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  • hi my house is powered by the forest in my backyard

  • lets hook a bunch of trees in series!! more voltage!!

  • works the same with a copper spike in the ground

  • Voltage is useless... how many amps does that tree put out?

  • I take it the current is so weak? you can run a clock off nails in a potato they sell those

  • the matrix, harvesting souls for electricity, not planning humans i hope(n/a),you are your harvest I hope though,

  • Maybe this is the future! :-)

  • yeah, tax that tree some more. why not tap a cow?

  • 1000 uF is the same as 1m farad

  • Here in Brasil we have a very alcaline plant,, and i did some tests with copper and zinc,, and the plant could generate 2,7 voltz. I extracted some sap and then I made some experiences,, the sap is very very alcaline and i made a "small " battery to light up a LED for 190 minutes.

  • The siren in the background is from the white men who are after you.

  • Torturing a tree with electroshocks is rude.

  • i came up with an idea that dosent seem to be on here, but its based off a acient technology. it still uses materials, but they will last for a longgggg time. it involves types of rock, water, and metals and earth. if all goes well i might put it on youtube. i hope for the best though i have no money, but i will find a way. otherwise the best free energy producing thing would be magnets and how you build the device.

  • i came up with an idea that dosent seem to be on here, but its based off a acient technology. it still uses materials, but they will last for a longgggg time. it involves types of rock, water, and metals and earth. if all goes well i might put it on youtube. i hope for the best though i have no money, but i will find a way. otherwise the best free energy producing thing would be magnets and how you build the device.

  • lemon juice copper and a nail would give better results.... oh boy, free micro amps... shaking my head in disbelief....

  • Are they copper nails in the tree, if so, hope you realise that copper KILLS TREE'S, I know this cause it's one of the old school ways to kill a tree, please remove them after use. Thanks for the video, from I.B Treehugger lol

  • Theres an usb port in tree

  • Put 2 dissimilar metals in any non-neutral solution (iron in tree sap for example & a different kind of iron in mud/damp earth) and you get an electrochemical reaction. Look up Standard Reduction Potentials or redox reactions and you can calculate the voltage 2 metals will produce under standard conditions.

  • try lemon fruit and you'll generate more power. actually, that is just one of the experiments from a primary school 

  • I made a tornado powered motor. Works great.

  • The siren is from silent hill!

  • 15 dollar shovel, penny nails, 5 dollar caps,

    20 dollars for i forgot the numbers, half a volt no current,

    0*.05=0watts of power*1000 hours = 0 kilowatthours

    if we powered the untied states this way, no power for 20 dollars

    infinity defiend to be 1/0

    20/0 = 20 infinity dollars per kilowatt hour

    all our electric bills would be an infinite amout of money, hmm, you may be on to something!

  • nuclear siren?????

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  • I'm not even going to explain why this video is dumb... all you get is the before sentence!

  • so, can i watch tv in a cave or not?

  • @Thys93 i dun think caves got cable :D or reception ._.

  • @Thys93 lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • It's simply the tree sap reacting with metal. It's called a battery. And there are more efficient ways of making one.

  • @4G3NTanon Like what?

  • whats up with people sticking - what? - zinc and copper into things going WOOHOO! FREE ENERGY!!!!11

    how stupid.

  • Lol energy police? FYI that's a tornado. 

  • @Jaxurcar1 No shit.

  • And again we owned nature

  • It's the tree Matrix.

  • That is cool. can you check out The new and Improved Generator.

  • @AudioSuper yes, i am mad because you are stupid. you would be hard pressed to get enough power out of a trees to keep a lightbulb going let alone replace power companies.

  • @rawheas Hello.. hello did you listen to what I actually said.. ???? it is a scam..

  • @josephdupont yes i did listen to what you said in ur video... where did u mention anything about a scam? i mean u mentioned it didn't work very well which isn't surprising...

  • That's nice. Only problem is, the nails will corrode over a time.

    However if you use platinum wire as electrodes - one wire in the tree and one in the earth - the tree battery can work for as long as the tree is alive. Even thousands of years if the tree gets that old.

    The downside is that the voltage is very low.

  • Oh my god that tree is dying???@@@ the whore-er My god what if you had nails driven into your skin!?!!I!)!!? Just kidding Fuck Tree Huggers

  • does this work on weed?

    get it? trees.

    hahaha i am too funny.

  • O Jesus, son of Mary! Is thy Lord able to send down for us a table spread with food from heaven

    ow (DOT) ly/41YZ6

  • that was the air-attack siren

  • Poor tree

  • was that a siren on 0:56 ?

  • Will this work on potted plants inside the house?

  • nobody cares about volts,

    its amp which we need.

    even the potential between earth and mountain tops is very very high.

    but don't try it, or u get lightning.

  • your right.. you could make a mechanical device to do this continually.

    essentially a drum with contacts on it. taking inputs from many trees. then combining them to a master capacitor and a battery. but how much energy would it take to turn the motor? some solar motors with a rubber band belt take little power.. but the amount of power from trees appears to be limited from my little experiments.

    next time... i there is a next time i will make sure all the metal is the same .

  • charge up a bunch of capacitors while they are in parallel, then put them all in series and get a high voltage for a short time!

  • with the shovel you have created electricity the corrosion proses generates electricity Corrosion is a natural process. Most metals, in their natural state (ores) are combined with other elements such as oxygen to form stable compounds. The ores are refined , these metals gradually revert to their original oxidized state known as the corrosion process.and this proses generates electricity aka your shovel in the ground is rusting

  • Well my PC draws about 390 watts.... don't think I can get that much out of a tree :-p

  • thats a tornado siren, better fucking run for the basement

  • put a nail in your mouth and another one in your ASS and lets see how many volts it is...

  • A chemical reaction

  • whats the point of the capacitors? from what i get it cant be that different from a earth battery which is your basic electrochemistry. why the capcitors? the trees arent generating AC are they?

  • energy police... ROFL

  • the energy come from the metals you put on the tree, they get oxidized, like if you burn them, like a lemon or potatoe battery

  • Essentially if you find a good acidic plant, tape a few dozen of them and ground to earth you could then produce a voltage efficient enough to run LED lighting or low pressure fan powered circulation systems.

    Best of all you could keep the plants alive and use them year round in the proper climate. Keep everything nice and moist with highly conductive well water and you could probably eliminate grid power completely from your home if you switched to LED's.

  • @JonDeth I wish.. have you tried anything of this nature?

    Try it first and then get back to us.. But thanks for your thoughts.

  • @josephdupont I'm well educated enough to know it would work, I'm an electronics technician and will probably get an electronical engineering degree soon. You're just using an alkaline and an acid to charge 6 batteries.

    If scaled properly and tapped to the right sources, you could produce an efficient amount of current to power SOMETHING. Just not a lot of that something. It's like the Baghdad Battery. Scale it up to a vase 6x2 ft..

    Suddenly you can power a light source for months.

  • LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the energy police, hahah ha ah ha hah ah ha , i almost pissed my pants that was soooooooo funny, great research though

  • air raid siren at 1:04

    

  • In series...you would be producing 3,6 volts from a tree....not bad...I know that all living things have electromagnetic fields including humans....I am going to test this out and do acouple variations of my own and will let you know how they turned out...Nice post....And to the retard talking about harming trees....Are you Freaking serious man? I bet you don't care when you sit on your wooden chair at your dinner table....lol stfu this is quite cool...I will check it out for myself

  • @MrCerebro11

    Let me know how you make out.

    try different heights up and down the trunk

    try taps at the optimum height at different directions n s e w

    I never thought about running long ground wires to other tree bases .. say

    100+ feet away.

    hmmm .long shot, but if you could get that voltage to 1.50 volts you could run a mp3 player..

  • @MrCerebro11

    any tests yet?

  • @josephdupont Well I have been collecting the supplies to create my own experiment. And I decided to use non electrolytic Capacitors ; because, Nonelectrolytic are used for lower relative values of capacitance. Mainly since in your video you said you had only .6 volts. And on that topic Capacitors in series decrease the total capacitance of the circuit since capacitors in series are treated like resistors in parallel. This meaning that Capacitors in (couldnt paste it all its is 3 comments)

  • @MrCerebro11 parallel while have a longer charge time , but will be seen as a bigger capacitor to the source voltage(tree). When 6 1000 micro farad capacitors are linked in series the charge time might be less ;however, the total capacitance that can be obtained is 166.7 micro Farads. And when linked in Parallel is 6 milli farads. SO to produce the most voltage possible they need to be linked in parallel..

  • @MrCerebro11 I am a electronic engineer student at Embry Riddle ,

    so I am just beginngin to understand this all. However

    I am greatly interested in it, and as soon as I acquire the supplies I will test out the capacitors in parallel.

  • @MrCerebro11 One last thing be very careful with those capacitors. Electrolytic capacitors are polar sensitive. If they are shorted out or connected backwards they will explode lol.....be careful

  • We should all play more

  • yes!! another good idea how to change the world!!!

  • I ordered a multi meter on ebay the otherday and cant wait for it to get here.

  • @Hollrobb u can buy it anywhere for less than $10

  • @meex88hiphop Thanks but i got my meter about 3 days after i posted my comment here. It has came in very handy and i cant believe i hadnt got one long ago..

    Thanks again and have a nice day,Rob

  • 0:57 lol was there a tornado headed your way?

  • how much power does it produce? is the idea to charge a battery? coconut trees have a super high acidity content and nothing can kill'em except for lightning,i would love to try it,can you pls make a video on what to do next, great info guys, dont' mind

    the haters and tree huggers,nature is here to serve us,we just dont know how to use common sense sometimes, nails don't harm trees,

  • hey you should think real hard so you could spark up electric signals in your brain, then have your friend real quickly ram a nail into your skull and measure how much power you get

  • @bigvic22sti Yes!!!! Free brain energy. You could fill a room with people doing complex math problems and then wire all the brains together and power your house.

  • 1:07

    HA

    HA

    HAR

  • you made a basic earth magnet. you can do this from a paperclip, copper wire and wet papertowel.

  • @ShawnHydedotcom I don't think so.

    why would the voltage  maximize at a specific distance from the ground in the tree.

    I

  • yes its microfarads and for your information , capacitors in series divide and in parallel add

  • You know that in many cases Trees represent a plus CO2 factor.

    But then again CO2 self moderates. High CO2 more plant growth.

  • OK, LETS PLANT TREE .....

  • Absolutely rediculous, you're just using the tree as an electrolyte and the minuscule amount of energy is coming from the nails made of dissimilar metals. That is not free energy!!! On top of that you're harming perfectly healthy trees, that sounds good for the environment...

  • @yellowmetalcyborg

    If you do a search on this issue you will see that the effect is recognized.

    All I wanted to see is if it was worth doing.. and it does not appear worth doing.

    So I'm killing trees by driving a nail into them???? really.

  • @josephdupont I am well aware of the fact that the effect is well recognized. It was used to power telegraph lines. At least you could have used dirt as the electrolyte instead of using trees.

  • @josephdupont

    I too must admit that this video is funny, but at least they are trying something. I remember this phase of my life, between 14 to 28 years old, where I tested ideas like crazy. Likewise, I admire people who use their brain to figure out the world outside of traditional education because it spawns creativity (I wish more people could be like them). 

  • @josephdupont

    After years of imagination and self-studies, it would be beneficial for these individuals to return to traditional education with their own findings of this world. And yes dude, you did hurt the trees but for a good cause. Tree-huggers be quiet before I let people know you kill plants and eat them (it'll be our secret! Shhh...)

  • @yellowmetalcyborg "your harming perfectly healthy trees" okay I think the massive tree doesnt even recognize the nail in it at all. Its probably perfectly okay for the enviroment because...oh the nail came from the enviroment? yeaaaa Tree's are the toughest things on earth i doubt a tree will be harmed IN ANY WAY from a nail

  • u killing the tree!!!!!

    it doesent worth it!

  • you are hilarious guy

  • ion flow could kill the tree

  • Have you ever tried this on a wooden power line pole?

  • Interesting question.. I might try it.. However my pole has guy wires on it.

    which will ground it from the top.

    Even if there were not 12,000 volts up top.. it would negate things.. I think.

  • you know you can get more power out of potato's

    it works because the pH balance of a tree and the dirt is different....

  • uf-milli farads

  • next thing you see is homeless people putting nails in trees to they can get power for their radio then someone going for a jog and gets coat hanged by wires lol

  • @then3rdboy You never know.. but don't hold your breath.

  • @josephdupont I hope someone records it and puts it on youtube if it does happen

  • why dont we just use solar farms in space and send the power down to a electric grid using micro waves and send it out to towns that ways your not killing trees or other stuff on earth and yet it's still green

  • @97MindFreak

    Yes that is what we need.. more micro wave beaming our brains.l we have enough brain tumors aleady.. that is why I minimize my use of cell phones when ever possible.

  • @chriscarneywatch Haha. It has been proven that Cell Phones do not produce brian tumors.

  • Shut all of the Power Plants and wind Turbines down-EUREKA these guys have find our unlimited Power source! PLELEEEZE!,how about wasting your time on something more productive.

  • You are so very sweet. I did these experiments because some con man was trying to get federal funding on a project.

    I get my data and shut him down.

    So what the F have you done for society.

    I learned something..I learned that it is not practical.. but it works.

  • @josephdupont

    Legendary comment..I started with trees too. If you are trying to draw energy from nature what better place to start. RP2012

  • Idiots who think you can get free power

    Congradulations you've found a way to consume the tree's juice/electrolytes, inturn killing it

  • what is this siren signal starting at 0:56 ? ABC-ALERT ???

  • The energy Police ! :)

    Getting free energy without paying taxes on it is illegal.

  • the warning siren you hear in the background is a whelen siren.

  • No need to go to greenlivingitup . com for those plans. I'll give them to anyone for free. They are free if you search for them.

  • @ greenlivingitup . com it shows how to build a free energy device with magnets

  • you have use different kind of metal this is only normaly volta's battery

  • Sorry guys but this is just electrolisys between the metals you use in the experiment. Leave the trees alone, recycling and burning wood from the trees gives more energy than you get here!!!!!

  • I don't think so . There is an optimum distance above the ground for max voltage. if what you were saying was true I think the capacitor would charge up much faster.

  • If you hooked up 24 trees in series you could charge a 1ah 12 volt battery in two days and hook up a 50watt power inverter

    and power a 25watt light bulb for a 1min.

    If you hook up 9600 trees in sets of 24 you could charge 4 100ah 12 volt batterys

    and hook up a 5000watt inverter and

    power a house for FREE

  • unfortunately you can't put the trees in series. they all have a common ground.

    the only thing you can do and charge a drump of capacitors in parralell and then put the capacitors in series to do work.

  • then what would happen to the trees?

  • All this "free" stuff is so much more expensive than just using the power company, and a lot more work. I don't see an upside except it probably gets a lot of dumb asses to watch the video's : )

    You would do better getting a wind turbine, and talking into it. You could run hydro electric off the sewer water coming outa your house. You could walk around in socks and spark a battery with the static electricity to charge it. You could put a wave motion generator on a water bed so when you had ...

  • Maybe the static energy in the sky gathering in the branches and leaves

    and trying to ground out.

    wood has so much resistance..

    so we are tapping this energy.. my guess.

  • How does it work? Is it that the 'electrolytic fluid' in the tree's cell sap generates a small current via the electrode potentials (i.e. between the nails in the tree and the shovel clipped earth) that is rectified and amplified (via the capacitors) and read by the ammeter / voltmeter? I aint know; it's just a guess or am I wrong? Maybe this might be the 'green electricity' of the future when more acidic (?) trees are used?

  • This might be a variant of the wet ground/dry ground principle.

  • It's a living battery... o.0"

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    now only if we could make it generate large amounts of power.

  • OMG stop pinching nails into the trees ,try a lemon or potato and learn something about electricity!!! And very very good idea to nail all trees of the whole world for lousy 36kW :)

  • lemon batteries use the destruction of metal to produce electricity.. I don't think too much metal is lost getting meager amounts of electricy from trees.

    Like I said it appears not to be practical.

    It might have limited applications in low tec areas of the world with no resources.

  • Is there a place where energy can't be absorbed from?

  • there is energy all around us, but the return on the investment to capture it is

    too much.

    They want to send a probe to Mars to produce hydrogen and oxygen before we send men. that way the fuel for the return trip will already be there and the savings woujld be amazing.

    If you had a cabin you did not use for most of the year, maybe, maybe such tree power might beable to store presurized hydrogen.

  • Yes, perhaps...

  • Hardly enough current to run the high impedance moving coil meter.You would need a forest to run a torch globe.

  • Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Keep it up anyway!!!

  • Lol an analog multimeter? wow

  • LOL the people that have been killing environment without second thought never knew about this did they? I wonder if affects the tree in any large way.

  • 1052 PM BLACKSBURG VA USA >>

    WOW! In my thirty years of watching this stuff this has got to be the coolest video thus far! I bet those trees are really annoyed. However, just wait til someone takes a chainsaw to em! There is only one error I see so far if I am not mistaken. It appears that they think that putting the capacitors in series will increase the voltage. It won't. Forget the voltage, just collect the electrons dudes! I'll send you some super low leakage Gold Caps for your experiment.

  • who cares

  • It was a joke...

  • FREE POWER ?? a nail COST MONEY !!! did you ever thought that in the process of OXIDE-REDUCTION(involved in every battery) the zinc (Zn) becames Zn^+2 ??..it COMSUMES itself...so...I think you know what this means...

    we need to CHANGE NAILS every time the "battery" discharge..and also..all the NUTRIENTS a tree needs to LIVE will ALL BE CHANGED due to the effect of the oxide-reduction..so..they will be OTHER ELEMENTS and they will probably lead the tree to a slow death...due to YOUR POISONING !!

  • Good thought.. but It does not matter what kind of nail you use. For what ever the reason is.. it is pretty consistant. Also the potential does not amount to enough to harvest any serious power..

  • you're wrong on one point...one CAN get some power ..problem is..2 nails (for example) = 0.5 Volts @( for example) 5mA ..so 4 nails (series) = 1 volt@10 mA..

    now..

    to get the equivalent of a car battery we need

    40 nails =12volt@10 mA

    now..to get more amperes..we need other layers of nails,each with 40 of them..in parallel..results ? 40*100(layers) = 1 Ampere..and here it is !! your 12V 1A battery !! now connect it in parallel to 99 trees,each with your 4KG (if not more..) battery...

    ridiculous

  • I made an error...in the first part I multiplied the amperes...sorry..I didn't had to...just suppose it was always 10ma from the start...

    btw...that' just to prove the point that you'll need more than 100 trees full of nails to run your car stereo for 10 hours...(supposing a constant consume of 120 watts by it )

  • they all go to ground so how do you get them in series?

    actually the question is.. could you use potted plants.. don't know.

  • Great!

  • i am call to "green peace" :)

  • this is so funny, You guys basically picked this butt ugly tree and pounded nails into it just for an excuse to make free energy.

  • So what experiments have you done?

    I heard about this concept in the news.

    and by simple experiments I debunked it. what is so funny about that?

  • We detected DC not AC.

    However if you drive two stakes in the ground you will pick up the 60 cycle hum and ac current from a difference in ground potential.

    Depending on where you live and the power loads such differentials could be harvested

    and utilized. I doubt that cosmic forces are in play here.. but who knows.. they say that the ice ages are caused by planetary allignments.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    60 CYCLE HUM FROM THE GROUND AND A TREE?

    Wow. Do you even know why you get 60Hz "ground" loops?

    Thanks for the laugh.

  • to get 60 cycle hum is from the power lines near by. you drive copper pipes in the ground at the various parts of the yard.

    you will get different voltages and the voltage will vary depending on the time of the day.

  • well...you forgot that INDUCTED ELECTRICITY will cause a LOAD on the POWER LINE...this load is REGISTERED in the power line counter by your energy supplier...and you may be in serious problems if the find you....cause such devices are ILLEGAL in the U.S ....and dude....an italian is talking................

  • emm...actually ice ages may also be caused by volcanoes....

  • You will be surprised that the voltage potentials are alternating currents which are connected to saturn and other planetary motions :]

    the CPS depend on certain planetary alignments as well , as far as a source of energy goes this would be destructive :\

  • your write

  • what was the siren for?

  • i think someone got out of priston thats why it sounds... meybe... i dunno dont ask me i dunno :P

  • lol that could be why!

  • *prison

  • "Energy police" LOL

    I wish that were only a joke!

  • Galvanic effect *or* stray voltage effect ? Go into the woods as far from houses and overhead lines and repeat this and see :)

  • LOL, "the shovel is the ground"

  • so about 100,000 tree will keep a small apartment going with electricity?

  • and you need a lot of nails to rust !

  • 100 trees = 5 kWy.

    (sry guys but it's funny)

    What do earth batteries give?

  • what was that siren for

  • like the lemon! :D

  • Try connecting the leads to the battery terminal on a disposable camera. The circuit in the camera will charge a cap. then can be discharge through the flash, at the push of a button.