h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They say you can generate electricity with a potato.
Enough to power a lightbulb.

~jwf~

How to generate electricity from potatoes.


1) Eat potato
2) Allow yourself to digest potato (converting starch into glucose).
3) Get yourself a rotor and dynamo kit. Turn the rotor thus converting glucose energy into electrical energy.
In summary: Potato into electrical energy.

Stone Aart, that was brilliant!

Alternatively:

1) Eat raw potato, thereby putting undigestible starches into the digestive system.
2) Buy rotor and dynamo.
3) Affix to anal region and produce a new form of wind energy.

B

... Add a spark plug and get a second-stage ignition booster

To the above prior to topic drift. Thanks.

I'm going to go into the power box and see if I can shut of the power (and may then label the fuses while I'm at it)

I'll try tweasering the clips - see if that works.

And on my trips to Homebase (no B&Q) I'll see if I can pick up one of them fancy doodad screwdrivers that lets me know if a contact is live.

I know the title was a bit provocative - I'm not afriad of the light being live - I just wanted to spice it up a little instead of "help me change a lightbulb" - which is my central puzzle.