atmospheric eletricity, the suppresed free energy of the ancients?

a reply to: EartOccupant

you can actually see an huge collector at the top left corner
the pins in the balloons work like mini-domes

a reply to: snowspirit

Static requires putting energy in, you get less back than you put in.

a reply to: schuyler

but it was something diferrent! nowdays technology works in the base of mundane power sources,wires and wifi
the ancients used only spires , domes and the air

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

in the past it was suspiciously easy to build amazingly detailed structures, nowdays we take years just to build ugly and boring concrete towers!

a reply to: lostbook

thanks!
and you are probally right, too many politics *facepalm*

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

it isnt actually static eletricity we are talking about here, its something else

originally posted by: Athetos
I came to ask the same question but you beat me too it.
Why can’t we find anything that was powered by this ancient energy.

a reply to: ignorant_ape

If a civilization suffered a catastrophic event that pushed them back to the stone age, what would you expect to find of evidence of them after 10,000 - 25,000 years?

Besides stone works?

Would you even recognize their technology if any parts of it survived?

a reply to: humanoidlord

No it wasn't. You are going to need to give some examples.

a reply to: gspat

Except he is talking about structures still standing that we know who built them, as in he said we had this technology in the 1700s. So your explanation doesn't fly.

What would they use electric for in ancient times begs the question "what did they use the Baghdad battery for"? It was definitely a battery, so what for?

a reply to: crayzeed

It was not definitely a battery. It would be a very poor battery. It resembles storage vessels for scrolls. It could have been for electroplating but I have never heard of any evidence of the technique being used there.

a reply to: gspat

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

take a look at how many greco-roman style buildings we had in the recent past

a reply to: humanoidlord

I don't need to, we can recreate all of them. Which one do you think we can't? We have moved on, just like we don't use arsenic as skin a whitener anymore.

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

there was an mud flood in the 1800's, this event is explained in my previous thread

a reply to: crayzeed

the baghdad battery is from the far past, so we dont know

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

we can recreate them, we just cant build them at the speed the ancients built them

originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: humanoidlord

my question - for all these " ancient electricity" claims - what did they use electricity for ?????????????

in the past I saw a book wi a pic
Egyptian engineers working inside a pyramid with a 'magic light' that had some kind of cables hooked up

google 'Dendera Light'

sorry don't know source

wait, here's one

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In a video devoted to the claim on Strange Mysteries, which is based in the US, the narrator said: "Hieroglyphs depict the ancient Egyptians using electricity with a light bulb.

"But how could electricity have existed over 4,000 years ago?"

The hieroglyphs in question were discovered in the temple of Dendara.

The narrater adds that inside the temple: "Lies some fascinating hieroglyphic pictures on the wall...pictures that uncannily point to the egyptians using electricity.

"The evidence is almost irrefutable."

originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: gspat

Except he is talking about structures still standing that we know who built them, as in he said we had this technology in the 1700s. So your explanation doesn't fly.

There seem to be many structures that have been attributed to cultures that might be incorrect.

Many examples around the world suggest that other, less advance cultures simply took over/appropriated pre-existing structures/locations that were already ancient and simply patched them up to make them usable for their needs.

We're still not quite sure who built Gobekle Tepe (sp?) or who buried it.

Conventional Egyptology is slowly coming around to the geologic evidence that the sphinx, and it's enclosure, is much older than previously assumed. There are other locations in Egypt that show the same levels of erosion as well.

The findings of Petrie in Egypt of the cores of boreholes with an amazing feed rate, even for today.

There are lots of examples. And no - NOT ancient aliens.

I've firmly come to believe that there has been at least one catastrophe in the past that hammered us as a species back into the stone age, and we keep rebuilding as best we can, when we can.

Static Electricity has the inherent problem that it is of a high voltage and very very low current when tapped. This phenomenon has no way of being utilized because any useful amount of energy ( voltage multiplied by current ) suffers from the voltages being pulled to near zero under load.