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- Jason: Brian do you know how batteries generate power?
- Brian: Yes, because I wish it.
- Jason: Oh good! Is it your midichlorians? Is that what does it?
- Brian: Yeah okay. Why do you have to make this a racist thing?
(Computer voice): The Modern Rogue tests battery life with physics
- Brian: Okay, so in all seriousness: how do you know, absent a battery charger,
whether or not the batteries worth a damn? - Jason: You drop it.
- Brian: Wait you just drop it? And then thats it? - Jason: Exactly. You can, based on its bounce,
tell if its been discharged to a certain point.
- Brian: Okay now I saw this animated gif of a battery dropping,
and everyone's like "Err its clearly dead" or whatever. Is that for reals?
Is there a chemical reason for that? - Jason: There is zinc in here.
Its more of a gel at first, and as it becomes discharged, it starts to turn into a ceramic.
- Brian: This is like the whole thing about telling a hard boiled egg from a raw egg
where its like you spin the raw egg, and it sorta like lazily flops around,
because there is this liquid inside. Where as a hard boiled egg will spin around super fast.
- Jason: I havent considered that, but I imagine there are some parallels.
- Brian: Yeah yeah yeah. So when its a gel, what is what? What makes a battery?
- Jason: Well you got your zinc in there, you have your magnesium dioxide. Theres a anode and a cathode,
- Brian: Woah woah woah professor! What is an Anode versus a Cathode?
- Jason: Okay, one of them negatively charged and one of them is positively charged.
- Brian: Okay got it. - Jason: Once you connect the two, it starts circulating
in there and it starts to turn the zinc into zinc oxide.
- Brian: Okay so the fresh battery is more gel or more ceramic?
- Jason: Its more gel. - Brian: More gel, so fresh batteries are more gel
which I would imagine if you were to spin it, it would slow down faster,
and I would imagine, I am just guessing here,
but if you dropped it on a hard surface, a fresh battery would not bounce?
- Jason: You are correct. - Brian: Good good good.
- Jason: As it turns into Zinc oxide, all of the gel starts to turn into ceramic with springy little links,
it becomes a bouncy lattice work. - Brian: It becomes a super ball?
- Jason: In fact, a lot of the patents for golf balls include zinc oxide to give it more bounce.
- Brian: Thats amazing! - Jason: Yes. A lot of people believe that
the batteries only bounce when they are completely drained.
But the study from Princeton has shown that that's not the case.
They actually start bouncing at about 50% of their drain.
- Brian: For the record, how cool is it that Princeton is spending money to find this stuff out for us, that is amazing.
Alright, so we got two batteries. Is it just as simple as just dropping it on the concrete?
- Jason: It is. You have to have the right surface.
This table for instance, is a little to bouncy, it has to much give.
Lets test it on a hard surface. - Brian: Alright you got it.
*Screeching of table*
Alright, so one of these is allegedly 100% fully charged, the other is completely dead.
- Jason: Completely drained. I drained it myself. - Brain: Pinky promise?
- Jason: Pinky promise.
- Brian: Okay what does that mean when you said you drained it yourself?
- Jason: You don't need to know. - Brian: Okay fine.
So dead batteries bounce, live batteries not so much. - Jason: Exactly.
- Brian: Okay here we go. 3. 2...
- Brian: I dont know if that was a big bounce or a small bounce...
- Jason: Its going to be relative right?
- Brian: I mean its like I, um, I dont know...
- Jason: Try the other one, you will see. - Brian: Okay.
- Brian: Holy cow! - Jason: Lots of difference right?
- Brian: Are you kidding me?
1... 2... 3.
Wow! That is dramatic
- Jason: Markedly different, and it works doubles A's, triple A's, C cells, D cells, and 9 volts.
- Brian: Dude, this is fantastic. Okay, so it seems like this doesn't so much identify a dead battery
since anything under 50% will bounce.
But, it does confirm a good battery.
- Jason: Correct. And again it is not a linear relationship, it could be 50%, 40% or even dead.
Anything under 50% is gonna bounce.
- Brian: Got it. So if it bounces, smoke that ounce. If it's flat, put it in your Walkman.
- Jason: You are on your own on this *laughs* Walkman? What the hell are you talking about?
- Jason: Alright Brian, can you tell everyone all of the reasons that they should use Square Space?
- Brian: Of course I can, why wouldn't I be able to?
- Jason: Are you sure about that?
- Jason: Okay, yep, get it right. - Brian: Alright, this is a bad idea... this is a bad idea.
- Jason: Be good at your job. - Brian: I am not gonna mess up a single take.
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