# A natural battery of sulphide and copper ores, with groundwater as electrolyte, supplies charge that drives…

> Disputed: A natural battery of sulphide and copper ores, with groundwater as electrolyte, supplies charge that drives the lights.

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# A natural battery of sulphide and copper ores, with groundwater as electrolyte, supplies charge that drives…

A natural battery of sulphide and copper ores, with groundwater as electrolyte, supplies charge that drives the lights.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Conductive ore bodies beneath the valley.
- Lights concentrated over or between the conductive zones.
- Self-potential and electric-field anomalies coinciding with sightings.

## What would rule it out

- Lights distributed independently of the conductive zones, or field measurements showing no anomaly at sightings.

## Evidence 1 for · 2 against

[The VLF survey found conductive zones, mainly sulphides, outlining a 6 × 12 km ellipse over the gabbro…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hessdalen-lights/evidence/EVD0D0NDW8Y2RRE/the-vlf-survey-found-conductive-zones-mainly-sulphides)

Supported

FOR

[A geobattery yields at most about a volt, about six orders of magnitude short of air breakdown.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hessdalen-lights/evidence/EVD0D0NDWGR5XD1/a-geobattery-yields-at-most-about-a-volt-about-six-orders-of)

Supported

AGAINST

[The original battery proposal (Monari and colleagues, 2013) was never published in a peer-reviewed journal.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hessdalen-lights/evidence/EVD0D0NDWRJ1P09/the-original-battery-proposal-monari-and-colleagues-2013-was)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[If some lights are a natural phenomenon, what produces them?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hessdalen-lights/questions/QST0D0NDNP02RD8/if-some-lights-are-a-natural-phenomenon-what-produces-them)

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