fuck the "energy crisis"

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i do have a 2ft copper pipe about 1cm diameter in my room so i am going to try this next week what does the other pipe have to be just anyhting steelish?

the steel/iron has to be galvanized i think, or should be anyways.. if it starts to rust i don't think it'll hold a current or some shit

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ok, going off my limited knowledge here.

I know copper holds a static charge, that's why copper sheeting repels slugs from hosta plants and it looks nice as a flower garden border. I also know that the earth is magnetic, and that magnets are used to create electricity. But attaining a harvestable amount of electricity from the ground seems very far fetched or not worth it, similar to the idea that yes ocean water contains gold, about 1 atom of it per million parts other shit, so not really feasable to harvest it. It would seem that MAYBE under certain curcumstances you could get a little bit, like if there was a really high concentration of copper in the ground there, but if that was the case, copper ore and its byproduct turquoise (oxidized copper) would be more profitable to harvest than the electricity.

Now, explain how i am wrong in terms my little redneck brain can digest.

do you know what ions are? How about salts? Salts are essentially paired ions (table salt for instance is the paired ions of sodium and chlorine). When salts are put in water, they become ionic again.
Ground water, because it has ions in it, has a weak electric charge. So, when you put a metal that's conductible in contact with the ground water, it will carry a weak electric current.

Now, according to at least several hundred crappy amateur youtube vids, this electric current is significant (about 1 volt of electricity can be generated out of the ground with crude scrap metal).

In theory, you could put a shitload of metal spikes in the ground all hooked up together, and have enough electricity to power small electrical devices or perhaps even a car battery. If you're a survival junkie, that should peak your interest

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Back to the copper sheeting, so what you are saying is that the copper itself is not what holds the charge, that its actually moisture content from the fresh water in the ground and the salts in the ground that are electrifying the copper and keeping the slugs off my aunts hostas. correct?

yeah

[maks]

the steel/iron has to be galvanized i think, or should be anyways.. if it starts to rust i don't think it'll hold a current or some shit

you're basically talking about the world's largest and weakest potato battery

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you're basically talking about the world's largest and weakest potato battery