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How to generate Potato Electricity in 4 Steps

You might be surprised but potatoes can make a clock work. No, it doesn’t mean they can fix them (not that I know of) but rather power them. When you think about it if they can provide energy to the human body, they might do the same for anything that requires electricity.
Generating potato electricity from something like potato may sound bizarre, but it's possible. Well, there are many people who are generating green electricity from potatoes for running small items like a clock or a small light bulb.

We all know that the scientists are trying hard to find alternate energy resources that can replace the thermal and the nuclear energies to generate electricity. This is to both save the earth from the negative impact of pollution as well as bring down the costs that one has to bear for the use of electricity.

People are trying new methods from using the wind to the solar power and some of these are even showing great results. There is a real issue on our hands and we need to keep trying in order to find something that can replace the conventional energy resources. The potato electricity voltage we know is not better than that a normal torch cell, but the principle involved can be of great use for the development of more efficient batteries in the future.

Let's look at the science behind this innovative energy resource :

Actually, is not hard at all to determine how to make electricity with a potato. Potatoes are made up of the following elements:

water
starch
sugars
trace minerals (plenty of ions)

Since potatoes are mostly water and have lots of ions dissolved in them, they can be used as batteries quite easily. Ions are particles with an electric charge (positive or negative) associated to them. Technically speaking you could use almost any fruit the same way. The ions can now be used to generate electricity by using electrodes.



So how do we use this logic to generate electricity from potatoes?

Essentially we want to turn the potato into a galvanic or voltaic cell. In this type of cell a chemical reaction takes place which results in electricity being produced.

Step 1- First, generating electricity from potatoes means that you would need:

a large potato
two wires
two metal rods (at least)

Following the typical method that is used in a physics lab to generate electricity, we would need different metal rods that can be used as electrodes or carriers of electricity. One of the rods can be a galvanized zinc nail and the other one a cooper nail, penny or anything made of pure copper.

Tip: The conducting rods need to be of different metals. For instance, one rod can be zinc and the other can be copper.

Step 2- Insert a zinc nail and the copper object into the potato battery (that’s how we call it for this experiment).

Make sure the zinc and copper objects are separated from each other. The farther they are from each other, the higher the voltage that is going to be generated.

Step 3- At this point you connect one end of the first wire to the zinc nail and the other end to the negative terminal (-) of the light bulb or clock if you prefer. Then use the second wire to connect the copper rod (or penny) to the positive terminal (+) on the bulb or clock. At that moment the electronic device should turn on (as long as the potato has plenty of ions).

The electrons will start moving from the zinc nail all the way through the wire into the electronic device and from the device to the copper object. The electricity will keep flowing until all reactants are spent. Pretty much when all zinc atoms are oxidized to Zn ions and all copper ions are reduced to copper atoms.

Step 4- You might want to use a voltmeter instead of a clock or light bulb in the beginning to make sure there is enough voltage (potential difference) being produced by the potato to turn d device.
So when you are in place where there is no light u can use potato electricity to charge ur phone.




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mira4u:
lol later they will say he is not corrupt. See indirect bribe.

U make me laugh, sister this is welcome devt. God bless Nigeria.

Lokospirit:
For those of you clamouring for division of this great nation it is now obvious that the yorubas will never suffer because we have all it take to stand as a nation, our economy is already diversified, if its oil we dey, abi na cocoa we dey ,even cassava .so if u think u think are feeding the country no problem but don't forget that some regions fed the nation before now and your so called niger delta were not Cameroon then ,.....bunch of olodo.

Take it easy bro, we're one Nig

urbobo20:
mr dino, roungh and david is right our country is fantasticaly corrupt . i just hate this country with passion

Don't hate d country but d manners in which it is governed

Must we bring tribalism in everything?

Yes God exist

Kennedyiheme:
lol I'll rather cry in a ferrari....you can die a poor man if you want....your bible said solomon was very rich, according to freezes analyssi, solomon spent over 30million naira on food daily, 1000 wives...your bible still says "yet he was a wise man". Meaning you are foolish preaching about how to live moderately... You wonna die poor, its okay bro, your choice

Too Hard on him bro

Noted

Just watching.

Just watching

Another sentimental thread, Lord please help us

Sentiment every where, Lord please help us

Apelex:
I for buy you two bottles of bear...

Tanx bro. One love

princemillla:
God bless you .

It's has become a norm on this platform. May God heal Nigeria

Amen. One love bro

Fresh facts emerged yesterday that more than 60 top Nigerians may lose assets and cash laundered in the United Kingdom.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) may soon submit a list of those convicted, under probe, the fleeing suspects and those watch-listed to the relevant agencies in the UK.
The UK was said to be in custody of over £40 million stolen funds recovered from some Nigerian government officials in 2008.
This is apart from about £22.5million recovered from the Island of Jersey.
Of the cash, about £6.8million loot had been traced to ex-Governor James Ibori.
Some of those likely to be affected include ex-governors like James Ibori, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Joshua Dariye, the late Abubakar Audu, Chimaroke Nnamani, Lucky Igbinedion, the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and others.
Others are about 13 ex-governors on trial for financial crimes, some former ministers either on trial or under investigation, some indicted top bankers during the 2008 financial crisis.
Six of the ex-governors were alleged to have acquired assets worth £15million in the United Kingdom, while in office.
One of the governors allegedly paid £1.6million at a go in 2005 for a posh mansion in London.
According to findings, about 60 highly-placed Nigerians, especially politically exposed persons and their fronts, have assets and looted funds in the United Kingdom and Island of Jersey.
For instance, Ibori’s assets in the UK are said to worth more than $150 million. A former director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) owns a flat in St George Wharf worth about 450 pounds more than 10 years ago, while another top civil servant owns 1.65 million pounds Fulham property.
It was learnt that the decision of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to collaborate with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has dimmed the hope of the affected treasury looters.
A top source, who spoke in confidence, said: “With the pledge of the British Prime Minister, we will just go to our shelf and reel out the list of those with suspected loot and laundered funds in the United Kingdom.
“Already, we have the dossiers of all these suspects right from the days of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the EFCC chairman.
“We can talk of about 60 on our radar, including about 13 governors, former ministers, oil subsidy suspects, indicted top bankers and some of those involved in the $15billion arms deals.
“We will recover all the stolen funds. In fact, very soon, we may start publishing the photographs of the identified assets of some of these suspects.
“In fact, the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, met with the Special Fraud Office in London on Thursday.
“We can seize these assets under the Interim Forfeiture Order in Sections 26 and 29 of the EFCC Act.
The section reads: “Any property subject to forfeiture under this Act may be seized by the commission in the following circumstances- (a) the seizure is incidental to an arrest or search; or (b) in the case of property liable to forfeiture upon process issued by the Court following an application made by the Commission in accordance with the prescribed rules.
“Whenever property is seized under any of the provisions of this Act, the Commission may-(a) place the property under seal; or (b) remove the property to a place designated by the Commission.
“Properties taken or detained under this section shall be deemed to be in custody of the Commission, subject only to an order of a Court.”
The EFCC and the Metropolitan Police have been collaborating in the past few years.
The British government had, in 2008, expressed its willingness to return about £40 million stolen funds recovered from some Nigerian government officials.
A former Acting British High Commissioner to Nigeria, James Tansley, on September 27, 2007 handed over two cheques for more than $250,000 (£126,000, 29.3m naira) to Nigeria.
The UK Metropolitan Police had said the amount was only a fraction of the fortunes that the former Governor of Plateau State, Chief Joshua Dariye, and other Nigerian officials had diverted to London.
A cheque for $2 million belonging to a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, was also returned to Nigeria by the British government.
President Muhammadu Buhari had during the week pleaded with the UK to return stolen funds to Nigeria.
“I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of assets,” Buhari said a function in London.


http://thenationonlineng.net/global-coalition-corruption-diezani-ibori-dariye-57-nigerians-may-lose-uk-assets/

This days I hardly see post in any social media without quarrel, sentiment, tribalism, regionalism, religious bigotry n many more. How can we grow with these negative thoughts. I see no unity among us, d only thing that unites us is d name Nigeria, probably football n nothing more. D true change we want can begin with u and I. God bless Nigeria

dokiOloye:
True federalism is d answer.

Or confederation

This is not good for our country

PenSniper:
Let the government implement the report f 2014 confab for a start. Billions of naira was spent on it and all the regions and civil organisations in the country were involved in the excercise.

It is crass arrogance and unbridled pride to rubbish and sweep the report under the carpet by a minority.

The report, restructuring, regionalism or con-federation or this country will never know peace.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Dishonesty has been and continues to be used to govern Nigeria which is why it can know no peace or progress.

The census figure is a fraud. How can sane people use inaccurate statistics to plan and expect success ?

Nigeria's life-span ended in december 2014 which calls for re-negotiation where there is honesty but no one is talking about that.
Governing is not for bosses but for leaders. Nigeria has suffered the unfortunate rule of Bosses rather than Leaders since 1976 to date and thats why they will never get it.

For the avoidance of doubt, i am a bona fide Ooduan and have no pleasure in a fraudulent Nigeria.
Nigeria has become a depraved society where nothing, i mean nothing, works.

Between July 1976 and now, enough money has been stolen by a syndicate of the military, politicians and civil servants to make Nigeria three times better than Dubai. In 1976, Dubai was virtually a desert land.

While Dubai is governed by humans, Nigeria has been in the firm grip of animals in human clothing.

The other day, i saw pictures of certain locations of Lagos Island of just the 70s and i wept with nostalgia.
I remembered them all, still have them in my memory, including the LMTS ( Lagos Municipal Transport Service) bus. I wept for this country.
The eye-sores that we call mega cities today are nothing compared to the neatness and orderliness of those days as recorded in those pictures.

Every society strives for improvement but not so Nigeria except in everything sordid.

I want Oodua republic. Nigeria union has been a curse for the naturally-endowed rather than blessing.

Call me what you will, am entitled to my freedom of expression.

I feel ur pain bro. Confederation is d answer, let every region have their full autonomy.

kumakunta:
Please chase all the Oil companies out.

Thats not d best solution

No wa o, in my city. This is not good at all

Just watching .

Just watching

too bad

Area I greet. Wetin dey happen for jakpa Junction, people just dey run any how, traders dey rush lock their stores mopol dey there combat ready. I even hear gun shot. Who know d reason make e Yan

tdemo:
I did morethan this from okokomaiko to Agric during my secondary school days!!!! it's naija spirit... this no longer risk jare we ar use to it!!!!

Fallacy bro. It's risky

From all indication, the guy looks like Urhobo college student. Though I have not come across any one of them hanging on Keke like this in d city, but I don't want to doubt. I think this act should b condemned. D last administration provided school buses for primary n secondary schools students. My question is where r d buses? and where r d edumarshals that d state government employed to discipline students?
God bless Delta state,
God bless Nigeria

Please nairalanders living in Asaba, especially okpanam road should help us get a good photo of them.

Happiness87:
go closer and only seeing flags

I am carrying my laptop, u know that any thing can happen. Besides they have march towards government house while I face d route to my house.

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Mennnn, I could not get close to get a better picture. Those guys no get joy at all