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 also, if there was an electric impulse device that existed this discussion wouldn't even be happening

it's not in the schools yet, it's still barely in the papers for a decade now

the em-drive stuff was at first poo pooed and then suddenly nasa started a research project, because it seemed to be true that these "electrons" were pushing matter around, and not just a boring electrostatic style ion drive, which has the fuel gas problem (and associated weight for launch)

if i were a working theoretical physicist with a lab where i could make all the coils and piezo things and whatnot that i wanted, i wouldn't be saying "it's all just ideas i have had from what i have read" and the stuff about solar-driven piezo action being involved in earthquakes is not trivial

this is a shit-ton of energy that can bump around the peta-tons of crust that move in an earthquake

this is energy, we can use this energy, before it induces an earthquake, if we can figure out how to make a contra-potential (positive) for the electrostatic force coming upwards from the ground, it's literally free energy from the solar system magnetic field sheet, same as solar energy uses photons to bump electrons around this is just catching the actual electrons our highly capacitative earth is being fed 
 💯 🙏 
 https://youtu.be/sOabkUn53B8

the earth discharges upwards too, not only does charge in the atmosphere go downwards

the earth is a giant capacitor and tapping the energy it absorbs is probably the end of the energy problem for us here on earth 
 I know it’s sooo fucking cool, but it would mean that we are 100% not in control which is why trolls hate these concepts 
 if you search youtube you can find videos where it is demonstrated that a flame is more conductive than normal air

this means that a flame is in a semi-plasma state, thus the decreased resistance

and thus, it also logically follows, that rock that is so damn hot it's liquid, is probably in a semi-plasma state, which means that it is conductive, and thus, my hypothesis is that this upward flowing volcano lightning is actually a negative discharge of earth's collected electrostatic energy, in to a positively charged smoke cloud, (usually)

it just seems DUH to me that if electricity zaps upwards from an erupting volcano, that probably there is jigawatts of electricity in the earth if we just knew how to make a positive charge pole to suck it up and catch that current and drop it in a capacitor/and/or charge batteries or pump water uphill or whatever 
 100% the earth is alive it has a plasma neurological nervous system is the best way I can explain it 
 all of the celestial bodies have an electromagnetic thing

the big absurdity of modern climate doomers is that only heat and albedo matters (how much we absorb and how much we reflect of heat) but negatively charged dust is key to cloud formation, water does not form droplets without negatively charged dust to stick to... and cloud formation itself stops albedo anyway, as most of it is reflected back upwards due to total internal reflection of the water droplet's high refractive index

it's the same kind of phenomenon as crystallization, the crystals always form on some tiny bit of garbage with the right electrostatic field around it

i for one am keeping my ears open for clues about how you draw electrons up out of the earth deliberately, because drilling holes and sticking long metal rods down to conduct this electrostatic charge (yeah, i am thinking what these nerds are calling "electric fields" are really the same thing as electrostatic) and how to catch that in a giant array of capacitors and then discharge it slowly into batteries or drive pumps to move water so the energy can be stored later 
 Ok I have some ideas too, you need a very specific type of jungle at a high elevation 
 Before we harness it can we just figure out the mechanics first? 
 that is necessary first step, really, it's just the question of what you can do to create a massive positive electrostatic charge on a material so when a conductor is connected to a negative charged object the current jumps through the conductor and you get your discharge 
 yeah, damp ground is important, as is carbon levels, as both increase conductivity

but i think the hard part is how to make something that has the required positive potential at the upper end of your conductor

it obviously can't just be another capacitor, because that's what is at the other end, you see what i mean?

needs to be some kind of device that induces a massive positive charge somehow, or some material that you can induce this state repeatedly or cheaply

i mean, think like, why does wool carpet and many kinds of polyurethane rubber when rubbed, pull electrons out of the rubber and then discharge when you touch earth?

whatever this rubbing process entails, how can i get that passively, how can i make an electrostatic adsorbing surface dump all its electrons so it can suck them up from somewhere

the key would be how you can bootstrap that process, because i'm pretty sure you could make it run overunity so long as you aren't pulling more up than is down there