Drone Harvesting INVISIBLE High Voltage From The Sky ⚡

Months of drone flights culminated in what can only be described as a remarkable feat in physics. I managed to successfully siphon energy directly out of the atmosphere. Thank you to @ElectroBOOM and @Uheuhe (Jordan) for your assistance on this project! #Drone #Energy #Highvoltage
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I Collected Atmospheric Electricity With A Drone
Drone Harvesting High Voltage From The Sky

[@ElectroBOOM]

Hey that's me! :D Could you power your drone from the current and voltage you are harvesting so it could stay up forever?! :D

[@ginamar6218]

Oi that is 100% what I was going to say. What is the current at 100 meters?

[@ExpertCMX]

Hahahahahha

[@kelvinpino4065]

That's a job for the rectifier!!!

[@ExpertCMX]

Love your videos electroboom.😭🥰🥰

[@chuckbrown617]

None of this is new. Ask any Amateur Radio operator who ever used a long-wire antenna at any appreciable height. The static buildup is enough to destroy the radio if it isn't shunted to ground.

[@TheActionLab]

I have wanted to do this for so long! That is so cool that you got it to work!

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thanks James! It was really tricky, but if you give it a try let me know. I’ll tell you what worked for me. Honestly… it is so fun getting shocked by the wire. Haha.

[@esecallum]

@@PlasmaChannel i was puzzled why you did not put an ammeter to measure CURRENT FLOW in line. Also you can get a fine wire sieve from kitchen , etc cooking pot etc sieve and remove the edging to get thousands of exposed points...

[@PlasmaChannel]

Over the shelf Ammeters tend to have difficulty measuring such low currents. I personally found the voltage more interesting than overall power.

[@esecallum]

@@PlasmaChannel my $4 yellow multimeter can measure currents down to 1 microamp. also SINCE Power= IV without measuring CURRENT the high voltage is meaningless.

[@PlasmaChannel]

I’d bet your ammeter has a 600 volt max rating, yes? That makes it useless. Correct me if your model is rated for 15,000 volts, which is what’s needed. You’re thinking in terms of wattage. Again, I didn’t care too much about wattage. I personally found the voltage the most interesting thing. It’s what my entire channel is about - high voltage. If I were to say, “tons of power is being drawn, see, 11kv,” that would be an impossible statement. True. Without current, Ohm’s law would not be completed and power claims would be pointless. As I’m not referencing quantity of power in the video, and voltage is what fascinates me, that’s what I focused on.

[@Digital-Dan]

It would be interesting to know how many microwatts or even milliwatts of power were being generated by that nice experiment. That would give one some idea of what it would take to scale the process up.

[@ClockworkGearhead]

You can't. That energy is literally coming off of radio waves and local infrastructure. If you tap into it you create RF shadows. No radio, no phones.

[@davidfaustino4476]

Virtually none.

[@sepg5084]

@@davidfaustino4476 virtually none, actually some.

[@sepg5084]

It would not be very efficient. Need to be quite high, and needs a large aerial "collector". Then maybe some transformers to step down the voltage and raise the current.

[@Stroheim333]

Don't listen to the naysayers, they just presume things out of prejudices, they never calculate or try to be creative. If you use a balloon instead of a drone, you need no energy to hold the wire in the air. And then it could be fully possible to harvest more energy than the device is using. Charge your drone or mobile with it?

[@medina3420]

That is Awesome! Keep Working Jay, We need people like you. Help us

[@JoelCreates]

lightning on a budget, I like it

[@PlasmaChannel]

Hey Joel, thanks for stopping by. Yeah, this video got me thinking. I’ll be upscaling and using an industrial drone for pt 2. Want to break the 500m barrier.

[@r.vishal9750]

It is on budget as long as the drone is in budget

[@motosk8er2]

@@PlasmaChannel Oh man are you gonna try and trigger lightning like they do with model rockets? That would be legit insane to catch on video, only a couple of people have ever done it!

[@ThatGameGuyy]

@@PlasmaChannel why not use a weather balloon and an absurd amount of wire

[@DineshKumar-uv3xb]

@@ThatGameGuyy maybe because it would be unstable during wind and probably pull off nails from the ground. But still it can be used

[@tannerbean3801]

My late grandfather did this in the Arizona desert as a child during the great depression(without a drone). His rural farm house was the first in town to be electrified for lighting, using his makeshift wind turbine. As his story went, his wire strung through the air collected enough charge during storms to drive adequate current through an incandescent light in the house, until lightning struck nearby.

[@DJRonnieG]

The lightning was my response to "maybe we should revisit this" part of the video. However, radio ops and antennae can be equipped to deal with lightning. Perhaps this should be looked into.

[@OrionMadix]

Great story! Reminds me of one from my late grandfather as well. He lived on a farm where a set of high voltage lines passed near his barn. He ended up coiling wire around the rafters of the barn siphoning a significant amount of energy. As the story goes, eventually the power company showed up with various meters and pieces of equipment looking around for where they were losing so much power. Ended up leaving, scratching their heads on confusion. Don't know how true the story is, but it's still a lot of fun

[@de0509]

@@OrionMadix lmao. Yes in my backyard then.

[@patrickday4206]

@@OrionMadix it could be done expensive for the copper

[@stillfrugal6618]

IMO, if you had used a spark gap between ground and antenna. You could of realized the full potential of the atmospheric ions. If you remember ElectroBooms diagram. A spark gap would of allowed the ion currents to oscillate up and down. Creating A/C current. That really would of been shocking, not a little spark. Also, what about sending up a collector made of graphene or borene?

[@HummusPvm]

Youve won my heart, this is exactly the type of experiments i think about day in and day out and you actualize some of em 😍

[@robertfelmly5954]

This is similar to articles I've seen for lightning protection. Rather than using lightning rods with attract violent strikes, a massive metal mesh umbrella (like Wardencliff) absorbs the atmospheric charge and bleeds it off to ground at the rate of many amperes of current.

[@syweiner434]

So, this explains ancient Egypt's pyramid obsession.

[@popaopol]

​@@syweiner434That plays a part. Think Tesla coil

[@jodygwiinn1233]

Yes im skilled machinist will build this off old am radio tower like your thinking you know elec cars need charge with free elec think be killed liked being employee was as you are not free as slave to power companies when we have sun nuclear chain reaction sendind free power i think guid wires could wrap with copper wire and get power from wind

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

Finally some semi mainstream coverage of the atmospheric energy harvesting

[@Bartholomew_Allen_III]

Greetings from Tartaria

[@simon6071]

It can be kind of dangerous if there is a thunder storm brewing.

[@simon6071]

A single bolt of lightning carries a few billion joules of energy, sufficient enough to power a tens of homes for a day. Any idea how we can store that kind of energy from lightning bolts to power a house?

[@Crosshatch1212]

Well it’s about time someone in this century got us back to the power stations off old that where told to us to be Abby’s .you should see the size off the copper coils on the roofs .I think Paul cook has video off one he climbed up ,peace

[@ibank6011]

@@simon6071 red brikcs

[@jamiemahoney2446]

I would definitely be interested in seeing the build for the motor.

[@MadScientist267]

They're easy. Built one in the 80s out of 1 and 2L bottles... Power supply can be anything from scuffing feet to van de graffe to a flyback transformer... Just needs to be DC. Use some imagination and experiment......

[@henreman]

@@MadScientist267 any pointers to how to build one? (maybe a quick video or a guide)

[@ekulda]

What kind of torque can be achieved with this motor?

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

Also, bravo & thanks to everyone (including Jay) contributing to the Comments thread for inspiring & motivating further work, solutions, & results for scaling-up & further R&D of hybrid next-gen power systems.

[@michaelmleczko7039]

I just watched a video of yours for the 1st time....OUTSTANDING !! WOW !

[@ezrarichardson279]

Try a kite. Cheap, repeatable, already has a string that you could put a wire around and a decent payload weight.

[@float32]

Or a balloon. No power needed.

[@markos.5539]

Franklin moment

[@TheMuddatrucker]

I thought the same, had a small single line sled kite as a kid, with next to no ground wind at all you could still get it to fly, Once up there at a few hundred meters it would stay there all day long!

[@pauljs75]

And do it with good wind on a really dry day, and have the lifting surface act as the collector with a metallized material. Also how many mA does it produce? (We have some idea that it increases voltage with elevation, but does it make power in any usable amount?) Might be neat to try charging a battery with a spark gap and a tuned oscillator circuit combined with a rectifier of some sort.

[@PhilLesh69]

Years ago I bought a kite at the beach and let it run out the entire length of line and tied it to the deck railing at the beach house that I was renting. It flew for a day and a half before it finally fell out of the sky and got tangled up in some brambles on the other side of the road and about 200 yards from the house.

[@jvon3885]

Thank you for the clarification on the word Free. It's not about free as in zero cost. It's about proving that energy was never meant to cost more than its mechanical cost. And it's free of harmful b.s.

[@joellobo4378]

I enjoy watching your videos very much, keep up the research, it's so thrilling to observe the results and the possibilities, while having fun all the way around.

[@TheCabult]

Omg finally this is the concept that the Wardenclif tower worked on before it was destroyed. This was the hidden use of the tower.

[@marianbuduroi6463]

A helium balloon or hot air can go much higher than a drone (depends on how long is the wire) but we need a stabilizer to prevent the wind from moving the balloon everywhere

[@CrossingTheStreetArt]

A few wires tied from the balloon to the ground would keep it from blowing everywhere.

[@thom1218]

@9:13 - "Where the hell does all this energy come from?" - The voltage gradient the is result of energy from the sun (generating thunderstorms, etc) and cosmic rays. The voltage gradient itself isn't the source of the energy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_electricity

[@tommymartin4827]

5g

[@Infinion]

Indeed, the question doesn't nearly go far enough to explore Earth's Global Electric Circuit. Could be an opportunity.

[@a-oh2bc]

Aether (:

[@anatomicallymodernhuman5175]

Ikr? It's the Plasma Channel, and yet he doesn't even mention that the differential is caused largely by solar plasma.

[@delaneingallsvanada5790]

Great work, Jay! This stuff is fascinating, and your videos are so well done!

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thank you very much!

[@strawman9410]

Like the last section, yes make balloons to collect it. Need to find a way to use the collected energy for a device that would be beneficial. Thanks for sharing

[@mikeavison5383]

Apologies if this has already been said @Plasma Channel (your brilliant videos get so many comments I can't read them all to check), but I think I understand the problem with your electroscope in the early part (at 3:46). It actually started working really well when you touched the glass jar (at 5:10). So what i think was happening is that you have a slight conductive film on the jar (maybe cleaning product you used to make it nice and shiny before filming) which is allowing the surface of the jar to charge up to the same potential as the leaves, so there is a counter force to the force pushing them apart. As soon as you touched the glass this charge was dispelled and the problem surface was not conducting enough to let all the charge from the lid to dissipate through your hand, so it started working. BTW your videos are truly amazing, I love them. I would be very interested to have a very brief description of what the problems were getting each project working. In this one you say it took months of drone flying to get to the final quality demonstration.

[@michaeljames5936]

No idea if you're right, but it sounds reasonable and you took all that effort to explain yourself, so 'Thumbs Up'.

[@lonnpton5239]

@@michaeljames5936 haha same

[@deiterwakes1907]

This makes me wonder about the old stone buildings with copper dome roof, and those old spark gap looking fireplace objects.

[@sebastianwehler3218]

And not just any stone. Ancient sightings have used a specific type of stone that stores energy. That should be enough hints for you :P And what do you think pyramids are? :P

[@Equelan2]

And they weren't grounded until the beginning of recent century. So they were gathering and accumulating energy by using those domes and anttenas on top of domes.

[@Airclot]

@@sebastianwehler3218 I'm a geologist. Can you tell me what this incredible stone is that can store energy?

[@alexandertest1238]

@@sebastianwehler3218 Most of ancient stone buildings have a mixture of quartz in them for electrical conductivity. :)

[@samoks123]

Very interesting. Do you have additional references for such type of stone works

[@robertbrewer1152]

That’s really cool. Can’t wait to see what the future of energy turns into.

[@merryprankstermatt]

Very cool. You're definitely right, maybe it's time we had another look at this old tech

[@LabCoatz_Science]

I've always wanted to see this concept tested, well done Jay! And congrats on getting an Electroboom cameo! Maybe next time you could try charging a high voltage capacitor (like a Leyden jar) with your antenna, or better yet, let it run your Marx generator. That could potentially be a great demonstration of how significant the charge differential is! Also, have you considered using Mylar balloons instead of your drone? You might be able to get the wire higher and develop even more voltage (only issue I see is balloon drift...)

[@greatdavis4230]

But balloons can go boom in the air because of the sun

[@AmorDeae]

@@greatdavis4230 nope, balloons go boom because of the pressure difference between the inside and outside. Like sealed bags puff up on planes, balloons try to expand more as they get higher until they pop. That's why weather balloons etc are "underpumped" before release, to give it some room for expansion.

[@greatdavis4230]

@@AmorDeae thanks bro for the explanation

[@PlasmaChannel]

Nice to see you here LC! Thanks my friend. I actually built a layden jar and planned to test it for the video. Then, cut out the footage because it hardly worked. Likely too much leakage in my design, and charging current too low. But.. there’s ways around that!

[@greatdavis4230]

@@PlasmaChannel we appreciate the hard work you put in to make this video

[@brentmcdonnell360]

Epic! This is very very cool 😎 thank you for bringing such radical ideas to light 😁

[@ceascarr9851]

So inspiring ... Peace and light to you and yours..,.

[@4176rajan]

It is very fascinating to imagine what the future could be like

[@dr.zarkhov9753]

Definitely do a build video for that electrostatic motor Jay. Another excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thank you very much. I'm definitely going to do a build video!

[@lasersaber]

Excellent job! I still remember my amazement when I first got motors running off atmospheric electricity. Fun stuff. It's reported that you can do this with a 20-foot pole with a tiny bit of radium paint on the tip of a needle. Thanks for sharing. I subscribed.

[@PlasmaChannel]

lasersaber, you've got an impressive Atmomotor on your channel. It's beautiful and definitely better designed than the one I threw together for this video. I've also heard that a 20 foot pole may be able to power milliwatt level motors. Honored to have you subbed.

[@markos.5539]

You inspired me to make my own nuclear battery, now im going to uni and studying nuclear tech

[@johnnycash4034]

@@markos.5539 which university?

[@deadbabiesinvomit]

Oh yeah. Interesting.

[@deadbabiesinvomit]

@@markos.5539 i wanna make toy ufos

[@Kevin_Street]

Thank you for this video. Such a cool experiment! I really wonder how it might work with everything scaled up, like with the balloons at the end.

[@girmaybass68]

Thank you! Very intriguing!

[@eugenes9751]

Atmospheric energy is a thing, but the amount of potential energy is so low that it's completely pointless. This is actually the thing that gave Ben Franklin's kite a shock, and not a lightning bolt.

[@memyname1771]

I was curious to see if anyone who posted comments here understands static electricity. I found a few others. Most of the comments demonstrate a total lack of understanding of electricity.

[@megaraitei]

This dude's videos motivated me to build my very first Tesla Coil. It was great .. the build and the final results.

[@mehmetinlaboratuvar7099]

same here :D

[@000TQ000]

@@mehmetinlaboratuvar7099 what were the results?

[@sarahoceanhart8145]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@jraym17]

Just the fact you use and understand the word relative.... You have my sub

[@swamppifi6186]

of course we want a build video on the static motors, thank you

[@shandani7215]

Wow, I wish when I growing up, I had friends like you. None of my friends were a fraction as interesting as you guys.

[@G0DzilLA2012]

do you have IG or Discord?

[@michasuper1796]

Amazing film, thank you

[@shahiilshet8353]

man your work never disappoints me keep it up

[@YautjaSpacePirate]

This will be EPIC!!! We got to tap into this kind of power! 🤘

[@ibank6011]

it is free energy, our elites never alooved us to have it for free

[@grubbypaws3566]

Hello Jay, great video didn’t realise that this existed. Noted that you said humidity affected the build up, where as lightning needs humidity to to make the strike . (Free energy v static) on static I worked with corporate jets the static charge on the Perspex window was enough to blow the cleaner off his ladder at work, many years ago 😁😁

[@PlasmaChannel]

I've actually done a video on static discharge on airplane windows...that charge can be incredibly large. It's really impressive stuff.

[@steve-o6413]

@@PlasmaChannel St. Elmo's Fire...

[@albertarchuleta9339]

love your example. Simple to understand, And yes, we should revisit this method.

[@zjalapeno]

but how can they profit from it?

[@jaredbrooks7658]

I remember doing some research several years ago on the use of polarized dielectrics (i.e. modified coaxial cable) to harvest atmospheric electricity. I don't remember much of it these days, but it basically boiled down to exploiting a type of activity that ham radio operators actively try to minimize.

[@h7opolo]

we should absolutely be harnessing every bit of energy from the environment versus chemical reactions.

[@lemlihoussama2905]

It is still unknown what result this harnessing method will lead to, maybe the atmosphere will be discharged of all the potentiel energy and then no thunder or lightning, which leads to no accumulation of rain drops, which means no rain etc... This is my speculations and of course if used as a source of energy to power our everyday life. Energy is not lost but just transfered, for example the wind power, wind speed decreases after passing by a wind turbine.

[@lemlihoussama2905]

@Bernard Konkin My comment wasn't to prove anyone wrong, and as I said it's only my theory and speculations. My point is that yes it exists and true it was studied but the overall effects are still unknown, because it was never used extensively!

[@terryr9052]

No, the methods have not been USED for a 1000 years (they may have been KNOWN for a 100 years but that is different) - thus overall effects are unknown.

[@brag0001]

@Bernard Konkin since I'm able to read German and French I'll happily take your suggestion of at least one physics book written in any of the two languages from before 1600 ...

[@steve-o6413]

@Bernard Konkin you are correct, but it goes back to times far beyond our current History and text. I believe that this is what Nikola Tesla was trying to build after studying the Pyramids and Obelisks, hence the all seeing eye above the Pyramid on the back of the dollar bill, and the words of it in God we Trust. But were the Pyramids built on a more Ancient Site or was it constructed by a Highly Advanced Civilization spanning tens of thousands of years before the Egyptians. Hard to believe with our liner time line, but not impossible when you know it always existed...

[@RimstarOrg]

Nice job! The wind probably helped, pulling away the air that your points ionized and bringing in fresh air. Definitely try with a balloon, that's something I didn't get a chance to try with mine. I also had a concern about the wire breaking low down (happened once with the drone version) and the balloon flying away and draping the wire across power lines so if you do it, make sure your wire is strong or add a second tether like a string.

[@PlasmaChannel]

Hey Rimstar! Thanks for dropping by. Yeah, the wind likely did help somewhat, possibly even added extra charge due to collisions along the length of wire as well. You have a great video series - I’m currently producing an atmo motor loosely inspired by yours.

[@gadgetsage]

Or a kite

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

@@PlasmaChannel Jay & RO, have you seen the videos by the guys who did the 4 towers connected by a wire with little strips of graphene stuck all over it? I forget the height, but I think the wire was at about 50 meters or so. The take-off cable was coaxial, with high-voltage shielding, but when a storm was brewing (taking ave. atmospheric voltage up to about 300 V per m.), an arc broke through and burnt a hole in the plywood wall of the equipment shack. So, yes, wind & higher "charge" are good.

[@ivodsm5167]

The device should be in the balloon 😉

[@stephendeese97]

This was sooooo well done.

[@skram1000]

Amazing work

[@GimmeMonie]

Try this close to the power lines, you'll probably get significantly way more power.

[@PhilLesh69]

Hold a fluorescent tube bulb under one

[@Kevin-jz9bg]

Nah just tap the power lines directly you'll get even more power haha

[@gadgetsage]

@@Kevin-jz9bg enough for the rest of your life (measured in seconds)

[@Kevin-jz9bg]

@@gadgetsage good one LMAO

[@dustinswatsons9150]

Electric hovercraft pls maybe just a lot of capacitors and transformers

[@naxel37]

This is somewhat like Tesla's idea if free energy. He actually had a tower towards NYC

[@motosk8er2]

No not at all like tesla, he never said a single thing about free energy. And the tower at Wardenclyffe was just a giant tesla coil that he was experimenting with for wireless power transmission. Not free energy. I live right by the tower's old location, it's now a science center.

[@boomstick4054]

I am Tesla, and yes I absolutely did

[@motosk8er2]

@lev sey I've built several. I know exactly what they where meant for, and what they are currently used for. You obviously dont if you think it has anything to do with "Free energy".

[@BurkenProductions]

Yes! A build video for the motor please!

[@justincase4618]

I have just discovered your Chanel and I dig it in a super scientifical way! My freshman, sophomore, and 1/2 junior year high school science teacher ( Dave Tinker) taught me much more than lessons in everyday science. He taught me something that has been more valuable than any degree or diploma could ever be. He taught me to view the world and the obstacles presented to us in it , as individuals from a scientific point of view. Thus turning my mind/brain into a problem solving machine. I have seldom found a “problem” or set of circumstances deemed problematic that I could not dissolve from applying basic scientific principles and methods. Any way I have recently been captivated by the works of Nikola Tesla and the specific dimensions and mysterious properties/functions of the great pyramids at Giza also all the other monolithic pyramid structures around the world. My theory is that vibration through sound ( within the realm of human hearing or not) has something to do with creating some sort of source of power that we have yet to harness or discover. And your Chanel is right up the alley of my idea. Ready for it? Fabricate a smaller but exact replica (dimensionally) of the pyramid at Giza (internal Chanel’s and all) out of … you guessed it, Acrylic, or possibly fiberglass . And replicate the conditions that are theorized to have been present when the pyramids were functioning. IE a shallow pool of water underneath that lapped against the ceiling that was only a few inches above to create a sound wave ( probobly sounding like the crack of a whip) that traveled through the Chanel’s of the structure becoming compressed and shaped until reaching a point of “ignition” which I believe to be somehow transformed into cold plasma. I imagine that the plasma was used to either be an envelope that carried information or the electrical current generated by the brain,(aka thoughts)to very very far away places (as in intergalactic) or carried physical objects. Anyway there it is. You are the first person I have shared my complete theory with, apologies for the length of the comment. Keep doing science for the sake of science doing. Gratis.

[@iamkian]

We have the same drone :-) I would love to see a video of the corona motor build ! Nice . Thank you.

[@ZillionPrey]

I think there are many ppl who own a mavic 2, it's fun and the video quality is amazing.

[@Just.a.girl.doing.her.dharma]

Did you do a video on the Corona motor? And I just found your channel about an hour ago. I want to build my own wind turbine one day. But amongst that is just the willingness to learn something new all together. Your channel definitely ties into things that Fascinate me. Thank you.

[@seattledanr5363]

Great video! Thanks. TIL 3 things: atmospheric gradient, Franklin bell and corona motor. I'd love to know more about the corona motor and how to build one.

[@softwarefacts5801]

Ah I have been waiting for this video

[@justbetruthful5981]

It's people like you that will eventually create free energy, if every one was doing stuff like this we would have it by now. Keep up the good work I wish you luck.

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

Given there wasn't the Money driven thugs always suppressing it.

[@faithtomorrow]

I think we did have it at one point in the 1800s to 1950s…before patent laws.

[@sethfrazier828]

Imagine a tall tower with a giant electrode net at the top continuously capturing that energy to power a generator or potentially into batteries storing energy

[@darknightfawkes1028]

Then you wonder why old buildings has antennas on the top of them

[@matthewfluck2372]

wasnt there a guy called tesla who wanted to do just that????

[@MrDrone423]

I had this idea, nice to see someone did it! I have the Mini 2, also. :)

[@corey396]

Definitely want to see that build video

[@leonardkjellberg729]

If you wish to harness a higher current (i.e. greater wattage potential) with a similar set up , you will need something that will decrease the ground resistance connection, a large metal mesh in the sea (salt water) will do this . Then you will need to increase the other air surface area , maybe a big ball with hundreds fine metal spikes on it , like a person's hair standing up when they touch a operating Vander graph generator . Be careful, because the device may become very dangerous harnessing greater currents.

[@memecoinmafia2732]

have you tried to do a calculation of the potential wattage per square meter ?

[@leonardkjellberg729]

No I have not done such a calculation. This is based on common sense. The distance from ground will dictate voltage on a specific day . The increase of current is dictated by the type and area of both ground surface and air surfaces used. Voltage times current equals wattage. Instead of using one probe in the ground and one in the air , you use the equivalent of thousands of probes to increase the current . If you did this on a steep mountain or hillside you may be able to power whole towns. Basically free energy .@@memecoinmafia2732

[@Nashcaster]

Very cool, I always wanders if you could get more towers to produce a better current

[@lenkipgen2488]

Brilliant bro

[@FValkyrie_17]

So it's an elaborate lightning rod with "funkiness" apparently :). But hey youtube brought me back to this high school physics concept and to your channel so win win!

[@royloveday4350]

That was fab. I would have loved to have known a bit more about actual available energy and the practically/impracticality of schemes to harness the phenomenon.

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

RL - Average energy depends on altitude, humidity, wind, local minerals, ground water (& Earth current), etc. Yet, I think minimum volts/meter tends to be about 50 V and, when a storm is building, can go up to 300+ V/m. About 100 V/m seems to be pretty common.

[@royloveday4350]

@MLMI :: Michael Lucas Monterey Innovatainment I'm guessing you know that voltage isn't energy. My question was how useful this phenomenon might be?

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

@@royloveday4350 RL - Yes, voltage is a measure of the intensity and/or potential of the EMF effects of energetic interactions of sub-fields. Tesla thought it is infinitely important and, potentially, infinitely useful. I agree. So, I think he was right in calling his resonant LC circuit transformers "power amplifiers" (which is why they drive the most powerful lasers in the world). Thanks for asking. Aloha ~

[@royloveday4350]

@@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765 Always nice to get a response. But in answer to the question what is the usefulness of this phenomenon, where do you stand and where more interestingly does the author stand??

[@Slowly_Going_Mad]

I got that first email on Patreon and KZbin wasn't having it. Excellent video as always. I think the balloon version will be an excellent follow up and no waiting on drone batteries 👍.

[@roselugo0112]

J, I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.😊😊

[@dillonbrooks7807]

Coolest and most important experiment possibly in the history of time. This shows the action potential of the invisible rainbow. I propose this is how through group elevated emotion meditation we can cause energy change in the immediate local environment. Manifestation

[@455rocket8]

Well done, I tried something similar, but far less spectacular, with a long thin plastic pole (~ 3 meters) a high voltage (low leakage) capacitor and a neon bulb (in parallel with each other), which would flash every few minutes. My experiment needed to be done at night.

[@greatdavis4230]

Do worry we will get there

[@hamjudo]

What type of electrode did you use? The current will be limited by how many sharp points you have at the top of the pole, and how much area they cover.

[@455rocket8]

@@hamjudo It was carried out in not too open an area, it had several hundred needles as points (going through a tin foil coated styrofoam cup), it was intended as a science demonstration only, so it worked well enough for that.

[@hamjudo]

@@455rocket8 That sounds to me like a really cool experiment. There is a 120kV power line running through my yard. It overwhelms the natural atmospheric electric fields. In addition to making it hard to replicate your results here, it also increases the risk of death.

[@dustinswatsons9150]

@@hamjudo well shit... What's the safest way to steal electricity from the power grid

[@wildtwindad]

Nicola Tesla approves this message!

[@deadbabiesinvomit]

Haha! Classic!

[@oneproductivemusk1pm565]

Nicola Tesla knew but was sabotaged after!

[@mykalkelley8315]

So does tartaria!

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

was scouring the comments just for this. I mean he basically did just that with Wardenclyffe. Man wouldn't put a meter on it so..i it had to go.

[@wildtwindad]

@@chrisrosenkreuz23 the fact that he built it with a COPPER magnates money, then tried to upsell wireless energy to him, killed it dead. Tesla was a genius, but jesus did he ever pick the worst business partners.

[@codemontana]

You are golden brother

[@chuuzu]

That's really cool!

[@jacobbosley1946]

Also had the thought if you've had the idea to try harnessing energy from different ecosystems? It would be great to see how the energy that can be converted to electricity might be different in a swamp as opposed to a flourishing jungle or forest in the mountains.

[@anarchistbuddhist6374]

Agreed, I would say moisture content and altitude pressure might be a key factor in different environments.

[@texasfossilguy]

deserts would probably be ideal due to low humidity

[@nadi_3305]

You could charge up a capacitor with the energy and then use a design like in a spark gap Tesla coil to drive a transformer that converts the voltage to like, nice twelve volts.

[@MadScientist267]

Good luck with that

[@minetech4898]

Reverse Tesla Coil? I like it.

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

Yep. Check out Tesla's 1906 "power tower" patent (& his drawings).

[@user-cc8kb]

Crazy. Never heard of this.

[@dennisx4492]

I just realized in this video you’re in Steilacoom, Washington!!! I hope to meet you someday, I’m absolutely in love with what you do!

[@hameedullahjasat2560]

Awesome video, keep it up. I was wondering, what potential does this have on a much larger scale?

[@mlmimichaellucasmontereyin6765]

Good question! Envision 40 meter and 618 meter power towers energizing next-gen PM motor-gen systems, etc.

[@jathkmt7869]

Hey Great Video! I was wondering why we can’t use sky scrapers to pull some power. Would be cool to see what you would generate up there.

[@Equelan2]

Voltage rises like 100V per meter and ampere depends on the surface area of your anttena up there. So lets say a skyscraper is 300 meter makes 30000V or 30kV if it even able to produce 1ma it gives 30 watt energy that would be enough to charge two mobile phones at the same time. Well lets say half of the energy consumed by resistance of wire and lost from converting 30kV 1ma to 30V 1A it still should produce 15W energy.

[@deejayy3421]

I drew up plans for that in highschool 40 years ago I never really decided if it would just stealing radio wave energy or a combo of natural and manmade power sources

[@just4callplus]

great work!

[@cosmoritoshorts1049]

J: I need high voltage from atmosphere Me: do the experiment when there will be thundering

[@jackwest3282]

Just curious how many Watts was this producing? If you connected a line to the charge port on the drone do you think it would be able to charge the drone enough to equal out the energy used to stay up and carry the loads necessary for the setup or would it be performing at a loss?

[@airflowfpv7791]

No, that drone is not efficient enough but in theory it is not impossible! People are using electric, RC, (fixed-wing) aircraft fitted with solar panels on the wings to keep systems charged and can fly indefinitely! It is possible to do, as long as the aircraft itself is able to fly using less energy than the charging system can produce. Generally, fixed wing aircraft have an advantage over quadcopters, as far as efficiency goes because they can glide unpowered at times also...

[@ceascarr9851]

Very impressive

[@antoineduplessy6009]

That was awesome 😎

[@miken7629]

I would like you to use an ignition coil in reverse to charge a capacitor, which could power a voltage regulator, to charge a device.

[@dustinswatsons9150]

Would this be more effective at a higher altitude in the mountains or lower to sea level

[@mernok2001]

The guys on Kreosan channel id it with a flyback transformer in 2017 or maybe earlier.

[@RealBadWolf]

Dang I remember seeing a similar video a long long time ago about this

[@maxxglass5822]

RimstarOrg and Lasersaber have videos on their channels of this same thing.

[@benjibts]

Wow that’s so cool!!! The first practical demonstration of the electric potential above us in the sky that I’ve watched. I’m really amazed. Is it the same electricity that produces lightning …Is the static charge, that you demonstrated, condensed in thunder storms?

[@boko1231]

Yes it would be fun if you take a big helium baloon insted and you can easy get higher in the sky for longer time, Thanks for a fun show😊

[@minerran]

Awesome experiment! I think using a balloon filled with hydrogen as your lift device would work out better than a UAV. The real question is, how many watts of power can be harvested in this way? Now I'm tempted to try this with my Mini 2 as well. Did you know that a Leyden jar could be ideal for storing your charge?

[@kokzlingkokzlingo1495]

This reminds me of Nikola tesla and his free energy devices. He knew that this power had potential to power the world without the need to burn fossils

[@PlasmaChannel]

Perhaps a key as well?

[@steve-o6413]

But it's always nice to have a backup...

[@davea8794]

Your comment also has the potential to make a great pun… ok i am leaving…

[@LuisHernandez-dh4bw]

#Pyramid

[@ChronologiXFG]

I have just basic knowledge on how to make circuitos work for a house, this is super cool. I'm either going to power my house with this concept, or i'm going to shock myself to death

[@kurtk4223]

I was researching the same principle and found a paper where NASA was proposing to use this to anchor to asteroids and steer around it using differing grounding potentials. thank u for the reference to the old German project.

[@nigel-matthews]

Awesome footage and experiment! I wonder what would happen if you used a metal screen as big as a dinner table? I think everybody is going to want to see a video about your corona motor. Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing a short (long?) video on the electroscope either.

[@maxxglass5822]

For high voltage collection you need needle points not surface area.

[@steve-o6413]

Or make a giant kite out of it use a deep sea rod and reel replace the fishing line with a Cable and go fishing, I mean kite flying...

[@PlasmaChannel]

Additional needle points adds to current flow. That is why Van Der Graaff machines use mesh to add and remove charge from the belt, as opposed to a single needle.

[@loz11968]

Great video I have heard helicopters can have issues with high voltage discharge when they are rescuing people… Also depending on height and conditions I believe it’s possible you could cause a lightning strike I vaguely remember seeing a rocket ( firework type of thing) launch into a storm trailing a wire that then causes a lightning strike at the ground point of the wire

[@steve-o6413]

Fireworks Rocket, was done in Florida in a lightning prone area, I believe, it's been years since I seen the video. But yes your right...

[@garryclelland4481]

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[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

Helicopter blades rapidly passing thru the air creates a static charge buildup that can be transferred to anything touching the rescue cable and having a ground.

[@neoyagami9039]

I like to see your project with the ancient design

[@estebanpa7923]

your videos are getting better and better

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thank you!

[@captoshuragnarok7444]

Would doing this test from the highest mountain in your area make a diffrrence? From the guest presenter's diagram it looks like it would. Very interesting and Nikola Tesla like! Awesome!

[@hixidom2274]

I don't think so. The top of the mountain (wherever the Earth ends and sky begins) will still be at 0V

[@zachsylvester309]

Would be interesting to see an antenna on a mountain with a really long wire running to ground.

[@worthypook]

The problem with that is the mountain is ground. Although, if you covered the entire mountain with an insulator.....

[@zachsylvester309]

@@worthypook Would insulating the wire and the antenna be enough?

[@analog_guy]

Did this once with a group of ham radio operators for "Field Day". Got arcs one-inch long from the down-lead from the antenna to any grounded object. The rate of arc production was proportional to the wind speed. Arcs happened every few seconds in a gentle breeze, and every second or faster in modest gusts. We were in fair weather conditions but could see cumulus clouds twenty miles away or more that might have produced thunderstorms. After dark, we could see points of corona discharge along the down-lead.

[@johnconrad5487]

Very cool. I never believed that it is true but i suppose... Live and learn..

[@nickmonk7945]

That was AWESOME! Thank you American Jamie Oliver