hi I understand you'd like to learn
about bad batteries you're weird that
way I respect that fine with me
it's an ancient battery found around
Baghdad the current capital of Iraq and
an ancient city in the old person when
Parthians rule dated around 2,000 years
ago according to Wikipedia it's a set of
three artifacts found together a ceramic
pot around 14 centimetres tall a copper
tube and an iron rod it was told that it
might have contained vinegar or grape
juice this stupid thing is that people
just assume this thing was a battery
because it resembled a modern battery TV
and YouTube channels encourage such
false information for view saying
ancient people may have been powering
the lights or did electroplating what is
it so hard to teach facts that you have
to promote pseudoscience so what happens
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ideas that may seem out there unless you
have a TV show promoting her
make-believe mumbo jumbo I'm telling you
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back to the battery ancient people
didn't have access to fancy technology
what you think they could observe
electricity yeah I mean sure the obvious
effects of electricity were always
present since the beginning of time but
it's not like people could generate
electricity on demand sure sure so for
as long as there have been fabric or
wool rubbing against body or whatever
which is like forever people have been
able to generate electricity but how
could they know what they're generating
is the same thing they are seeing in the
sky
okay okay so they look very similar but
building a battery requires a whole
other level of knowledge hey would you
like some lemon with your
funny I guess building a batter he
doesn't require knowledge all you need
is to put two different conductors in an
electrolyte like lemon juice vinegar or
saltwater people have been building it
accidentally for ages the clues about
electricity were always there and
generating electricity was always so
easy it makes you wonder let me tell you
how batteries work so every element or
molecule has a different opinion about
electric charges some of them like more
negative stuff and some of them more
positive stuff not that they actually
take charges from the environment
because everything naturally likes to
stay neutral and doesn't want excess
charges but they are their favorite
charges from afar like hey you negative
electron mama I see you're standing in
your corner of your host atom
unappreciated yeah I know I have a bunch
of electrons which I recall in love
but I want to make you mine I want you
to come a little bit closer this is the
reason why when we rub PVC to fabric for
example PVC Steel's electrons from the
fabric and because there are non
conductive the charges get stuck in them
and so we have electrostatic charge same
thing likes to happen between conductors
except electrons are fluid in these and
don't get start so they remain neutral
but because one of them likes electrons
more than the other one it makes a tiny
difference at their Junction this is
when we have thermoelectric effect that
happens when we join two different
conductors at a single spot if we
measure voltage at the end of conductors
we have like micro volts between them
because some electrons move from one of
them to the other and as the temperature
goes up the voltage Rises too and that's
what we use to measure temperature now
imagine we have put two different
conductors called electrons in a
conductive liquid like salt water called
electrolyte that has positive and
negative ions the electrodes are
eyeballing their beloved charges not
doing anything but just watching this
tension between material creates a
potential for energy between terminals
then suddenly you close the circuit the
negative electrode says damn you
negative mama I need you closer to feel
your juicy electron the negative ion can
now come close to the electrode and
repel the electron in the electrode and
release its electron into it and become
neutral ah hi yes
dang babe since when you became so
neutral I think we should see other
atoms the neutral atoms form their own
molecules and leave the scene what that
repelled electron is in the other
electrode now which attracts the
positive ions
Oy anyone wants an extra electron me me
and the positive ion becomes neutral and
goes away too and this cycle continues
until all ions in the electrolyte
disappear and that's the basic structure
of a battery there is a potential energy
in a battery between electrodes and
electrolytes that can dissipate in a
circuit in non-rechargeable batteries
chemistry changing the battery is not
reversible and you have to throw them in
the recycling bin what in rechargeable
batteries passing current backwards
through the battery restores its
chemistry so I guess an iron rod inside
a copper part field with vinegar or
lemon juice is a battery point I
admitted this vessel was a battery made
2000 years ago but it was an accidental
battery back then nobody knew it was a
battery see if we read the voltage
between the terminals we read like 0.4
volts there is a table showing the
different potential of different
material you see the potential
difference between iron and copper is
around 0.4 volts but for example there's
ink carbon batteries we make or around
one and a half volts let's see how much
current it can generate when shorted Pam
hey you went up to like 0.2 milliamps
and dropping quickly nothing too
significant this is absolutely unuseful
for anything
ancient 2,000 years ago then you have
this guy putting in series like 10 of
these batteries which are like hundred
times larger than the original Baghdad
battery putting them in series increases
the total voltage to like six and a half
volts that drops quickly when a two volt
LED is connected to it because the LED
barely turns on and he concludes that
generated energy is useful we know as a
matter of fact now that the Baghdad
battery actually works and what do
mainstream experts say they argue that
even though it is a battery
such low voltage is not capable of doing
anything useful and this might seem like
a good argument but really it is a
stupid argument as if LED is an ancient
technology and some people claim they
used it for electroplating
like coating another metal with gold
using electricity yes that battery
generates electricity but unless you put
hundreds of these tiny garbage batteries
in series and parallel to create enough
energy you can't do [ __ ] with them what
you must understand is that being able
to understand you can put your circuits
in series or
and that one increases the voltage and
the other one increases current requires
a whole higher level of electrical
knowledge they didn't even have the
copper pipe exposed so they could
connect it anywhere it hands me a
battery if it is missing the terminal
and they didn't even know electricity
runs through metals so far all ancient
people had seen was that rubbing wool or
cotton on their body or whatever
generates electricity if it was me I
would think non conductors are the best
way to generate electricity and transfer
it not metals and even if they had seen
the effect of electricity generated by a
bad battery they would have thought of
it as a chemical reaction although all
chemical reactions are also electrical
trades between atoms they didn't know
this so it was impossible for the
ancient people to know they made a
battery although they indeed made a
battery what the energy of a single cell
was so small to be noticed as anything
usable they may have made a battery but
they didn't invent the battery for
example if I'm trying new tea recipes
and accidentally make a mixture that
tastes like booger but it's the cure to
cancer and the world's hunger if I don't
know what it does it's not an invention
I would throw it into garbage because of
its taste now you might ask if it wasn't
a battery what was it for I'm hundred
percent sure I don't know what it was
for but my guess is you know when you
leave your low-quality spoon in yogurt
for too long and the yogurt starts
tasting metallic it's because of some
similar chemical reactions so maybe they
put wine in it and the reaction enhance
the taste of wine or maybe they thought
leaving vinegar or juice in copper and
iron added healing powers to it if you
drink it I don't know now don't let Iron
Man's wife know about this soon she'll
be selling back dog battery juice that
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