Morbid Battery Uses Blood Electrolyte
Building a battery out of common household products is actually pretty simple. All that is required is two dissimilar metals and some sort of electrolyte to facility the transfer of charge. A popular grade school science experiment demonstrates this fairly well by using copper and zinc plates set inside a potato or a lemon. Almost anything can be used as the charge transfer medium, as [dmitry] demonstrates by creating a rather macabre battery using his own blood.
The battery was part of an art and science exhibition but it probably wouldn’t be sustainable on a large scale, as it took …read more
