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Build Your Own Band-aid Fuel Cell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scab-power dept.

ptorrone writes "Here's how to make a fuel cell from a band-aid...This has got to be the simplest way to build a fuel cell from scratch. The design is ridiculously simple, whilst being effective - it will allow you to explore the concepts of fuel cells in a ludicrously simple way."

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  1. Re:meh by MrFlannel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, Oh!
    I've got one. Take a lemon, a piece of zinc, and a piece of copper...
    well, you know the rest.

    I know, it's not much. But it's hundreds of times more interesting than this article.

    It's like saying "We've used a band aid to hold together this light bulb, battery, and piece of wire. look! we can show you how to make a flashlight out of a band aid!" Quite deceptive indeed.

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    Clones are people two.
  2. In my grandmother times... by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gypsies used a similar trick to get free lunch, they called it "nail soup". Tell the host that you can cook a "nail soup", a soup based on a nail.
    Ingredients:
    - One big nail
    - Water
    - Groats
    - Bacon
    - Salt, Spices, Herbs
    - (...some more foodstuffs, I don't remember).

    The idea was to cook a basic groats-based soup with nail in it. The nail didn't provide anything to the soup except of curiosity factor that made the host to provide the rest of the ingredients. The gypsy would eat one bowl, the host another, the nail would be saved for another cooking of the soup...

    Here they use band-aid instead of the nail.

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    Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
  3. Re:Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    First get a band-aid. Make sure it has a large sterile pad area.

    Remove the backing from the adhesive and set it aside. Next, buy a fuel cell from the online fuel cell store. Then, carefully attach the fuel cell to the adhesive part of the band-aid.

    Finally, wave your wand while saying "A-la peanut butter sandwiches", and hey presto! it is done!