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Added a paragraph on feasibility for production (lack thereof)
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jfowkes
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In principle, yes. The available power from such a battery is highly dependent on the design and install location, so I suggest that you research and experiment with earth batteries and determine how much power you can reliably achieve.

From that data you can determine a power budget and therefore the hardware and software requirements.

I imagine that any such battery will require regular inspection and maintenance, and that the performance will vary substantially with weather. Reliability and predictability are not going to be easy to achieve, I suspect.

I seriously, seriously, doubt that you'll be able to take this beyond "interesting demonstration of the idea" stage. It's not going to work as a product. Maybe an art installation or something.

In principle, yes. The available power from such a battery is highly dependent on the design and install location, so I suggest that you research and experiment with earth batteries and determine how much power you can reliably achieve.

From that data you can determine a power budget and therefore the hardware and software requirements.

I imagine that any such battery will require regular inspection and maintenance, and that the performance will vary substantially with weather. Reliability and predictability are not going to be easy to achieve, I suspect.

In principle, yes. The available power from such a battery is highly dependent on the design and install location, so I suggest that you research and experiment with earth batteries and determine how much power you can reliably achieve.

From that data you can determine a power budget and therefore the hardware and software requirements.

I imagine that any such battery will require regular inspection and maintenance, and that the performance will vary substantially with weather. Reliability and predictability are not going to be easy to achieve, I suspect.

I seriously, seriously, doubt that you'll be able to take this beyond "interesting demonstration of the idea" stage. It's not going to work as a product. Maybe an art installation or something.

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jfowkes
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In principle, yes. The available power from such a battery is highly dependent on the design and install location, so I suggest that you research and experiment with earth batteries and determine how much power you can reliably achieve.

From that data you can determine a power budget and therefore the hardware and software requirements.

I imagine that any such battery will require regular inspection and maintenance, and that the performance will vary substantially with weather. Reliability and predictability are not going to be easy to achieve, I suspect.