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I was sent this on a mailing list. I don't know if it works, but it sounds like a Countryside thing. I would be really interested in hearing what all you alternative power buffs think of this. Hoax or Halleluhah ?

Little Bit Farm Hello all, Just thought I would pass along this incredible piece of information. I received this from a friend and I was so astounded that I wanted to "Tell the world". How would you like to have a totally free system to generate your own back-up power that you can build for almost nothing? It costs nothing to maintain. The power it generates is pure and clean and there is an endless supply. I hope you are as impressed as I was with the following information. The ramifications for folks in the third world are incredible. Where has this information been all these years? Here is a reprint from the gentleman that provided the instructions. "What Wiley did at the rip old age of 12 or 13 was hook a sparkplug to the end of the wire and then run the ground end (where the threads are) into a 12 volt coil off an old A model, but any old coil will do. The bottom connector of the coil that used to go to the points is hooked to the positive side of the battery. The negative side of the battery is hooked to a good earth ground and a 1 to 3 KV capacitor (a few microfarad type like those found in the horizontal section of a television chassis) is hooked from ground back to the wire where the top of the sparkplug is connected. That's it! Nothing should be touching ground except the ground post of the battery. Wiley was using about 200 feet of insulated wire and it will completely charge a 12 volt deep cycle every 2 or 3 days! A thousand feet of wire will do it a lot quicker but the voltages approach lethal levels. What is behind this feat is that a very long wire acts like a capacitor and builds a charge on the wire. When a few thousand volts are reached, it will discharge by "sparking" across the sparkplug. The sparkplug delivers the charge to the coil that down-converts it to a few hundred volts and pulses the battery, kind of "squirting" a charge into it. The weather controls how much static electricity is in the air. Wind and super cold air seem to really make you think you can weld with this thing! I hooked a small neon bulb to a full wave loop on winter night when it was snowing with a high wind and the bulb burned continuously all night long! The higher you get the wire of the ground the better. The wire has to be completely insulated. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether you lay it out in a straight line or weave it back and forth. Length is the thing here, not size. Old phone wire, old coax from the cable company, anything that is insulated and long will do the job. I use my Ham radio antennas, as they are up and long already. This thing will weld the fillings in your teeth together if you are not careful with it! " I don't know about you, but I think this idea comes as close to FREE electricity as you can get. Give it a try............Skully

-- Little bit Farm (littlebit@calinet.com), April 30, 2000

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I don't know too much about electricity but it sounds really interesting. I'll ad another round tuit to my list.

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), May 01, 2000.

I don't know if that system works or not, but I do know that Nikola Tesla worked on a lot of devices to produce free electricity. There is an electric charge to everything, and he theorized that this charge could be "trapped" and used by everyone, free for the taking. When he died, the federal government seized his papers and they remain classified. There have been many others who have worked on free electricity. I have heard several programs on them.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), May 01, 2000.

Off to the scrap yard for an old coil! I have a book on all of Nikola Tesla's theories and tests but the verbage is incredibly technical and hard to read. I have read a few biographies on him and essentially he had figured out how to generate free electricity by sticking a frying pan into the ground. The man was destroyed by the money grubbers of the world. Thanks for the info, when I have some time I will post the results I get.

-- Doreen Davenport (livinginskin@yahoo.com), May 01, 2000.

I have to admit that I really don't understand this, but can see that it might be possible to collect and somehow utilize static electricity. But how would you control the current? I mean, so you didn't get surges and brown-outs?

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), May 01, 2000.

Kathleen: I think thats where the battery comes in. Once the battery is charged it would be treated like any other renewable system. Surges would be eliminated because the battery acts like a buffer,

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), May 01, 2000.


been a fan of Teslas for a long time i'll have to try this thanks

-- shaun cornish (shaun-terri@juno.com), May 02, 2000.

If you all want to have some fun go to http://www.google.com This is a great search engine. Type in Nikola Tesla. The amount of info on the web about this guy is incredible. After you puruse all that info Type in free electricity. There is a guy named Dennis Lee purporting to be marketing shares an a free electricity generator all over the U.S.. He sounds a bit like a snake oil salesman in that he freely admits he's never seen one of these work yet. The reason for going to google is that this search engine only brings up websites with the specific words in it that you imput. I find this to be a great resource as when I am looking for a topic I don't want all those things that come up that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for. Google helps me cut to the chase. Does anyone else here use it?

Little Bit Farm

-- Little bit Farm (littlebit@calinet.com), May 03, 2000.


Oh gosh, lets not get started on Dennis Lee. He's one of the biggest "smake oil" salesmen on the planet.

-- Les (lvaughn@suntransformer.com), May 04, 2000.

I use Google.com as my home page.

-- phil briggs (phillipbriggs@thenett.com), May 04, 2000.

I would be extremly suprised if this scheme (with the sparkplug and aerial wire) works. Even if it did I expect the first electrical storm would blow the guts out of the coil.

I am however quite prepared to believe that a neon tube could be lit from an aerial wire in fact I have considered doing the same with a conducting line on a kite just to show the amount of electricity in clear air on a fine sunny day.

-- John Hill (john@cnd.co.nz), January 04, 2001.



I can give you an explanation not only of what he did, but how it works.

It all started with a situation similiar to this;

http://www.esdjournal.com/static/shower/shower.html

After the problem was solved, I began experimenting with different methods of applying this effect (called the Electret effect), and eventually ended up being able to condition a small piece of sheet plastic so strongly that if would give you a strong electric jolt each time you picked it up.

Needless to say, I was intrigued and began looking for reports of where the Electret effect had been observed. One of the first articles I came across was one by an electrical engineer working for the manufacturer of electrical cable. It seems that the Electret effect is a major problem in the manufacturing of coaxial cable.

This problem was that by virtue of the processes used to make insulated wire, an unwanted measure of the Electret effect is created. Engineers work very hard to reduce the effect but have never been able to completely eliminate it.

As a result of this, virtually any insulated wire has a small electric field surrounding it, half of which attracts positively charged air molecules (called ions) and aerosols (charged particles). This field separates charges by forcing electrons (negative charge) to the outside and positive charges into the cables conductor.

Once these ions reach the cables surface they neutralize the negative charge that the electret effect has forced to the outside surface of the cable and leave the electric field unbalanced. (more positive charge inside that negative charge outside.) The electric field then pushes more negative charge to the outside of the cable and waits for more ions. The net result of all this is that a static high voltage charge is collected in the cable. Under most circumstances, the conductor in the cable is connected in a circuit and the current is absorbed without notice.

But if the conductor is connected to a spark plug (whose threads are grounded) it will produce an electric arc across the spark gap each time the voltage in the cable rises to the limit of the spark plug's gap. In some cases with a long piece of cable and some wind, the spark gap will arc almost continuously. I was once surprised by an arc 8 feet long.

A continuous arc or one 8 feet long is indicative of a substantial amount of power and so I began to look for ways to enhance it's collection and to put it to a beneficial use.

I have now learned how to maximize the electret effect, various means of increasing its ability to attract ions and finally how to condition high voltage static electricity so that it can be used to charge a battery.

This means that an ordinary piece of insulated wire can be strung out on a fence and used to generate enough power to provide a home owner with all he needs. It also means that it is possible to generate power in winds which have previously been considered worthless (3-4 mph).

-- Paul Clint (smithja@sisna.com), April 03, 2001.


Re " I was once surprised by an arc 8 feet long. " I would be surprised too, in fact a change of underclothes would have been in order.

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), April 03, 2001.

If anyone is considering powering their house by stretching a wire along a fence I suggest they try it in Australia. The dingo fence in Queensland is 3,437 miles long!

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), April 05, 2001.

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