Monday, March 26, 2012

How make electrical energy from starfruit (Avverhoa bilimbi)

Starfruit which in Latin is known as Avverhoa bilimbi are native American plants thatthrive in many areas that get direct sunlight but enough humidity. Starfruit is a hard-trunked plant reaches a height of 11 m. Usually planted in a quite place to get sunlight.The stem is hard and not much branched. The fruit is light green, oval of your thumb and sour taste. The fruit is often used for cooking, so often called starfruit or vegetable to clean the stain on the fabric such as brass and copper. The leaves are small, face to face. And star-shaped flowers are pink to purple. Picture below shows starfruit.


Ingredients and Benefits starfruit: leatherback wuluh useful as anti-inflammatory because it contains flavones. In addition, potassium smooth discharge of urine (diuretic) that can lower blood pressure. Starfruit also able to remove phlegm and reduce heat. The fruit contains substances: acid-potassium-akolat. This is one of the usability of starfruit out as an alternative energy source.

Starfruit that thrives in the yard, can be transformed into a substance capable of decomposing produce alternative power, amid complaints of residents will increase electricity costs. To create electrical energy, the first star fruit commonly used as avegetable is mashed to take water. Furthermore, using soil media placed in a glass of mineral water is used, water is injected star fruit taste.

Furthermore, each cup containing soil mixed with star fruit juice was associated with aseries of copper wire and zinc plate, the electric current to flow. The result, the energycreated by the voltage listrikpun fairly, ie up to 5 volts, enough to turn on the lights. The resulting voltage is also greater than the voltage of the battery stone fruit.

Tools and materials needed:
1) starfruit
2) Blender
3) glass plastic
4) Land
5) Water
6) copper plate (the positive electrode)
7) Plate zinc (as a negative electrode)
8) Cables

Alternative ways of making energy from  starfruit :
1) Blend until smooth  starfruit  (so starfruit juice; ripe apple juice) to obtain awater-like fluid (without the fiber / pulp).
2) Prepare the plastic cups and filled with clay (not sand or soil containing waste). Glasscan be from of residual mineral water drinks.
3) Put  starfruit  juice into plastic cups that are filled with soil.
4) Arrange a row of glasses that have been filled with soil and juice starfruit

5) Create a series of electrodes to connect between the plates of copper and zinc plates using a cable (with cable approximately 15 cm each)
6) Develop a series of electrodes into the ground glasses have been prepared in advancewith the copper plate-plate arrangement of zinc-copper plates and so onso the glass will contain a composition of a copper plate and a zinc plate electrodes of different circuits
7) Prepare two sets of electrodes with longer cable and just use only one plate, one copper and one zinc. For the glass outer (first and last cup that has only one plate: the first glass plate of copper and zinc last glass plate) connected with a series of new electrode. The first glass with a series of zinc, glass last connected with the coppercircuit. End of this last series of two cables that will connect with the lamp will be lit.



8) Be simple circuit of this alternative energy generationOne glass can produce energy at 0.5 voltsso to produce a larger energy should add the number of glasses in the series to be createdOne glass of this series can last for about 15 days.
This electrical energy is created because starfruit has a high acidity level to be able to conduct ions and electrons are there on a piece of copper and zinc. Thus create an electric current. On average, 10 points starfruit is capable of creating an electric voltage up to 2.5 volts, equivalent to one dried fruit batteries. Even in his experience, the electrical energy of the star fruit vegetables can last up to one month old.

Development of starfruit as alternative energy sources must be developed because of the potential of the star fruit grown in Indonesia is very high. So later after developing alternative electric energy can be packed in a practical form of energyproducts like batery. So, it can be developed as one of the energy alternatives that impact electricity rates amid increasingly hard for small people.


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