Drone Harvesting INVISIBLE High Voltage From The Sky ⚡ 

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

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

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

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.

lightning on a budget, I like it

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.

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 😍

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.

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

Finally some semi mainstream coverage of the atmospheric energy harvesting

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

@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

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...)

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

man your work never disappoints me keep it up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 😁😁

Amazing! Thank you!

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.

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

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

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

Thank you! Very intriguing!

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.

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

Amazing film, thank you

This was sooooo well done.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Ah I have been waiting for this video

Amazing work

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

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.

Cool!

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

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

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.

Definitely want to see that build video

That's really cool!

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.

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.

Yes! A build video for the motor please!

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.

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?

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

That was awesome 😎

your videos are getting better and better

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.

I got that first email on Patreon and RU-vid 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 👍.

great work!

Brilliant bro

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.

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.

lovely

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

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

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.

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Very impressive

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

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

I absolutely love this 🤔 might need to give it a go 😏

Ciao great video and experiments, as always on your channel! May I ask you about grounding? Did you try different setups?

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.

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?

Remarkable!

dude, awes0me!

So if I live at 9600’ do I need a drone, or just a really badass electrode?

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!

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?

J, I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.😊😊

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

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

Good job.

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

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.

Awesome video! What material did you use for your electrode and was that something you made?

WOOOH . This hits diff.🤩

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