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- dietprozac, on 11/24/2008, -9/+89How much energy did it take to produce that Powerade and how much nitrogen-enriched synthetic fertilizer did it take to grow that onion, and then how much gasoline was burned transporting both to this kid's house? All just so he can charge his iPod for an hour? This is what is wrong with the state of environmentalism today- people just don't think things through, and are unable to see the bigger picture. You can see a direct parallel in the ridiculous practice of turning corn into ethanol. It would me much more efficient for him to just plug it into the wall, or if he is so concerned, invest in a small solar charger.
- stuartjmoore, on 11/24/2008, -2/+77"So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time."
- Vektuz, on 11/25/2008, -3/+43I dont think the environmental approach was really the point of the article, as much as being able to power your device with vegetables.
- Jeffler, on 11/25/2008, -1/+30This should be from the onion, considering its a hoax.
- DeFex, on 11/25/2008, -2/+30This is bollocks. fist of all you cant make a battery with the anode and cathode made from the SAME metal. such as the TINY connectors in a USB cable.
Second of all USB uses 5 volts. the highest voltage cell i know of is 2V from a lead acid battery. so you would need 3 onions even if it did work and the onion>tin plated copper battery actually worked. (and there is no way you could get enough current anyways)
If you saw a potato powered clock. those clocks are supposed to run for years on a 1.5V AA battery, and they hardly use any current. using 2 DIFFERENT metals in a potato, you could do it (long spikes, not a tiny usb connector)
It may be possible that the circuitry in the ipod senses noise or something from the onion and lights up, but thats probably BS as well.
Last time i read something so stupid was "If you microwave water and let it cool down, it will kill plants if you water them with it"
why the hell do people waste time making fake "science" just to get youtube hits? there are lots of cool real science experiments.
maybe its religious nuts making bogus science so people will try it and think science doesn't work. - Mier, on 11/25/2008, -1/+23Buried as inaccurate...this was done on Mythbusters and it was *****.
- nshady, on 11/24/2008, -5/+26Science is awesome.
- colinjnk, on 02/25/2009, -4/+20Am I the only one who thought someone attacked an iPod using an onion?
- DonJuanAussi, on 11/24/2008, -7/+20What scares me is the complete lack of intelligence shown. This is proof that Idiocracy hits the higher educated as well as the lower educated.
Who here can tell me how to find the "right side" of an onion? Because woe betide anyone who pokes a hole in the "left side" before poking a hole in the right side.
Then this 21 year old does not even question the use of the "Brawndo". Adding salts to "toilet water" would have the same effect without the packaging and cost. I suppose that "electrolytes is what onions crave".
Not to mention the fact that it is link stolen. - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -3/+16i'll digg this once he can get the onion to sync his music, calenders and contacts.
- scoottie, on 11/25/2008, -4/+15welcome to 5th grade science class. are we going to be suprised if we see this done with a potato?
- fluidfoundation, on 11/24/2008, -2/+12This story makes me miss Mr. Wizard's World.
- awsftball13, on 11/25/2008, -1/+11http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2007/11/27/charge- ...
- mafiax, on 11/25/2008, -4/+14HOAX!! Go try it if you think it'll work.
- bsou, on 11/25/2008, -4/+13why not use an apple?
- dandyrubich, on 11/24/2008, -7/+16buried for old news...seen this about a year ago
- keithjinternet, on 11/25/2008, -1/+9No, you are!
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Science - Disgod, on 11/25/2008, -1/+9No, but I like your thought process. Very literal.
- shck, on 11/25/2008, -1/+9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX6-jZpXDp4
Busted!
err...Buried! - Syric, on 11/25/2008, -5/+12Well if he happened to have the onion handy, I don't see how it's any more wasteful than plugging it into the wall. If he made a practice of buying large quantities of onions on a regular basis to use just for this purpose, you might have a point. And there's nothing that says he can't eat the onions after draining them of electricity (although they do have some sports drink flavor).
- Locke23, on 11/25/2008, -2/+9@Syric, it's an allusion to the movie "idiocracy" in which the future generation drink an energy drink called "Brawndo" instead of regular water, which they refer to as "toilet water"
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+8This kid is retarded. The net production of energy nowhere near equals the amount used to grow it - fuel, wages, human energy, water, electricity - what have you. Welcome to our new age of environmental political correctedness. Just because its not a traditional energy source doesn't make it more efficient.
- broncoelway, on 11/25/2008, -0/+7HouseholdHacker is fake. All of his videos are fake and are meant to make a fool out of people.
I am ashamed at everyone here who thinks it is real.
I thought digg was smarter than that. - Gnar04, on 11/25/2008, -1/+7i like the part where i saw what you did there
- mrsteveman1, on 11/25/2008, -0/+5not to mention the cost of onions, which is more than the cost of the electricity they could possibly put out.
- etx313, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6But your USB cable smells like buttered ass.
- Syric, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7Potatoes and bananas work great too. And without the energy drink.
- vault, on 11/25/2008, -5/+9Leave it up to an environmentalist to see the glass as half empty.
- broncoelway, on 11/25/2008, -1/+5Finally someone figures it out. It is fake. That fraud householdhacker on youtube first posted this. All of his videos are fake. It is the same as breaking open a 12V Battery to get button cells...etc.
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -1/+5I see what you did there. Facebook should be linked to as well. Hey everyone, nobody actually gives a ***** what you're doing.
- Shaman760, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4I thought this was an Onion story.
Edit- sorry, my stroke of thought had been begotten by others... - FTLJohnson, on 11/25/2008, -1/+5BURIED AS INACCURATE (and potentially destructive to your stuff!)
Just like last year when these jerks posted a video that could potentially destroy an ipod, (when they told people to plug one into a speaker made of aluminum foil and a penny) I debunked them, and posted a link to REAL science showing how to make a REAL speaker from household materials.
Well, since THESE idiots are making front page of Digg again, I figure that AGAIN, I will post a link to how to ACTUALLY charge your iPod from produce, for REAL, using the REAL and actual science.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/How_to_ACTUALLY_c ... - samssf, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4Science is awesome, the article is lame. Buried as inaccurate / lame.
- void, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3EDIT: Thank you pirate bay
- jugglingjon, on 11/25/2008, -2/+5Great, now Apple is going to start including onions with all their ipods, except you won't be able to replace them yourself, and they'll fail pretty regularly.
- spyd4r, on 11/25/2008, -2/+5Yet he probably leaves his desktop PC on 24/7 ;)
- cryonix, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4thats what I thought.
along with where are the anodes and cathodes? - fucknuggets, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4I swear this story is stolen. I remember reading something very similar a few years back.
- fadingsignal, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4I came in here say exactly that, but you did it far better than I would have! Dugg.
- Groovydoo, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4I agree with DietProzac - Has anybody ever seen what a lithium mine or a cobalt mine look like? Then look at how the battery waste is handled; batteries are not green and neither are onions when it comes to generating electricity.
- HaSatan, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4Its got the Electrolytes that iPods crave!!
- boulderbum, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4This is a pretty well known (old) hoax.
If you check some of lifehacker's more recent videos, you'll see that he "charges" his iPod with a lump of Play Dough that he sculpted into the YouTube logo. - Tishiablo, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3Yeah.. 100% of household hacker's videos are fake.. There was even one that "showed" that you could power a tv with a AAA battery. Oh, and there was that other one: making a tazer with your ipod's headphone jack. I can't believe people buy into this *****.
- oldcrows40, on 11/25/2008, -3/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPJeDssBOM
This is a how to video on how you set it up.
It was first done by HouseHoldHacker about a year ago. - Aciid, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2Myth busted!
- FTLJohnson, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3Pardon me if I don't consider it to be "the best" when ***** convince people to do things that could potentially damage people's several hundred dollar electronics.
- studdenfadden, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2It does not work at all: http://science.howstuffworks.com/onion-power-ipod2 ...
- scoottie, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3i would watch reruns of that show if they would rebroadcast
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