Timeline for Is it possible to power an arduino-like device from soil?
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 12:44 | answer | added | argu sagturk | timeline score: -2 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 17:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackElectronix/status/843879095884812288 | ||
| Mar 20, 2017 at 17:20 | comment | added | StainlessSteelRat | It would make a good science fair project. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 16:10 | comment | added | analogsystemsrf | I've done bug battery, using rotten leaves between copper and aluminum foils. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 14:36 | vote | accept | Sergei Basharov | ||
| Mar 20, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | D.A.S. | Soil and special electrodes are a novelty but not a reliable or cost-effective long term solution. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 12:54 | comment | added | Dave Tweed | Burying electrodes in the soil is functionally no different from using any other form of "primary" (i.e., non-rechargeable) battery. The only reason you would do this is if there is some overwhelming reason not to use an ordinary manufactured primary battery such as a CR2032 coin cell. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | brhans | It seems to me that using a 'soil battery' and also trying to take soil measurements simultaneously from the same system would conflict. You 'soil battery' would be changing the electro-chemical composition of the soil you're trying to perform measurements on. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 12:25 | comment | added | pipe | Pretty interesting question, though. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 12:02 | answer | added | Sean Houlihane | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:14 | answer | added | jfowkes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:13 | answer | added | Olin Lathrop | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | pjc50 | It looks like the answer is "possibly", although for a very limited amount of current and relying on corrosion of the electrodes. I think you'd have to do your own practical measurements and research on this. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:01 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | Without knowing any of the engineering, you can still use the basic argument that if it were possible to get meaningful power from dirt, it would be regularly done. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:00 | comment | added | pipe | @SergeiBasharov I added the link to the question, feel free to change the sentence. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 11:00 | history | edited | pipe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added the link to earth battery to the question.
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:54 | comment | added | Sergei Basharov | I am quite an amateur in this area, but I found some info about these things are theoretically possible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_battery | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:53 | comment | added | Andy aka | Solar cells might be an option? | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:52 | comment | added | pipe | Uhm.. how did you figure you could get any power from the soil? Have you seen any other project even mentioning it? | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:50 | history | asked | Sergei Basharov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |