Episode 4 - Potatoes and Voltage

Today we're going to teach you a little something about voltage! We're also going to delve into all the ways we've been misled (by yours truly BUT ALSO BY A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE) about the humble potato battery. Other topics of note: weddings, the curse of knowledge, theory of mind, reduction potentials again, and battery efficiency. Sources: battery efficiencies: agazine-archive/advancing-li-ion_10006681/#axzz4QbD0S6qc research into catalysis of hydrogen reduction (aka hydrogen evolution): actually, why don't you just google it? there, now you've read some paper titles and you know as much as we do! (actually what the paper titles probably don't tell you is that platinum is REALLY a good catalyst but it's very expensive so that's why there's so much research into finding an alternative. Now you know!) comparison of the ability of metals to catalyze a hydrogen reduction reaction: other questions? let us know at batterychattery@gmail.com

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Episode 4 - Potatoes and Voltage is an episode from Battery Chattery by Hope Wilson & Ana Rigney.

This episode is 51:03 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2017.

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