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How does it work? I could not believe it! The next time your battery dies, just grab those handy sweet potatoes you have with you.
I dare you to carry that around with you!
By ZackScott 1169446609 Reply Spam [+85] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHow long does the battery last does the potato have an infinite charge life or is it just temporary
By JihaD^ 1169669832 Reply Spam [+17] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHow long a potato battery will last depends on a lot of things. First, it will only be "used up" if it’s actually hooked up to a wire. If it’s not hooked up to a wire, it will theoretically last until the potato goes bad. Also, it depends on how much zinc you have, because the zinc gets used up in the reaction that powers the battery. If you’re using a piece of metal that only has a little bit of zinc on it, then it won’t last very long at all. But if you use a big, solid piece of zinc, your battery could go for a really long time! It also depends on the potato - some work better than others. If you want to know exactly how long a specific potato will last, the only way to find out for sure is to do an experiment and try it out.
By pg4cazm 1169682358 Reply Spam [+13] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI could use pennies instead of potatoes according to you? Oh and is there a catalyst that would make the zinc last longer?
By metsfanalex 1169687276 Reply Spam [+4] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removespeed up reactions, so it wouldnt make it last longer lol
By C4 at the Door 1169791343 Reply Spam [+6] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveGood Point!. I would bow down to anyone that would carry around two potatoes in their pocket.
By kamkam 1169557942 Reply Spam [+11] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removedo it if i didnt have a AAA
By koolaidslammer 1194050427 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removevideo done by kipkay!
I wonder where does he find stuff like that...
He'll just hide them in his pants xD
What will the women think though?
i have those speakers
and use that to carry the potatoes around. One on each side. Then, if I'm ever hungry...
By kipkay 1169470451 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveYou guys are dumb, don't you know batteries are made out from potatoes?
By DucNguyen 1169679080 Reply Spam [+30] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveAre you really smart, Mr. Duc Nguyen?
By catacami 1197418561 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeducnyguyen nice comment
By wozy 1181965280 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow long does that charge last?
By Hotguitarist05 1169670549 Reply Spam [+13] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveYou're absolutely brilliant, I enjoy almost every one of you're videos. Keep up the good work!
By berr 1169682226 Reply Spam [+10] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removel0l i agree.
By bertolo1988 1169779447 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI thought that potato clocks and other powered things were common knowledge, didnt know it was so uncommon to know.
By C4 at the Door 1169791217 Reply Spam [+5] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecomment was halarious. the one about him eating them... u deserve 5 stars
By sparkster1010 1169680602 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei love your vids but all that power is saved power. Sorry!!
By cbrown222 1172702651 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWho needs batterys that you need to throw away! You can put 1 in each pocket and eat them when your done!
By Silent Civilian 1185949088 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWhich is Positive? How many volts are these and what what are the mAH?
By c4ss13 1181766593 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow long do the spuds last before the power runs out?
By hj99 1169781704 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove...
By GenerationX1X 1170334736 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethats pretty cool but not very portable!
http://s4.gladiatus.com/game/c.php?uid=30367
i did it , incredible
By jay ben 1169220126 Reply Spam [+9] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveJust stick the ear phones directly into the potatoes. They play their own music.
By matavin 1169611469 Reply Spam [+7] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveActually, if you insert 2 dissimilar metals into opposite ends of any citrus fruit, potatoes, sweet potatoes and many other fruits and vegetables, you will get an electric current. Do they not teach this is school anymore?
By Edoda Yona 1169221946 Reply Spam [+7] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveMan your beter than an encyclopedia !!!
By Mysteryman1 1169690397 Reply Spam [+6] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveBut keep this away from Iranian goverment or they might make a nuclear bomb out of it!
By Zaboon 1169664179 Reply Spam [+4] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNow Mr Potato Head can have a mp3 player!
With all his favorite hits! (potato hits that is) :0(
this was exacly my science fair project a few months ago, just i tried to power a christmas tree. Thats a lot of potatoes.
By xtrmn8r2 1169605275 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThat would be sweet
zzzzzzzzzzzz...
By FrankenPengie 1169786537 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow long that live ... and are they rechargeable
By doufmo 1169767425 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveLight your House with 1293817239817 Potatoes !
By Epkiss 1169702858 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecool idea. also you have the same iriver mp3 i got. but the idea of carring the potatoes everywhere... i don't know, maybe the girls would enjoy it. yeah, every single day i carry my mp3 player to school, the girls are asking me for it, can you lend me your "ipod"? you know
By Mel G 1169700361 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveRaymond? I thought you were doing re-runs... not potato science...
By Radiskull 1169688211 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removebut are the potatoes rechargebal also. and after we use the potatoes for the mp3, can we eat it after. or it's not tasty any more:P,
By nouh7 1169686105 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSeriously, Kipkay talks like raymond in everybody loves raymond. Soon I will post a video that will overcome kipkay's metacafe fortune.
By anaymissael 1169685983 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeshow me some method to run a pc
By IT warrior 1169675800 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou are making a lot of money with your videos, keep up the good work!!
By see it to believe it 1169674225 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHow long ??1 hour??or just some minutes?
By Chinese Boy 1169674033 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI use an onion to power my laptop & a watermelon to turn the T.v on. I need to do more grocery in case of a possible blackout.
By Zaboon 1169664014 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeit's great kip! kids today need to learn more science! Keep up the good work! 5 stars!
By jeff3230 1169483765 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhat is a galvinized nail?
By Gaucho_21 1169224344 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNice trick. You are trying to prove how galvanic cell works.
This is good but i supose you didn't go to school at the phisics
class. One of the basic condition in order a current to flow is that
the circuit must be "not open" (close).Your circuit is open because
there isn't any link between potatoes so the current can't flow.
Another mistake is that you must use different kind of metals.
Zinc is ok but the other electrode must be something else (you can
use copper). Appreciate your effort but your circuit is imposible to
work. Don't waste effort to rap ten times, is useless.(good answer for AborigenDM)
Cant work Its a Fake.. not a Circut, Try both nails in a lemon, that might do it.
By theZIGZAG1 1237641789 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNobody believe me when I told them that I did read "How to make the power for radio from sweet potato" from my father's note-book...long time ago!
By catacami 1197418987 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removekipkay!! you should have hooked a voltage meter to it!!
By koolaidslammer 1194050624 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou can use lemons... penny and a nail. plus with lemons you can connect them like batteries. nail to penny... nail to penny..
By shogrran 1192364773 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNot so goood maybe It's an lodye when he didnt have editing software?
By rimlanin 1191939532 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removekipkay....ur a legend
but i just got one question
do u always speak like that?
cause its really kick ass
thanks :P
how could it work without any salt bridge?
By curlybastard 1191518555 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveLol, you are awesome.
By skeddles 1190855093 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveOk now next time mp3 is out of batteries ill look for potatoes...
By kostas_gr 1190138624 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeall i can say is that potatoes are much cheaper than batteries...im not buying batteries again!
By seriousam 1190150522 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSorry, didn't work... I did exactly as in the video and it didnt work. First of all, I think the two ends should be in the same potato. Second, one end should be a galvanized nail and the other a copper wire or a penny. Third, a lot of potatoes have to be combined to get enough power for a MP3! I think this way it might work!
By mschutze 1184872592 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI did it with normal potatoes (is there a difference?) and everything I got was miserable 0,03V between the two wires. Putting in the copper wire in one potato and de galvanized nail in the other, I got 0,56V, still not enough to power a LED... Now I need to buy wweet potatoes, but I don't think it will work with them either.
By mschutze 1184871119 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethat's cool, energy from a potato, LOL!
By analie_bustos 1184112079 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveYou could make lots of money. Just sell potatoes as batteries.
By CVDo 1183930978 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHoly crap, those things powered the mp3 player AND the speakers? Very impressive!
By Siesna 1183267937 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNice vid ! Hey those "galvanised nails" are made out of zinc I suppose , no ?
And btw how much money have you earnt so far ??:-O
my friend did a video similar to this in the fact that the video is so bad it's actually funny
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/622951/do_you_want_to_get_yourself_hurt/
the funyny thing is that it's actually so bad it's funny
the batteries is under potatoes
By morax 1180465141 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveUse that on my Mobile Phone?
By skanda 1178728587 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow many potatoes do i have to take for my laptop
this potatoes are HuGe
look at his arm...
each potato is like 15cm loMG !!!!!!1
oi en ise ppuniofatsis
By psycho7 1175020522 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is impossible. It won't work. the is no complete circuit.
By Spillz411 1174888186 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThats pretty neat, could you like put the ends on your tongue and get power for it? Thatd be sweet i have to try it, nice video.
By ABloodyIrishMan 1174518265 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehe sounds just like ray from everyone loves raymond
By cornishman 1173528841 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI SWEAR YOU ARE JOBLESS PEOPLE
By GANXTER_1 1173453297 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeglobal warming? Solved
By kashmir44 1173124965 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveA brand new use for that old "BEER CAN HELMET", throw the potatos in there and keep your pockets free!
By Sny1487 1172390061 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWHO KILLED THE POTATO-POWERED CAR???????
By Sny1487 1172389949 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove.....he sounds like kermit the frog!
By fewdisgewd! 1171594920 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveAll electric sercuits must be connected in circle!!! Current goes from + to -. I dont see what joins this 2 potatoes (even if they are sweet).
I would work (may be!) with one potatoe + 1 copper +1 zink nail. But it DEFENETLY wouldn powre the speackers.
im gonna try that
By Mr Potatohead 1170801599 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveNOw i know!!!
that is why i see integrated potatoes when i open up my core2duo system...
man.. dun you have a patent on this? .. if so ..u shud sue ..microsoft....
Ok brilliant show man....but i don't think i will
carry potatoes with me......
Keep it!
though i would like to meet you on the street with the potatoes in ur arms just jogging. :))
they thought about a way to put the power of a bag of potatoes in a small box to carry with...... and they dicovered the battery; now we want to find a way to take power out of everything bigger than a football... hihihi- not to carry with only to have a hole in every french fries you eat???
By soldoutlaw 1170424031 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveCome on Kipkay, of all the great videos you've posted, you had to include a hoax!
Just like that Mysterious1 guy who posted "Candle Power - Who Needs Batteries" and filtered out all the debunker comments (including mine), are you turning into a magician?
good job Raymond!!
By what goes around... 1170339528 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow that is possible?
By Ktomi 1170338061 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove...he has earned more than $15000 from these videos... his pretty much abt to pay off his mortgage from this stuff... Now thts wt i call a hustler...
By GenerationX1X 1170335267 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is real people, we had this in school at 10th grade in Norway, the potatoes does not make alot of power.
And for those who think this is just some fake stuff, because if this was true, all people would use potatoes to power a light boulb or an computer , then its wrong because as i said a potato does not make enough power to power that things, then you need alot of them.
This is real, and its a good video to show you how to do that, and we all know we dont go with 2 potatoes in our pocket to power your mp3 player.
Thats why we have batteries =)
I thought I'd make Sweet Battery Pie... ugh- a bit to acidy for my tastes.
By triton2toro 1170220820 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHow did that work? for the potato battery to work, the potatoes would have to be linked to create a complete circuit. I see he used 2 potatoes because theoretically, 1.5V DC is the max voltage you can get from a single cell. And if im not mistaken, the little mp3 player he had takes 2 AAA right? So what part of the potatoe is the negative pole? the Nail or the sour cream?
first, energy from lemons and now from potatoes... I'll now buy vegetables and fruits instead of batteries so that i may eat them after use ;)
I'll try this soon :D
for all them poor people who find their iPods' battery lasts about a minute, just carry a couple of potatoes around
By ederd89 1169996293 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethis is so cool... except that nobody's gonna carry the potatoes around
By eternalzul 1169942157 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehave to get off my ass one day and actually try one of them.
Well done. Keep up the good work.
they look like disturbed penisses
By blubbercruncher 1169580071 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove+ and - ? right potato is - left + :))))
By zipomiro 1169233974 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhy arn't U Electrocuted when you get next to an outlet, Next time at least connect the two potatoes togeather.
By JDC100 1244036549 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveIf this is to work, it would take several potatoes linked is series. Electricity doesn't magically flow through the air. Come on, pick up the potatoes and lets see the electrodes piercing the potatoes from the bottom. Maby you have magic Air where U are and electricity flows through the air. Why arn't U electrocuted when you get near an outlet fool.
By JDC100 1244036454 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveYou all really think that potatoes are powering his MP3 player? That answer is a big N-O. If you remember in the video, he says he has some trusty speakers, right? Those speakers are plugged into an outlet and that is what is really powering the MP3 Player! Ha!
By appleguyforeternity 1243251011 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveIsn't the circuit supposed to be closed?! I mean a wire linking the potatoes...
By mireazma 1241031905 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removebut y din't he mention bout how long it lasts
By stab_86 1211258601 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei got an idea from it, with little experiement it may be able to run a car
By aminnagpure 1210349432 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI don't see how this works you don't have a full circuit the potatoes aren't connected to each other. The only reason it is playing is because there is some stored energy in the mp3 player probably from a cell battery because that set up would not work.
By McFugger 1208489712 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeis that real??or trick??
unvilibable
I can't believe it. Imagine how God created things for many purposes like this. This is AWESOME!
By Slickerson 1189779685 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhy dont you just move to Idaho! ;D
they got a lot of good potatoes for ya!
thanx for the video though.
How does it works??????
That's cool!!
Now I will buy 1 Kg of potatoes instead of batteries :P
5 stars man :)
Did this in like 10th grade science class, just not with an mp3 player as they didn`t exist yet
By naqproductions 1181429235 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou too kipkay...this is our skool band...they are quiet ...
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Good choice with the iRiver. They rock. They're bigger ones beat iPod any day.
By levelthreeninja 1173012755 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveGalvanized nails contain zinc , and this is what should react with th potatoes and produce energy but I don't think it wil produce enough and so fast . I believe that the speakers are the source of energy and you're tring to fool us .
By littlemike 1171737287 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveDAMN WHERE DO U LIVE NEAR A NUCLEAR REACTOR ????
By 23432342 1170692894 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeonions are more power than potatoes
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By Nutz90 1182039579 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is how they teach the 3rd world countries to make nuclear bombs....holy shit.....sweet potato bombs...you get a -1 dude...its stupid!!!!
By Fritz9111 1175058219 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is just a way of making money out of stupid people !!!!!!!!Stop watching this stupid video.......It will never work people!!!!!!!
By Fritz9111 1175057762 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhat ive dune is takun tu sweeet putatas n powered this heer duhickey wit tu speeekas.
By McAsshole 1170105655 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSo you went to ninth grade too?
By mamabunny 1169239418 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecheck this out http://www.metacafe.com/watch/666001/you_must_see_this_guy/
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