Free Energy

Step 7 You're done!?!

It may not look like much, but you just created a device that will obtain you free electricity! During my experiment using a 560uF capacitor it took about an hour to get to .08 volts. Not bad considering the size of the panel and how low it is. Later I got after several hours 1/3 of a volt, exciting!

Comments

[HybridTech]

The concept is right, but the why is a little off. At 2000 feet elevation, in the ionosphere, there is a TON of static electricity. Anyone who lives in the mountains in winter time gets a daily dose of light switch shocks! What Tesla showed is a way to gather the static charge, charge the capacitor, and use it. HAM radio stations use this technique in the mountains on a much larger scale. Check out this link Free Electricity

[Luziviech]

this link even solves the question of why it doesn't work in winter, when snow falls: The content says, that it works better, when weather's becoming worse, which, in common, means rain - and rain means a raise of humidity. Snow in contrast sucks humidity from environ air which, evidentially, means lesser conduction...

[BeanahVulgaris]

Thank you for adding that part about the ionosphere. This is a fact that scientific research is almost totally neglecting. It is also now part of the US military's earth property. This is because they are now using over the horizon radar that reflects off the ionosphere once agitated by a microwave beam (i think its microwave they use). Tesla used a detector not unlike a simple crystal radio setup, that allowed him to sense the elctrostatic fluctuations in the atmosphere with respect to ground. He worked heavily with dipole interactions and found what NASA in modern day has proven with satalites and other forms of probes. There is a huge positive potential that bombards our upper atmosphere daily, hourly, weekly, monthly, etc. and will continue to charge our earth for eternity. He suggested using ion channels to make a transmission line from the earth to the ionosphere through some aparatus that could transmit and recieve power with resonant systems. MIT is only in 06 realizing a primitive step in Tesla's envisioned system. another way to think about it is in the description of coaxial cable.... except imagine the coaxial cable is a sphere with a closed outer surface and inner surface with a dielectric in between.

[me835]

I feel i must right this situation by pointing out that the Ionosphere is much further up than a mere 2000 feet. even 30000 feet is still within the Troposphere (lowest layer). beyond that, you have the stratosphere, and the ionosphere is somewhere above that. those shocks described above are the result of static charge built up from friction. the reason it happens to people up higher and during the winter is because the air is colder, and therefore drier. and this whole thing, while not a hoax (it is real), is highly inefficient, and therefore not practical. You wont be able to just take yourself off of the grid. this may, at best, be used to power a small appliance.

[BeanahVulgaris]

the simple fact is the earth is being charged and discharged through a form of charged ion flow from the sun to the earth.

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.

[skumar48]

sir,how can i get a practical circuit for harnessing this energy?im very interested to design an antenna

[blackchaos]

Have you considered hooking this rig up to a tesla coil, after it is initially finished, in order to boost its voltage?

[cody316]

have you ever wered anything with this? if so, how big of a capacitor and how much aluminum foil would i need for 460 volts? i want it to power an electric motor on a go cart... because wouldnt a go cart that you never have to put gas in be F$@%ing awesome!?!?!

[BeanahVulgaris]

Tesla's experiments showed that the capacity of the elevated terminal fluctuated, and readings approached about 20volts per meter with a metal sphere at colorado springs.

[BeanahVulgaris]

I have commented on a few other posts dealing with this, pls search "radiant energy" to find the other posts.

1st, i would like to find the description of the elevated terminal being insulated only on one side.... I believe it should be totally insulated.

This is similar to Tesla's experience with capacitor construction.
Tesla is assuming in his radiant energy experiments that the earth is a capacitor. Rightly so; verified by NASA. Look carefully at the construction of the second capacitor. Work through tesla's thought process in this patent, you'll see what i mean. He designed a better type of capacitor, and then had an epiphony on the earth capacitor and how to steal charge from it from inside the dielectric of the earth capacitor (think about it... its quite an interesting idea).

(patent no. 567818)
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=567818

Imagine that the elevated terminal thats fully insulated is like one metal side of the capacitor with a dielectric attached to it. The air is like an electrolytic side of the capacitor (holds a static charge). So thats cap 1. cap2 is the capacitor you have put in the circuit in this instructable.

Benjamin franklin and others believed that a pointed end of a lightning rod allowed the charge build up in ground potential with respect to sky potential to leak into the air as ions. What this did was in the presence of a large electric field, the rod would ionize the air and make a channeled path.

You do not want to ionize the air! It will steal all your energy! But you do want a displacement current.

visual setup: --) O--------||----@----|>
---) O-- This is cap1, the left side is the statically charged air.

---||--- This is cap 2, i highly suggest a capacitor around 50V or higher(for tolorance and quality) and atleast 1Farad. Maybe a capacitor bank is needed (this is so a large charge can be stored and stepped up in voltage though a transformer.

---@--- this is the circuit that contains a switching device, a coil and some amount of resistance. It is best if this circuit can be designed to operate in resonance for optimal performance. Tesla has many articles on this.

---|> ground connection. This terminal should be bare and electrically connected to the ground. This terminal should also be mechanically secured so that it "grips" the earth. I believe this is so it can react to internal vanderwaals contractions and rarefactions in the earth (dipole moment contractions that act like static waves passing through a point).

yes.... i just said longitudinal waves... Im sorry but so long as atoms exist, they will propagate longitudinal waves because they are small electromechanical oscillators

Another idea for an elevated terminal is a lightbulb with one wire going into it filled with a conductive fluid. The object here is to increase the surface area of the inslated conductor without allowing for pointy parts.... a very large insulated dome, ball, or plate are the optimal shapes.

Another idea for the elevated terminal, though a very dangerous one in the prescence of lightning, is a balloon with conductive (directly on the ballon) layer and a non conductive layer (sprayed onto the conductive layer after attaching a wire of some kind in some way). The ballon (if theres enough helium) will float to a higher elevation! You could try to use a conductive gas in the balloon and then some how corking the balloon with a wire going into the center of the balloon.... Just a thought.

Thank you for your time :)

[Jaycub]

Nikola Tesla's design had a transparent film over it.