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In article , "Bill"
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I have a scheme for tapping into the power of the rotating earth. I even
built an apparatus that worked for several years. Michael Faraday built a
small scale device working on the same principle. It is not perpertual
motion or any crackpot scheme. It does slow down the rotation of the
earth a
little and causes local weather changes (on a very small scale).

Bill

If what you say is TRUE, then the rest of us should make it our business
to KILL you and everyone who KNOWS about your device.........

You have invented a GLOBAL Disaster, as if you pull energy from the
Earths Rotational Momentum, then the Earth will obviously STOP Spinning,
and Life as we know it will CEASE. Your Device is kill us ALL, and
therefore is actually WORSE, for humanity, than GLOBAL WARMING......

Let us all start the GLOBAL Angular Momentum Crisis Insitute to deal
with this MONUMENTAL Crisis, in the making. Maybe I can even win the
Nobel Peace Prize, for this idea......

Me who wonders just how stupid humanity really is......

You have compelled me to reveal the device!

The device uses the rotation of the earth through its own magnetic field to
generate electricity. Such devices fall into the class of unipolar, or as
Gaynz prefers, homopolar generators. Faradays early devices used a fixed
magnet and rotating disc. However, the magnet can rotate with the disc as
shown in this reference:

http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/ou...18unipolar.pdf

The earth has been modelled as a homopolar generator in the following
references:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earth-magnetic-00a.html

http://www.phy6.org/earthmag/dynamos2.htm

http://www.phy6.org/earthmag/dynamos.htm

So it is obvious to those practised in the art that a vertical conductor on
the earth's surface will develop a potential between the top and bottom of
the conductor due to unipolar induction. A radio tower develops a potential
between the bottom and top. Now, if the bottom of the tower is grounded and
the top designed to extract/feed free electrons from/to the atmosphere,
current will flow through the tower. A tower, a kite with a conducting
string, sea water all work also.

"Now why hasn't this been done before?", many of you are skeptically asking.
But it has:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_D._Jefimenko

He has written a book on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Electrostatic-...2573363&sr=1-6

As well as many other fine books:

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&sear...fimenko&page=1

Unfortunately the source of the current is incorrectly assigned to
"atmospheric electricity" rather than the unipolar effects of the earth
rotating through its magnetic field. Using the correct principle one can
properly design a collector tower capable of producing many amperes of
current for as long as the earth turns through its magnetic field. I have
built such a device and it has operated without interruption for years.

Bill