Believe it or not, yes, your average beer can make enough electricity to power an LED!
Next time you have leftover beer, you now know you can recycle energy. Don’t forget that you can also make battery power from lemons, see here for that.
The equipment I used; A test tube rack I built myself, test tubes, a beaker, a galvanometer, a resistor, crocodile clips on wires and a Light Emitting Diode. The electrical cell’s construction was based
Think of a battery as a small power plant that converts chemical energy through a reaction into electrical energy. First of all there is the container (1). This is a steel cylinder housing the cell’s ingredients.
Then you insert the positive element of the chemical reaction, which is a mix of finely ground Manganese dioxide mixed with conductors (like Carbon) which carry a naturally occurring electrical charge. This is called the cathode, and it is molded inside the empty wall of the container (2).
A separator paper is inserted to keep the cathode from touching the
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-vyqBp_g0
Well, CES 2010 was pretty darn big and 3 days of walking didn’t help me but it looks like Shinymedia bloggers got a good demo of Yogen Eco Chargers, good! I missed their booth because CES was just so freakin’ huge but next year I will be more prepared.
You can get it here for $39.95 at the YoGenStore.com.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bys3uWtstz4
Guess what, I finally made it to Las Vegas, a day before CES 2010 Exhibition officially opens. The only “bad” part about the trip was that I got stuck in a room with really bad cellular broadband signals. Well, I might just have to ask the hotel for a room at a higher level, I think several big buildings are actually blocking the cellular signals here at Luxor. (Even the free hotel wired Ethernet is crap, as slow as my broadband card that doesn’t get enough signals.)
Nevermind my internet troubles, I am sorting to offline blogger tools like
I thought my Eee PC 1000HE got plenty battery life at about 9 hours but Sony Vaio T laptop (which is only available in Japan as of now) touts as whopping 17 hours of battery life!
Of course, this would come at much higher price than let’s say you can with an ASUS UL30Vt series laptops, which get a good 6 hours on a full charge.
Sony Vaios were once at the top of netbooks before there were any netbooks. Perhaps now they will be making a comeback although I think they
Back in 2007, we posted a video from MIT showing that water could possibly be used to power batteries. Well, within months, a Japanese company NoPoPo came up with water-powered batteries that can even use your own pee to power them.
Now, this water-powered flashlight is available, all powered using NoP
Fixing most watches involve two things, either a spanner wrench or a simple tool to pull the back out. Well, if you happen to replace those batteries on you expensive watch all the time and pay at least $10 to the watch repair shops, there’s a better way. You can learn how to make your own spanner wrench custom0-fitted to your watch so you can replace the batteries yourself. (There’s also a guide on how to make a plastic spanner wrench but probab
UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) is a great way to insure that none of your real-time applications shut down while working if the power goes out for some reason. Of course, UPSes aren’t cheap these days and they can cost you an arm and a leg but there’s a UPS hack that can help you get more capacity and bettery life by adding car batteries to it. What a great idea huh? Your new hacked UPS should last you at least 3-20 times longer.
Now I have a great idea for all those UPS companies, they can
I just lost my Palm Pre USB cable and ended up spending $100 that I didn’t need to. I guess the retail stores STILL don’t sell the Palm Pre USB cables, what a bummer.
Well, if you have a Palm Pre, prepare yourself against such loss by getting these on Amazon for only a buck each! Also, there’s an emergency double-A battery charger which might come in handy for all your traveling.
I don’t think this hack is practical for most people as netbooks can charge your USB gadgets anyways but for those of you who get stuck in an island somehow and end up with a netbook battery and your cellphone dies, you can use this netbook hack that shows you how to hack a USB port into a netbook battery
. Boy, that was a long sentence…okay i know it’s a run-on sentence with 2 ands….
