"I feel like I am making history here"
Well then I guess I made history 30 years ago when I took Physics 11, along with several million other students that year. And for decades prior, and since. It's always nice to learn something yourself, from scratch, but you can't call it making history if it has been done the same way for generations.
By the way, this is not an "earth battery". You did not get better results when using wet soil than when using plain water. The common name for this is a simple electrochemical cell. Adding soil just makes your experiment dirty.
Not to ruin your fun, though! Carry on!
RE: Santa's little helper creates free energy just in time for Christmas! (how to charge infinite car batteries for free)
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Santa's little helper creates free energy just in time for Christmas! (how to charge infinite car batteries for free)
Hey buddy! Long time no see. Everything okay with you? I think I was pretty clear with my statement that I "felt" like I was making history which is quite obviously not the same as actually making history! Feelings can drive us forward or backward. And we get to choose whichever feelings we want ;)
I am confused however. If people are taught this at school why are they not now running their homes & businesses using free energy? I mean really, why would you spend one further moment paying over-priced electricity bills if you understood how to get electricity for free?
I don't get it. Perhaps you can help me find clarity here?
It's always nice to learn something yourself, from scratch! And then, it's sometimes useful to know the real history of that discovery, and what it ended up being called, so you can learn even more. I've had dozens of independent discoveries like this, and it's one of the best ways to learn. In fact, I often prefer it.
As for your question, why don't you go ahead and wire up your home and/or business with this free energy? Then you can discover the answer yourself, the best way. Once you get a refill on your solder, of course.
Happy discovering!
I find your answer leaving me unsatisfied.
If, as you say, millions of people know this info already, millions of people will have tried already what I am going to try. And you only have to look around you to see they did not succeed. So, what gives? I have already seen that voltage & amps can be increased indefinitely using these 'cells' (or whatever you want to call them) and from here we only need maths to calculate what we can do with our constant stream of free energy. Am grateful to @j85063 for helping me find the right maths of course, but now that I have understood this fully, I don't get what is the block between here and a bank of batteries which gets charged over-night to power a home?
You mentioned dozens of independent discoveries and I am wondering if you ever tried this particular experiment yourself?
Like I said, I did it in Physics 11, which for me was in 1990, along with millions of other students. It's required of anyone who takes physics, chemistry, and most general science courses. Your specific setup is called a galvanic cell, and I'm surprised your wife (who you say is educated/trained in this subject) could not fill you in, if you don't want to discover the answer to your own question yourself.
Unfortunately Sabrina's training has been largely forgotten. She didn't even believe this would work when I told her what I was doing! Hence my having to pick up her old educational books which were all in French so even harder for me to understand.
I checked your link and I see a whole bunch of reading and potentially further research just to understand what I am reading. It's like another language to someone who knows nothing about this! But I don't see any mention of using the earth between the cathode and anode in there?
I was hoping, if you knew the reason why this isn't going to work, that you might share it with me prior to the buying of a car battery and inverter? This little adventure has already cost me a fair bit (copper isn't cheap).
I rely on the experience of people like yourself & @j85063 at times like this and it doesn't seem in line with your character to let me go ahead with something knowing I am doomed to fail, without alerting me to what the stumbling block might be.
The answer is: it doesn't really last forever. The diodes are used up in the chemical reaction. You've created a rudimentary battery, just like a Duracell, which converts chemical energy into electric energy. It wears out and is not rechargeable. This information is available with a quick look on any search engine, but I guess you would rather read it from a fellow blogger. There are thousands of YouTube videos about it.
I'm not withholding information from you! If you're looking for further experiments to try, consider using distilled (100% pure) water instead of tapwater (or dirt). Also try adding table salt to your water. Also try baking soda or vinegar (to change the pH of the conductive solution).
Nothing wrong with trying to recharge a car battery this way. That's something I haven't done and would be interested in the results. Being able to solve a dead battery on the side of the road, with nothing but some water, wires, and pieces of 2 different kinds of metal, even if it's not "infinite", would be cool.
Absolutely! I can prove anything I like with a "quick look on any search engine". So your experience is always preferable.
Thank you for enlightening me. I feel much better now knowing the potential problem at the outset. Though I am confused a little by your words "used up" and keen now to see how a zinc plated bolt can be used up when placed in the soil inside a copper pipe? In time the answer will become apparent I suppose!
Hey, I think you will find my current post on electroculture interesting and potentially helpful in your garden. Would be interested to get your thoughts on that topic too!
Thanks again for the pointer here.
My experience is 30 years old, which is why I refer you to Wikipedia and YouTube for details.
The metals are dissolving into the water. It's not immediate so you wouldn't notice much in the short timeframe you're testing it for. Like I said, you've made a simple battery, much like a "coppertop" Duracell etc. They are not "infinite" as your title claims. You're also giving off various gases, some of them deadly like Cl2, and some flammable like H2, so be careful where you run your tests.
You keep mentioning soil, but as I keep saying, you're just making your rudimentary battery dirty. You might as well be adding orange food colouring, or broccoli juice, or eye of newt to the water. In fact, that would be preferrable because then you wouldn't have dirt all over the diodes.