Build Byron's original idea before attempting to build my derivative of his idea. As Bedini has said, "Don't alter my instructions until after you've followed them."

'Cuz...
I don't see any current being pumped from the ground on the right side of his schematic.

Instead...
I see the opportunity for a scant stimulus of power accessible from the ground on the right side. This stimulates a buildup of voltage within Byron's circuit. So, even before adding any voltage multiplier to the right of his diode bridge, his circuit is already capable of multiplying voltage.

All I had to do was eliminate his AC input coming from the ACMains, and retain its AC ground (on the left side of his schematic which is implied; it is not explicitly connected to his diagram) to allow for the buildup of voltage to have somewhere to drain itself (into) to form a pathway for current to flow through, either: a resistive load, or an inductive load, placed on this left-hand ground.

I have also had to compensate for the Earth's very stable and highly elevated capacitance, existing somewhere in the Tera Farad range (assuming a hollow Earth), by compensating with a very unstable, low capacitance of a pico Farad (give or take by a factor of ten) so as to provide for (incourage) over-reactance. Over-reactance is given scientific credibility by its allowance via Foster's reactance theorem (Wikipedia) which hints at over-unity due to negative impedance (aka, negative resistance, negative watts, etc) and the generation of power (in contradistinction to positive watts which indicates the consumption of power).

I like to measure volts separate from amps to see their individual wave forms and phase relations since this gives my non-logical right-brain the chance to absorb its characteristic behavior patterns (similar to how method actors, such as: Meryl Streep and Nick Nolte and River Phoenix, etc, "become" their character during the shooting of their film). This gives me something to analyze.

I also like to measure watts to see whether it is negative.

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Draft:Free_Energy_does_not_Exist#Capacitance_of_the_Earth

Or, ...

https://is.gd/freedraft

Chapter heading, ...

"Capacitance of the Earth"