Earth Battery Dug In

Just a test how electrodes in suboptimal ground-conditions would behave.
I had to dig through world war 2 rubble of a bombed out building, so there is maybe even basements
under there.
But Bill reported that people had even better results sometimes in rocky ground.
I hope i can improve that to 2 Volts, feels nice to have 1-2 Volt of energy for free in the lab ;)

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Science & Technology

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• earth
• battery
• rocky
• ground
• electrodes
• copper
• steel

[BodkinsEnergy]

nice one

[VonGoetzi]

When I made my earth battery I used the cooper grounding rod from the house, and a galvinized pipe. It worked, but still needs a cap or a joule thief before it will run an LED.

(The old american telegraph was ran by this system)

I went to useing buckits of dirt because you can't run but one system in the ground, but you can have many buckets linked. A thought; diodes on each EB rod? maybe, I'll try that.

I was told a magnezeim fire starting block works best.

I wish you the Best of Luck!

[Pirate88179]

Nice work, I will pm you.

Bill

[overunitydotcom]

Hi,

what metals are you using ?

Copper and ? what other metal ?

So you get 918 MilliVolts of voltage there ?

How much short circuit current do you get ?

[moonreft]

Sounds like your in a rain forest.