Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/29/shocker-lemon-powered-batteri.html
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betcha limes could work…
ok maybe not:
Fruits and fruit juices high in acid
lemon juice (pH: 2.00–2.60)
limes (pH: 2.00–2.80)
blue plums (pH: 2.80–3.40)
grapes (pH: 2.90–3.82)
pomegranates (pH: 2.93–3.20)
grapefruits (pH: 3.00–3.75)
blueberries (pH: 3.12–3.33)
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at 5 cents a lime at my local grocery, certainly more economically feasible.
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Well, aside from the supercar. 
Though I gather there’s a cottage industry renting fancy vehicles to YouTubers. I wonder if they have to tell the rental company what they plan to use them for.
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Lemons power this battery in the same way that my car runs on spark plugs.
Hell yeah I’ll be that guy.
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In Mexico, they have oranges where the juice will eat through a Styrofoam cup. Try those.
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I am so glad we now have a generation where people do stupid stuff and we get to watch them fail instead of them taking the cowardly easy way out and actually, you know, doing the math…
/s
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Yep:
Trigger Warning: Income Inequality
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Welp, that was nauseating.
I can’t say you didn’t warn me though.
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It being in California, I would have been more impressed if they had used some sort of mechanical method for cleaning the solar panels using solar power rather than wasting water. Reminds me of when I would see people washing their driveways and sidewalks instead of sweeping (which, to be fair, I see a lot less of recently since I think the drought warnings have finally gotten through to people).
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Can’t believe I’m the first to say you shouldn’t buy one of these cars, you’ll wind up with a lemon.
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Reminds me of this:
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On the other hand, they don’t have to worry about scurvy.
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I guess a lemon-powered electric chair would be cruel and unusual?
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