Yesterday "L" and I spent the day trying to make a battery out of lemons and limes. We failed. We were able to get enough voltage out the fruits, but apparently not enough current. Any thoughts on what went wrong?
We wired them in series and managed at one point to get the voltmeter to read over 3. At that point we tried to hook it up to an LED which worked with 3 volts worth of Duracell, and got nothing.
We tried wiring them in parallel too but that got us nowhere either.
I know, it sounds like a seventh-grade science experiment, but we plan on working our way up to bigger and better things. We were hoping that starting with the basics - power sources - we would gain insight in to the higher up things.
This is very frustrating when this doesn't work.
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Yeah, we started mushing but I think we didn't mush enough, and we thought that might be the problem. We still might. I emailed "L" a few hours ago suggesting that. The watch thing is also a good idea. I need to get a watch.
You think it will power my cell phone? It would be funny to have a backpack full of lemons hooked up to my phone. Maybe they can make bnluetooth lemons.
this sounds like that night when you were doing those kabbalistic incantations after drawing circles around cockroaches. except that this is completely different.
The only difference is that time it worked ;)
hey, i'd rather the roach be rid experiment work than the cell lemon/lime cell phone work. then again, if the cell works, you can always call the exterminator.
wouldn't this all depend on how often he uses his cell, shosh? i mean, if he uses it once a week for a minute or two, he could have it on "off" and it wouldn't matter. but, if a lot of lemon power is needed, might i suggest sunlight dish liquid? it smells very lemony, and sudses up quite nicely.
oh, or you could always use the pope mobile. or the oprah bus. or cindy sheehan's ego. yes, i really hate cindy sheehan.
You think I can make rechargable lemons, so that when the charge wears out on the lemons, I can just plug them in overnight or something?
what if you use the lemons while they are still attached to the lemon tree? if they're still growing, wouldn't that make them somewhat rechargeable?
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