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Potato-powered web server
- ORioN63 15y agoYou sir, just posted a potato powered server on hacker news...And I am actually laughing my ass off. Sad thing, that the actually potato powered computer, is now offline. I could see this roots/fruits/vegetables-powered Internet, grow on me(No pun intended...Ok, just a bit :-P).
- hassman 15y agoSome hackers installed linux on a potato: http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html
- wgx 15y agoGLaDOS: "Oh hi, how are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO." [1] [1 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-a-potato http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-a-potato ]
- zrgiu_ 15y agoTalk about green energy ... edit: could this work in any way with trees instead of potatoes? I bet they would last a lot longer
- ars 15y agoSee my other comment in this thread, but in short it's not powered by the potato, it's powered by the metal leads. A tree would make no difference.
- ars 15y agoBefore we get lots of comments on powering things with food: It is not powered by the potato!!! It is powered by the metal leads stuck into the potato! The metal oxidizes (burns) and releases energy. It would work just as well with salt water. The potato is simply an ion bridge (i.e. it connects the two metals together via a conductive path, and encourages/enables them to oxidize). If you had a time machine to 11 years ago you could tell him to just soak a napkin in salt water and put the leads in that and avoid rotten potatoes.
- kennywinker 15y agoBut does it scale?!
- 3am 15y agoThis is almost 12 years old...