A new Invention: Earth resistance solution, Benz Fill

Years ago, a friend named Dan Haley was assigned in a government capacity to Brazil. While there, he and his wife gained many new friends. Dan used to come to our Vanguard Sciences Roundtables in Dallas that went on for about 10 years or so. Later, a select group of us would go to an all night cafe like Ihop or Dennys and stay up til the wee hours chatting and swapping information.

In one of these after Roundtable sessions, Dan told us he met an older woman in her mid-50s or so while in Brazil. She told him when she was a little girl, her parents owned and operated a multi-story apartment building and her family lived on the penthouse.

That in itself isn’t the remarkable thing. She told Dan her father and grandfather had invented a way to generate all the power for the building but sometimes it would slightly fail with brownouts.

When that happened, the father would make one of the children run downstairs to ground level, get the water hose and apply water to deeply grounded thick metal rods. Water was applied until power was back to full intensity and it stayed that way as long as the ground stayed wet and damp.

Antennas were on the top of the penthouse, attached to insulated cables connected to the metal rods in the ground below. Apparently the load was connected between these insulated cables and the antennas to efficiently capture electrical energy directly from the air.

I never forgot that story as there are numerous patents claiming to be able to do this, including Stubblefields’ Earth Energy Battery system. So the news item below caught my eye and became ‘worthy’ of posting with this anecdote. The image above is from the Prentice Patent.

“A Cameroonian Electro-mechanical engineer, Dr. Benz Enow Bate, has invented an earth resistance solution capable of considerably improving the protection of electrical installations. The earth resistance-reducing paste has been named Benz Fill, after its inventor. Benz Fill reduces the earth’s resistance to less than 0.5ohms, a value believed to be very appropriate for conducting excess or faulty current into the soil. This technology, the inventor says, shall greatly reduced electricity related fire hazards. The earth’s resistance is reduced by injecting Benz Fill into the soil surrounding an earth electrode. Dr. Benz’s solution has been described as a breakthrough. If the procedure is vulgarised technicians shall abandon the traditional charcoal and salt mixture. A practise which Dr.Benz Enow says has its limitations because the corrosive characteristic of salt always ended up rusting the earth cables, and destroyed the earthing mechanism. His new solution is not easily washable and will not corrode metals but ensures that the earth is not resistant to faulty or excess current.” - Source