Potato Power

Eric's 5th grade science project was an experiment to see if, and how many, potatoes could power an MP3 player. He easily generated enough volts with four spuds, but alas, not enough amps to produce sufficient current to generate any tunes....

Instead of wiring hundreds of potatoes together in parallel and series, he opted to illustrate that the four-tuber series array was sufficient to power a small calculator.

Tonight's dinner side; mashed potaotes with a hint of zinc and copper....