try far away in the open fields with a good deep grounding, and then you need a joule thief and a solid transmitting antenna with insulated bottom has to be pointy shape. Remember it works also as capacitor, electricity jumps from ground to atmosphere. Maybe oscillator needed too on high frequency. Then you need a harvester antenna and some way to oscillate and store it. Because it's actually a DC pulse but you need to convert it to AC to make it work. Try not to ground the harvester antenna.

is there a follow up to this project? improvement in the capacity charge?

Had to log into my other YT accounts to give this one a few extra likes :)

You should use the wind/grass blade you made to do the switching

Going to have to turn the sand wheel from your previous video into a switching device.

There is a tremendous and highly marginalized community digging up information on so-called Old World architecture, the domes and the use of mercury. for high-ish altutide induction technology. There is good reason to believe the electrostatic charge was significantly higher in the 1700s

Tesla's oscillator now has a major purpose thank you your videos are next level

There’s a lot of potential here, the sky is the limit.

I have perfected the switching mechanism long time ago, I just can't afford the AERIAL yet.

Very cool but I wished that you showed us the current as well as the voltage. If the current is still in the picoamp range then you don't have much of an increase to charge a super capacitor. Would take some time.