Episode 5 - Battery Ch-ch-ch-chattery: A Halloween Episode feat. Doug Laustsen

 

Is blood useful as an electrolyte material? Can Ana's husband Doug help us understand art? Is art even worth understanding? We didn't answer all of these questions but we answered most of them

Covered this episode: blood chandelier batteries, some aimless chattery about other subjectively distressing art, and battery/fuel cell concepts for medical devices

Sources:

blood battery art (including video) (the website mixes up anodes and cathodes so watch out for that (aluminum = anode, copper = cathode)) http://vtol.cc/filter/works/until-I-die 

paper battery that can use blood as an electrolyte: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/34/13574.full, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13754475 

blood fuel cell: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/fuel-cell-generates-power-from-human-blood