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I have been kicking the same idea around for abit now ... a while ago, me and my friend built a simple crystal radio circut (no speaker) and a iron pipe hammered into the ground ... and flew a 100 foot magnet wire on a kite ... we got 6-12 volts on it with peaks of 30-35 volts (the capacitor's max) ... though we did not measure amperages (too bad too .. we could feel it on the line; kinda dangerous) ...

This is nothing new .. and goes as far back as the 1850s - 1860s (I got the patent if u want it; it's Vion IIRC, not Tesla too)...

I term all this earth tether stuff as RED ELF for, alternatively:

Radiant Energy Devices Extremely Low Frequency

Radiant Energy Devices Electrostatic Longitudinal Fields

It is related to Nikola Tesla. I read about what Perrault is doing .. but he is following Plauson's lead with radioactivity IIRC ... Never seen mention of "Lawrence Rayburn" have any info / links on him? I'll have to look him up ...

NASA is doing the same thing but in space (where there is alot more energy (they call their stuff the "eletrodynamic tether")) ...

You can find most of the patents on the wikipedia article of atmospheric electricity (most/all of which i put in there) ...

Reddi

Atmospheric electricity patent list

In the United States Patent Office classification, the main classification is 310/308 Electrical Generator or Motor / Charge accumulating. Other applicable classes regarding atmospheric electricity include:

• 307/149 Electrical Transmission or interconnection systems / Miscellaneous Systems
• 320/166 Electricity: Battery of Capacitor Charging or Discharging / Capacitor Charging or Discharging
• 361/212 Electricity: Electrical Systems and Devices / Discharging or Preventing accumulation of Electric Charge(e.g., Static Electricity)
• 174/6 Electricity: Conductors and Insulators / Earth Grounds
• 174/2 Electricity: Conductors and Insulators / Lightning Protection

Source: United States Patent Office classification system - Classification Definitions, June 30, 2000.

Patents related to atmospheric electricity

American

• Vion, U.S. Patent 28793 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=28793) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=28793); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=28793)), "Improved method of using atmospheric electricity", June 1860.
• Ward, U.S. Patent 126356 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=126356) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=126356); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=126356)), "Improvement in collecting electricity for telegraphing", using towers to collect atmospheric electricity, April 1872.
• Loomis, U.S. Patent 129971 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=129971) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=129971); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=129971)), "Improvement in telegraphing" "without the aid of wires or artificial batteries", Jul. 1872.
• Palencsar, U.S. Patent 674427 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=674427) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=674427); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=674427)), "Apparatus for collecting atmospheric electricity" using a balloon, May 1901.
• Pennock, U.S. Patent 911260 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=911260) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=911260); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=911260)), "Apparatus for collecting atmospheric electricity", using one or more balloons, Feb. 1909.
• Pennock, U.S. Patent 1014719 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=1014719) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=1014719); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=1014719)), "Apparatus for collecting electrical energy", Jan. 1912.
• Plauson, U.S. Patent 1540998 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=1540998) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=1540998); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=1540998)), "Conversion of atmospheric electric energy". Jun. 1925.
• Britten, U.S. Patent 1826727 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=1826727) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=1826727); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=1826727)), "Radio apparatus" "to economize and conserve the current, and to regulate and clarify the tone", Oct. 31, 1931.
• Crump, U.S. Patent 2813242 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=2813242) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=2813242); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=2813242)), "Powering electrical devices with energy attracted from the atmosphere" using transistor circuits, Nov. 12, 1957.
• Ruhnke, U.S. Patent 3273066 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=3273066) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=3273066); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=3273066)), "Apparatus for detecting changes in the atmospheric electric field", Sep. 1966.
• Smith, U.S. Patent 3205381 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=3205381) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=3205381); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=3205381)), "Ionospheric battery", March, 1962.
• Kasemir, U.S. Patent 3458805 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=3458805) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=3458805); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=3458805)), "Electric field meter having a pair of rotating electrodes", Jul. 1969.
• Winn, et al., U.S. Patent 4025913 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=4025913) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=4025913); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=4025913)), " Electrical field sensing and transmitting apparatus", May. 1977.
• Colombo, et al., U.S. Patent 4097010 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=4097010) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=4097010); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=4097010)), " Satellite connected by means of a long (100 km) tether to a powered spacecraft", Jun. 1978.
• Carpenter, Jr., U.S. Patent 4180698 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=4180698) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=4180698); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=4180698)), " System and equipment for atmospherics conditioning", Dec. 1979.
• Shoulders, U.S. Patent 5018180 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5018180) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=5018180); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5018180)), " Energy conversion using high charge density", May 1991 .
• Shoulders, U.S. Patent 5123039 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5123039) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=5123039); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5123039)), " Energy conversion using high charge density", Jun. 1992.
• Mims, U.S. Patent 5367245 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5367245) (G.patent (http://www.google.com/patents?q=5367245); PDF (http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5367245)), " Assembly for the induction of lightning into a superconducting magnetic energy storage system", Nov. 1994.

Other

• Traun's Forschungs laboratorium, GB157263 (http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB157263&F=0)

Reddi 12:43, 13 Jan 2007 (EST)