Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

dv said:

Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

What about wodka?

dv said:

Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

You need to watch sibeen’s video.

You are really behind the times here.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

You need to watch sibeen’s video.

You are really behind the times here.

I did watch that…

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

You need to watch sibeen’s video.

but it was too boring. I only gave it 20 seconds

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Some people, jocularly or otherwise, suggest that potato batteries could be used to produce significant amounts of electrical power, if you had enough potatoes.

Making potato batteries can be a fun sciencey activity for kids but the output doesn’t represent a net useful energy production. The key to the reaction is not the potato (which really is just a convenient holder of electrolytes) but the reactions happening at the metal electrodes. We only have copper or zinc etc because of energy expended in winning the metals from low-enthalpy ores.

You need to watch sibeen’s video.

but it was too boring. I only gave it 20 seconds

Sibeen says it was grouse.

That’s good enough for me.

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

You need to watch sibeen’s video.

but it was too boring. I only gave it 20 seconds

Sibeen says it was grouse.

That’s good enough for me.

I must’ve missed that memo. Since when did “sibeen says” become the new forum standard?

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

but it was too boring. I only gave it 20 seconds

Sibeen says it was grouse.

That’s good enough for me.

I must’ve missed that memo. Since when did “sibeen says” become the new forum standard?

Sibeen says it is

dv said:

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Sibeen says it was grouse.

That’s good enough for me.

I must’ve missed that memo. Since when did “sibeen says” become the new forum standard?

Sibeen says it is

I endorse this comment.

can ‘u be sure about all that
enough solanaceae you say
once they start collapsing under their own gravity
there should be enough light isotopes there to fusion for a bit
might be able to get some electrical power out of that