Speaking of ice. I use to put some of my cells in the freezer to see what would happen and how would they respond to the cold. You could give the freezer experiment a try? I even made cells that were ice cubes with salts and such in them, it was very interesting. 


Just watch out sometimes the cells will expand or pop.

@IB: Yeah, I can give that a try easily enough. Some additives (sodium bicarbonate for one!) make cells puff up like muffins LOL!!
BTW, they sell solid copper tacks for nailing up the felt weatherproofing around doorjambs. Also, I think you can get solid copper nails; people drive them into tree stumps to prevent them from re-growing (Cu is poisonous to plants, something to consider...).

Happy experimenting,
PC

more from paul:



Hi,

There are various methods that demonstrate this is already possible. Nature is the best example called the Dew Point effect. The clear night sky is 2.7 K, which is why horizontal surfaces cool down at night far faster than vertical surfaces. Also I wrote computer simulation software that showed me exactly how cones and parabolas would work. A lens will also work. If you focus T-rays coming from a square meter of surface onto 0.1 square meters then the 0.1 m^2 surface will become hot.

Although the simulation software is only in 2D space, it confirmed goofy experiment. I believe a 3D version would also confirm.

Presently I am working on technology that will allow T-rays to traverse through a special medium one direction, but reflect the other direction. This will allow up to 900 watts per m^2 of a very thin sheet.

Paul Lowrance

 I like how John finally went to an expert and found his answers. The problem being is that the experts don't explain the other processes going on there. They seem to forget the mass and surface area matter has. They fail to explain the complex flows of planes and surfaces provide. Some are like coaral and are very porous and some are very very smooth. All the while a strange event also plays out. INDUCTION. Resonance. and surface tensions... They don't include the realms they deem unfathomable. They only provide one side of the story.

Yes black copper oxide is conductive!triffid

 I started looking back to what we can see at the smallest levels and I think this one is very interesting.


http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2012/02/photonic-crystals-turing-heat-into.html


 I think what they did was grow crystals from tungsten. They just masked the holes with a chemical which will repel the structure building solution. But this is done at very high temperatures. And special masking techniques have to be used. I highly doubt we normal guys could do this.


 My thought is that we are doing the same thing here but at a lower room temperature. The formation times get extended with a lowering of temperature but none the less should be similar. Our method utilizes the matters orientation and how it automatically builds to those complex interactions on the fly. crystals are strange. They are a growing product. They evolve and change based on discrete environments of available material and propagation of that material in the ever changing landscape.
 The strangest thing is we can use seeds to start the process and generate better bases to grow from. Specially grown crystals could be harvested to provide a better matrix to grow from and provide a stronger capability to push or transform pushes into usable energy. These matrixes could be in paste form till they are needed. Once installed into the unit the unit should be polarized then vibrated to allow the past matrix to align to the natural voltages of the plates of the device.
 Now from what I hear most toothpaste has ultrafine sand in it. This sand might be a key aspect to our paste. Quartz definitely should be tried with this. Salts would be self forming after a phase change from molten to crystalline form so salts should have no issue with alignment. But salts carry their own bag of tricks and I think we have figured out a few tricks of our own that helps the crystals go in the direction we chose without harming our electrodes. The only problem then is maintaining the current abilities of the cell. Weather that be sealed as much as possible or practicability remains to be seen. There are two splits now from this one idea. One utilizes water as the vehicle of energy. That gives some momentum having water tied to the charge being carried. The other utilized the structure itself to focus and impart a gain in potential between the two. You could think of it as a lens that is magnifying the intensity of that spot. Just as in nature you can harness the power of the sun likewise you can do the same to this energy via a suitable focal lens. You could think of it as the perfect heat engine. And some are photaic as well. And some are vibrational detectors too.... We have many aspects we can harness all at the same time.
 We have to stop looking at this from the traditinal accepted rule. The still teach electrostatics at the college level. We need to start understanding what electrostatics is really and the laws it follows.

 OMG we have had the answer to cancer since 2007. WTF. Because it is soo cheap they don't want us to fix us. Got to love greed...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0BJKC_LLw

@ IB: So what is the best way to hook the cells up to a capacitor? Cells in series with the LED on the + side of the cap? Parallel cells with the - side to the cap? Parallel seems to keep pace with the cells hooked up to the cap so... I guess I need to look this stuff up huh? 

Happy experimenting folks,
PC

After I logged off yesterday I added two more electrodes to the wet sponge to test .Pencil lead and another copper plated nail(i had forgotten to use a control).Copper plated nail to copper plated nail gave me a voltage  of .005.So to correct my range for the nails(.011-.005=.006 volts and then .050-.005=.045volts).Now I still see a higher voltage when I use black copper oxide nail instead of a copper plated nail.I repeatedly got 1.34 volts from the pencil lead and the magnesium strip using just tap water.Then I got a crazy idea.I wanted to see if I could get any voltage at all from dry epsom salts straight from the box with no glue,no salt sub,no water.So I filled an empty medicine bottle with dry epsom salts ,stuck a pencil lead and a magnesium strip without touching in the bottle.I got a max of .004 volts from the dry epsom salts.Already the pencil lead and magnesium strip had decided for itself what direction of pos and neg it was going to take.Something had happened at the boundaries of the electrodes to determine the direction of voltages.With no water ,no other things except dry from the box epsom salts and the two electrodes I chose to stick in the bottle.So the crystals are giving off tiny voltages all the time.When you add water and morton salt sub and the electrodes the cell organizes itself (as it dries out) into a crystal matrix that produces electricity from the vacuum.
triffid