{"id":26121,"date":"2024-06-03T08:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26121"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:18:42","slug":"why-can-you-get-elektrisity-from-a-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/06\/03\/why-can-you-get-elektrisity-from-a-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can you get elektrisity from a potato?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/aw06032024-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/aw06032024-03.jpg\" alt=\"Why can you get elektrisity from a potato?\" class=\"wp-image-26120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/aw06032024-03.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/aw06032024-03-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why can you get elektrisity from a potato?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I understand it the potato cannot generate power all on its own, it needs two metals to form a circuit (probably wires!). The potato is a battery that causes chemical energy to be converted into electricity. There&#8217;s a book at the ERC called &#8220;Fun Experiments with Electricity&#8221; that could be a fun read to further understand this phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I understand it the potato cannot generate power all on its own, it needs two metals to form a circuit (probably wires!). The potato is a battery that causes chemical energy to be converted into electricity. There&#8217;s a book at the ERC called &#8220;Fun Experiments with Electricity&#8221; that could be a fun read to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/06\/03\/why-can-you-get-elektrisity-from-a-potato\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why can you get elektrisity from a potato?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26134,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26121\/revisions\/26134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}