Build Your Own Band-aid Fuel Cell

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."

Re:meh

[Nazo-San]

So basically this article just tells you how to hold the main piece into something (bandaid) that makes it look simple...

Read my website to find out how to do it using some scotch tape instead! (This was just a joke, I have no such site.)

Seriously though. There must be something I'm missing here, right? I mean, is there supposed to maybe be some kind of interaction between the methanol and the antibacterials placed on some band-aids or something? Surely no one is dumb enough that they'd come up with this whole article touting the use of a bandaid as being somehow simpler than anything else that holds it all together?

In my grandmother times...

[Vo0k]

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.