Q: There's people that are building hydrogen, sun and even corn powered vehicles as a source of energy. So why hasn't the government invested money into thuis little known are of science? Do you guys think the effect is a hoax or maybe it never worked?any answers would be greatly appreciated. I just found out about this effect through this website http://www.americanantigravity.com/searleffect.html
A: To demonstrate to yourself that there is ambient energy that can be tapped, try running a steel wire along a fence line, and then measure its voltage and wattage with respect to the earth. I have used simple testing equipment to test the electrical potential of a fence, not connected to any source of power, and found that the fence was generating as high as 3 volts, and as much as 7 amps at 0.4 volts when connected through a transistor to the earth. I never did see a practical application of this, but it does demonstrate that there is some energy out there that can be captured if we use enough material to capture it. But to be sure that fence represents a lot of material to capture so little energy. We have to find ways to capture energy with low material cost. If you can get Searl Effect to work, great. But this should be just a good simple demonstration first, not a lot of research, since most researchers will likely discount the idea as impossible.