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Not bad for a non-physicist. I'll bet that there is even a real physicist out there somewhere who might argue along similar lines, but as you rightly point out, the effect is likely to be so infinitessimaly small as to undetectable. Also, it's likely that the quartz crystals would be randomly orientated and as such their piezo voltages would cancel each other out rather than accumulating any field strength.

P.S. Yes, I'm a physicist.

We had a similar discussion ages ago about the Glencullen standing stone in Co. Wicklow. It stands just under 6ft high, but is aledged to go down 20 feet.

Speculation, and taht's all it was, theorised about what would happen if you sank a solid quartz stone into an underground stream (of which there are many in the area): would stones etc. being bounced off it 'charge it up'?