Free Energy in Dr. Moray's backyard? > > IOW, this an open-ended transmission line (Line-To-Ground LC) > that might by happenstance hit a resonance point that could set up > some husky HF (Megahz?) oscillations off the ~26,000 coulomb > excess electron charge of the earth, that could do something strange > enough to vindicate Dr. Moray's 1909 - 1930s anachronistic > sojourn into solid state physics. > > IOW II, you have a gigaohm/meter internal resistance battery D.C.-wise > but, if RF oscillation sets in, it's a whole different ball game, and if.... >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric_current "Telluric currents are phenomena observed in the Earth's crust and mantle. In September of 1862, an experiment to specifically address Earth currents was carried out in the Munich Alps (Lamont, 1862). The currents are induced by changes in the outer part of the Earth's magnetic field, which are usually caused by interactions between the solar wind and the ionosphere. Utilization of these electromagnetic effects has been reported in the United States as far back as 1859. United States telegraph lines were operated by such natural induced currents (during geomagnetic disturbances). Tellurics also result from thunderstorms. Telluric currents flow in the surface layers of the earth. The electric potential on the Earth's surface can be measured at different points, enabling us to calculate the magnitudes and directions of the telluric currents and thence the Earth's conductance. Telluric currents will move between each half of the terrestrial globe at all times. Telluric currents! move equator-ward (daytime) and pole-ward (nighttime)." "The field varies in time and over the frequency range 0.001 to 5 Hz (Krasnogorskaja & Remizov, 1975). Electric potential gradients caused by telluric currents are of the order of 0.2 to 1000 volts per metre. (Krasnogorskaja and Remizov (1975); Vanjan (1975)). At any location, the current density is a direct function of the interhemispheric currents and their potential gradients. It has been estimated that telluric currents overall during twelve hours in one hemisphere are in range of 100 to 1000 amperes. This intensity of telluric currents is sufficient to drive the air movements that create atmospheric electricity, from the global fair weather charge accumulator to thunderstorm bases." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_battery "One of the earliest examples of an earth battery was built by Alexander Bain in 1841 in order to drive a prime mover. Bain buried plates of zinc and copper in the ground about one meter apart and used the resulting voltage, of about one volt, to operate a clock. Carl Friedrich Gauss, who had researched the Earth's magnetic field, and Karl A. von Steinheil, who built one of the first electric clocks and developed the idea of an "Earth return" or "ground return", had previously investigated such devices. Lord Kelvin developed a "sea battery" in the latter end of the 1800s." "Daniel Drawbaugh received U.S. Patent 211322 for an Earth battery for electric clocks (with several improvements in the art of Earth batteries). Another early patent was obtained by Emil Jahr U.S. Patent 690151 Method of utilizing electrical Earth currents). In 1875, James C. Bryan received U.S. Patent 160152 for his Earth Battery. In 1885, George Dieckmann, received US patent U.S. Patent 329724 for his Electric Earth battery. In 1898, Nathan Stubblefield received U.S. Patent 600457 for his electrolytic coil battery, which was a combination of an earth battery and a solenoid. The Earth battery, in general, generated power for early telegraph transmissions and formed part of a tuned circuit that amplified the signalling voltage over long distances."
