Battery running an LED "forever"?

[oscarnine2]

So can this be scaled up to run a home or a car?

[islandfireballkill]

ha i have made a battery that makes current from wet cotton FOREVER

[danagol1985]

I think this is just the recovery of the battery.

However, it wont keep doing this forever!

at some point it will be completely exhausted.

But - powering a single led... a standard 9v PP3, would last months i guess.

[plengo]

correct!

[danagol1985]

Hehe, ive always been interested in electronics :)

I remember, it started when i was about 6. I always wondered how my toy police car created the light, and sounds. So i smashed it open, and was amazed by the array of components.

By the age of 10 I was using breadbord, capacitors, resistors, and led's.

Now 19 i occasionally create a PCB, by drwaing the tracks on copper clad board with an etch resist pen.

I guess some things that interest you stick for life!

[nikulp68]

@danagol1985 hey that's the same story of my life. But i'm 12.

[ddanvos68]

I have experimented with this and the battery is taking the energy from the electrolyte in it. Thats why you dont have to recharge it, But after a while it will exsaust all its energy and the battery will be a dud. Leave it shorted out for 3 weeks then post a video with something.

[plengo]

Yes I know, the Bedini effect. I have reproduced it. I have the SSG Bedini motor and it really happens and the most amazing once you do it (the cold boiling) that battery will charge super fast and hold more of "cold electricity or radiant" better than the old electricity (positive electricity).

[RockManAU]

Most people probably know that all batteries recover a LITTLE bit with time after a heavy load, But what you have here reminds me of an article about how a wet cell battery being charged with 'cold' electricity, continued to charge up even after being disconnected! From memory, it even continued to BUBBLE for over 45 minutes!