Sarah:

First, welcome to our group here.  We are happy to have you.  The more minds working on this, the better.

That is a very interesting post you have made.  I too have heard about farmer's powering their farms quite a while back, although I can't remember just what or where I have read these tales.

If you have read our topic here, you can see several references to Nathan Stubblefield lighting his farm and house as well as heating his house, and running the telephone company of Murray all from his earth batteries.  I am not totally sure about this but since he lived in what was then a very rural part of the country in general, and Kentucky specifically, and considering the time of his experiments, I think there was no grid available there to him at that time.

If I am correct about this, I am not sure if it makes sense that a power company would be upset by someone making their own energy if they were not a customer at the time, although, an argument could be made that they did not want this generally known in other parts of the country.  We do know that he traveled to the east coast and held demonstrations of his devices in several major cities.  This might have been enough to get someone's attention.

It is well known of the "power wars" taking place at around that time.  Edison was, of course, pushing his dc power and Westinghouse (and Tesla) was pushing ac power.  As we all know ac eventually won out, but it was a bitter fight for some time.  I have seen documentary films of Edison electrocuting large animals in demonstrations of how "dangerous" ac power was.  He killed many horses and even an elephant during this time, as well as many dogs and cats. (It was very sad to see)  When a convicted murderer was put to death using the electric chair for the first time, Edison said that the man had been "Westinghoused", because ac power was used for the chair.

I guess what I am trying to say here is that, it is possible that someone rounded up all of NS's devices to keep them from getting out into the general public knowledge.  I am not saying this is what happened, but, given the other events of the time period, I suppose it is possible.

Again, welcome.

Bill

 I would like to throw a speculative thought into the works.
 In the read from Reply #3156 it sounds like one of the primary windings if charged would suspend a magnetic field in the iron bar like a leedskinin magnetic holder U shape thingy. If the amount of current/voltage being suspended were nearly equal to what was present in the earthly and atmospheric surrounding could that become a tank circuit if that is the right word for it. A change in one would cause a reaction in the other in it's attempt to reach a equal state. One would draw from the surrounding to balance out what was knocking the other off kilter. The water in that region is a bit high in calcium so the first soaking might only serve as a loose layer of semiconductor material in the cotton insulation to add to the sympathetic reaction of change. So a high state suspended field in the ground might be itself try to cause the space it occupies to become equally opposed. Then with a slight bleed off of the primary the ground/earths state flows throw the secondary because it sees it as a void. Im not very good at explaining what is a mental picture I work best with machines not people.
  In short charge and short the primary ,place in earth and wait a bit. Connect a load to the secondary and spark off a little bit of the magnetic induction in suspension in the primary but not all of it. See if you get a good reading from the secondary and for how long.

sarah2009 said:

...If anybody was using a Stubblefield coil, I believe it would be easy for the
“Free energy police” to track them .
A Stubblefield coil in the ground would surely broadcast a frequency
which could be pinpointed by triangulation

@sarah2009 and all others,

It's not just Stubblefield coils:
Spark gaps in general emit a wide range of radio frequencies and harmonics that come out as static on radios.  Think of a car radio before relaying spark plug static over the speaker as the gas pedal is pressed.
Eventually, a way was invented to eliminate this problem, but, whoever uses a spark gap for experiments can have their position triangulated by the authorities. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_gap

Moreover, some free energy ambient energy augmenting systems may contribute to the problem.  A simple example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter

--Lee

Hi protonmom,

The cotton covered wire is on my list, but no I didn't order it yet.

jeanna

Hi All,

I am back.  I have lot's of work I'm trying to catch up on.  I have had the coil running a magnet motor make and break switch ever since I got back.  It was still going this morning and shows no indication of stopping.

Here is a quick video to bring you up to speed:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGV-yiQ2WOE

Laser:

Excellent job on the make/break and your coil.  I'll bet your secondary will really put out some power.  We, as a group, have discussed several ways to utilize a make/break device but you are the first here to build one, and it works great.

Very well done.

Bill

Hi guys when reading Stubblefield patent again I am understanding that he is saying to do a bifilar winding with copper and iron wire with copper wire in the end as secondary.
Are there others that understood it like me?
Thanks

Wow...

This cotton covered coil is one of the great misteries of Universe!

Any scientific explanation for the source of energy of this coil? Telluric currents, like in Earth batteries??

Keep on keeping on, lasersaber!

Yes, the Stubblefield device can be primed ("prime the pump" as NBS often said)in more than one way. Notice that in using water the effects only truly started to be noticed after it dryed out quite a bit. The electrolytic action of either dunking in water and letting it air dry, or placing it in the earth and letting the natural moisture of the ground as well as the currents of the earth process the device. (you can also connect the #5 & #6 wires to make the device function as an electromagnet) Now, it is of my opinion that once this is done either way the device then starts doing it's job as a zpe(zero point energy)converter. If the coil is done properly it will naturally gather radiant/zpe energy from the vacuum and convert to useable current. One could further this device by tuning it so as to increase the frequency of natural zpe all around us. This device is another that is similar to function as a zpe collector just as Moray's valve did so in conjunction with an antenna to "zero in"/Tune in to the correct frequency/frequencies.
(Not to derail but to add to this:)
I also had wanted to say to those doing the crystal batteries in the other thread that After much research into these subjects I believe that the crystal batteries are also like the moray valve and the NBS device in that they are zpe collector/converters. If one were to add tuning coils and the correct antenna you could increase your volts/amps many many times over. (just my thoughts)