Chapter 1 Potatoes as Other Point of Supply for Batteries
CHAPTER I Potatoes as Other Point of Supply for Batteries
I. Background of the Study For the past few years, researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of “potato power” to deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids. As a resident living in the Philippines wherein most perilous typhoons happen, Filipinos experience tough challenges like the cut off of the electricity or most people say “brownout”. People consider this as a struggle because of our every day progress. Shops like parlor, barber shop, bakery, computer shop, and more can’t open for the reason that they need electricity to power up their appliances. Compare to the famous shopping malls here in our country like the super market, glorietta, greenbelt, mall of asia, resorts world, and more have their own power generators to keep the system going. But for the people who can’t afford to buy generators for their house, they endure to the brownout. People can’t use the electric fan, toaster, rice cooker, light bulb, computer, charger, television, and other appliances without electricity. Whenever a typhoon or a low pressure area occurs on the Philippines, most likely there is a brownout subsequently. For example, Mr. Raganit, an architect is finishing up his plates for the house of his client until he reached the night. Then suddenly a brownout happened. Back when he was a high school student, he once made a project about on how to use potatoes as other point of supply for batteries to power up his LED lights. By that he has a light to finish up his plates. This was discovered by Luigi Galvani in 1780 when he connected two metals to the legs of a frog, causing its muscles to twitch. But you can put many materials between these two electrodes to get the same effect. Alexander Volta, around the time of Galvani, used saltwater-soaked paper. Others have made “earth batteries” using two
I. Background of the Study For the past few years, researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of “potato power” to deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids. As a resident living in the Philippines wherein most perilous typhoons happen, Filipinos experience tough challenges like the cut off of the electricity or most people say “brownout”. People consider this as a struggle because of our every day progress. Shops like parlor, barber shop, bakery, computer shop, and more can’t open for the reason that they need electricity to power up their appliances. Compare to the famous shopping malls here in our country like the super market, glorietta, greenbelt, mall of asia, resorts world, and more have their own power generators to keep the system going. But for the people who can’t afford to buy generators for their house, they endure to the brownout. People can’t use the electric fan, toaster, rice cooker, light bulb, computer, charger, television, and other appliances without electricity. Whenever a typhoon or a low pressure area occurs on the Philippines, most likely there is a brownout subsequently. For example, Mr. Raganit, an architect is finishing up his plates for the house of his client until he reached the night. Then suddenly a brownout happened. Back when he was a high school student, he once made a project about on how to use potatoes as other point of supply for batteries to power up his LED lights. By that he has a light to finish up his plates. This was discovered by Luigi Galvani in 1780 when he connected two metals to the legs of a frog, causing its muscles to twitch. But you can put many materials between these two electrodes to get the same effect. Alexander Volta, around the time of Galvani, used saltwater-soaked paper. Others have made “earth batteries” using two