So to be frank, the invention of Earthlight™ has been somewhat of a slow-burner of a wild ride. Not exciting enough to warrant a full-blown dramatization, nor mundane in the slightest. It didn’t take years of education or research teams in lab coats. It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time, with my interest gone full-blown passion project, with enough resources and support to get the ball rolling.
Like many, I lost my job to Covid. But unlike many, instead of experiencing hardship or scarcity, i was blessed enough to be given the freedom of time and lifestyle to be able to follow my curiosities and passions. After about a full year of being unemployed– traditionally speaking–and after a lot of reflection and meditation, I developed a sudden and keen interest in alternative energy. It seemed to me that a lot of the weight of human suffering and environmental devastation could be unburdened if the energy that makes up our world and our universe could somehow be harnessed–even in slight– to provide a tiny amount of useful, continual electricity to meet even the slightest of our demands.
I’m not talking about “free energy”. Such a thing does not exist. I am talking about minuscule electrical sources in nature. Advances in wind, solar and bio-fuel are fantastic and accelerating. So is our ability to store electricity. The problem with solar and wind is the fact that they are not continual power sources, respectively. In my summer of research, I scoured for possible solutions. I learned how to build and improve crystal cells. I did crazy experiments with a tesla coil. My housemates would relish the times I disappeared into my work desk for a few days and re-emerged excited with a promising new creation.
I’m not a scientist. I owned a landscaping company in Alaska for over a half decade. I went to college to be a writer. As I kid I used to take apart every single broken electronic I could get my hands on to see how it worked. Now somehow my childhood passions are partly combined and reignited. I used to play in the dirt when very young as well. Well it’s still pretty much my favorite activity.
It’s kind of one of those projects where you feel that it is doing you, instead of the other way around. Due to the time and quietness that I had been afforded to me amid our collective global calamity, certain dots were able to connect at the right time and place and well– there you go. That’s just how life is sometimes.
Well the project has been consuming much of my time and resources but it is one that I feel very strongly about. It is both powerful and important and i need to see it through. Solutions to problems that plague us can be found right below our feet. Soils are the answer and green power is the answer. Earthlight™ is where they combine to dazzlingly useful effect. It’s like a microbial fuel cell but different, simpler, and with real immediate utility. I cannot find another thing like it in existence and oh have I been looking. I just see larger setups with poorer results.
The project has gone (run me through the dryer) in phases. Testing, design, patenting and the production process were the first priority. Many nights working in the garage– the stuff of startup romance. Many things were learned and changed and that garage time was invaluable. Today there is a working production process and assembling line. The instructions (soon available online) could have been edited thousands of times… on the fly due to new discoveries and technical tweaks. The website has been slowly improved and updated. Now we are socially networking and we have an instagram, it’s 2022 and the cat is out of the bag now.
Now we are ready to build a community and start a living soil revolution. Looking forward, lots of new information, tips and tricks will be published. I’ll try to branch out a little and do some videos for you guys as well. That ‘resources’ page won’t be a ghost town for much longer. Supporting documentation is coming. Our business phone line is now active. We are a very small grassroots organization with a big heart and big dreams and we will always try to stay focused and do things differently so be please be patient with us.
The Earthlight™ is a very special item on a very special journey and thanks for coming along for the ride and what a privilege to bring it to you all. Let’s change the world together!
Thanks four your enthusiasm and patience,
-Devon (Inventor and CEO (but not the creepy, evil kind. Think more humanitarian than capitalist)) 🙂
