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The Tiny Lemon Battery, and other designs for zero cost electricity and led light without batteries

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Here we make a battery trying to maximize duration and portability, that is quite solid too.
Also good looking and green ;)

Materials:

Each cell is contained in these small boxes I have found perfect for this purpose, and good looking too. These boxes are sold with extra leads for drawing compass (actually, you buy the extra leads, and you get these wonderful boxes for free)

Other materials you need are:

-Copper wire
-Zinc (you can get it from an art shop beacus it is used in 10x15cm sheets for carving)
-Some wire and solder
-a Led
-Sunlight(R) Active Gel Lime hand dish washing liquid, any brand would work, Gel instead of liquid will last longer, and green color is my personal choice ;)
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May 23, 2009. 9:44 AMverdastel says:
Wow! I guess you could make it 'greener' if you get the zinc off the casing of a dead battery :)

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