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In this instructable I will teach you how to suck energy from this planet called earth, even I don't know exactly how it works, but it works, can't argue with results!
Sorry, no video will be added, where I live it's been snowing and it's producing terrible results. Right before it started snowing it produced a thrid of a volt in a couple of hours, now that it's snowing and that it's officially winter it's only charging up to 0.03 volts, which is terrible. If you know how to solve this problem then please comment!
THIS IS REAL, NOT A HOAX
Sorry, no video will be added, where I live it's been snowing and it's producing terrible results. Right before it started snowing it produced a thrid of a volt in a couple of hours, now that it's snowing and that it's officially winter it's only charging up to 0.03 volts, which is terrible. If you know how to solve this problem then please comment!
THIS IS REAL, NOT A HOAX
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This was invented by the ultimate genius of all time, Nikola Tesla. I'll basically try and crack it down to how I understand it, and how a normal person would understand it (mind you this is how I interpret many difference sources, what I'm saying may not be right)
The earth and it's atmosphere is basically a giant capacitor, when lightning strikes it discharges it. Tesla's device sucked power from that infinitely charging capacitor to charge a man made capacitor. By putting an electrode in the air and an electrode in the ground, you tap into these energy source to charge your own capacitor.
The earth and it's atmosphere is basically a giant capacitor, when lightning strikes it discharges it. Tesla's device sucked power from that infinitely charging capacitor to charge a man made capacitor. By putting an electrode in the air and an electrode in the ground, you tap into these energy source to charge your own capacitor.
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Tesla was able to pick up on this energy flow, he like many scientists at the time knew that if the sun was sending out only one charge, the energy would hit a cutoffpoint because as the sun threw off negative it would charge positive.
He knew that both positive and negative would have to be thrown off for any energy to be efficiently transmitted. The magnetosphere offers the solution. As a charged particle accellerates in a magentic field it starts to curl around the magnetic field. Positive curling and traveling one way along the field line, and negative curling and traveling the opposite. These charges are trapped at a certain point.
There is evidence that tesla was thinking about 2 different things (may turn out to be the same)...
1. He was thinking about using the ground as one plain of conductivity and the ionosphere as another plain, and setting up a standing wave between the two closed electrical surfaces. This is a method of global power transmission.
2. Tesla noticed that something was already setting up these standing waves and that a consistant dipole existed between the earth and the sky. Nasa experiments have shown this, research in australia and antarctica has taken measurements of the currents flowing from the sky to the earth and from north to south (old clocks were some times powered by sticking copper and zinc rods in the earth in a north south direction.
to answer [me835], There is a dipole setup between the surface of the earth and the sky, there are effects that enhance the capacitance of the dielectric between the conductive layers of the earth. When the air is dry, motion/friction/heat helps to build up a dipole between two objects.
In a sense of power, a small aparatus may only harness a small amount of power, however harnesses it as a high voltage. A transformer could step this down into a lower voltage with more current.
It is true that the closer you can get the air portion of the antenna to the ionosphere the more electric field you will feel from it, understand what you are doing is bringing the antenna which is influenced by ground potential to better feel the sky potential. Then the dipole felt from the earth is setup in the conductor/capacitor / ->->-> |-----II----[gnd]
| ->->-> (ionosphere with electric field shown)
|--- (conductive large metal surface with connection wire)
-II- (capacitor)
[gnd] (ground)
Then you make a paralell circuit that makes a connection through a load or a transformer when the voltage hits a certain point.
everything should be well insulated as the voltages getting picked up easily leak into the air. Also, the metal surface used as the air antenna should be covered in a thin insulation. Tesla used the idea of conductive gasses in single wire bulbs. The glass was the thin insulator, and the surface area of the conductor because its gas is huge! (a bulb with poor vaccume would work as well... but some kind of rarified gass is needed).
As to the question of how to reach the ionosphere for better conductivity with it, an ionchannel much like a step leader would probably work. This can be created by a teslacoil (if you dont cause the acctual discarge to happen). Many of these are not operated at the high frequencies tesla was attempting.
The high frequency coupled with a large conductive surface links the ground with the sky through a dipole-dipole interaction in the gasses (the dielectric medium)
it is a well known rule of thumb in electrical that the resistance of an insulator decreases with the increase of the frequency.
impedance = 1/ (2pi(Frequency)(Capacitance).
No current needs to really flow at very high voltages is the other phenomina.
10amps at 1 volt is the same (generally) power as 1amp at 10 volts.
Voltage x Amperage = watts.
so what about 1x106 volts with 1x10-5 amps?
Lighting systems benefit from this idea. High voltage high frequency is shown to be much more efficient than low voltage low frequency bulbs. Infact, bulbs excited by capacitive effects of the gas dont require fillaments and can last almost indefinately. (even old burned out florescent tubes do this...all you need is a partial vaccume).
i should probably stop there... pls comment as you see fit, this is a subject that needs to permiate.
fast voltage increasement but less energy storage
more the value of the capacitor = slower charging
slow voltage increasement but more energy storage
The 2 capacitor upgrade schematic drawn with MS Paint merely shows that a negative potential is allowed to come from the antenna and then enter the "lower" leg of the double diode circuit first where the potential can circulate in a counterclockwide fashion charging up both caps.
The double diode portion of the circuit creates (or would create) a sort of counterclockwise circulation of the potential if the caps did not absorb it first . . . . of course it still allows for juice to get off the 'merri-go-round" and travel to ground.
To make that circuit more efficient use ultra low loss diodes (low loss in the reverse leakage spec.). You can buy silicon diodes that have reverse loss in the picoamp and nanoamp range.
DC usually travels from cathode to anode.
Dr. T.H. Moray was a follower of Tesla and his devices in the 30's and 40's used radioactive materials to ionize the antenna diode and help start up a current flow.
Even though vacuum tubes are wasteful heating up the cathode or the heater to get thermionic emission of electrons streaming - - they still have advantages over solid state devices.
He once got 50 Kilowatts out of his device and powered several homes for a time.
Or another design:
p.s. you CAN buy uranium off amazon, find united nuclear....
thanks :Þ