Posts Tagged ‘power’

Earth, air, metal and water make light. This earth battery produces 12V and was an experiment on increasing the amps with only a serial series and strong electrolyte. Next step is to make smaller and find the right parallel/serial series to produce grunt.

Just when we thought tree only provided shade in the heat of the sun and the little detail of providing oxygen, we now learn that tree actually produce electrical energy. While it is true that you are not going to be able to cancel the electrical companies service just yet, there is enough available to power a remote sensor.

I sure loves me some sun jars!  They incorporate several of my favorite things to mess around with:  LEDs, Solar panels, hot glue, man it’s all there and they look great to boot!

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to build your own!

You have most likely heard of a potato battery, a lemon battery, an earth battery. Well here we present a plant battery powered LED light.

Back in the late 1800′s almost all of the telegraphs in the United States and Europe ran off “Earth Batteries” Here we take a fresh new look at the earth battery and how you can use this free energy to power your small electrical gadgets.

A mud battery is made with a zinc or graphite anode (the positive terminal), buried in mud, and a cathode (negative terminal) in the seawater, both connected by a copper wire. Here we take a look at how your backyard could supply you with energy to light your garden.

A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas, the working fluid, at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.

Last year I found a United States Patent that showed how to collect ambient energy right from the air. I finally decided to build this curcuit just to see what it could do.

Here is a neat little project idea. I recently picked up a cheap china made desktop weather, clock, humidity unit. I found that if I attached one cheap solar panel from a junk garden lamp this thing would stay running just from the lights in the room sitting on my desktop.

A very powerful vawt I built in my basement out of some commonly used parts.