VIDEO: Charge Your Phone Now! All You Need Is an ONION!

If you are desperate to charge your phone because of some unimportant reason and you have no power or maybe no charger then you would probably be desperate enough to search the internet and try any possible option so that you will never be in this horrible situation ever again.

When searching the internet you will find all sorts of weird methods from lemons to batteries, potatoes and yes, even Gatorade and onions.
While some might jump right at the opportunity, others are more skeptical about this.

Some of them actually work even though they seem clearly impossible, while others are elaborate pranks for people just like you who are willing to try just about anything.

Anyway, the only way to find out if it does or does not work for you is to actually try them all out and decide for yourself. We’ve seen things that are said to not work, to work and the other way around so there really is no other way than to test them out.

According to thoughtco.com, the hottest viral video of the week was posted by a guy who calls himself “Household Hacker” and purportedly demonstrates how you can charge an iPod by plugging its USB cable into a Gatorade-soaked onion.

Apart from stating that the power is produced “using electrolytes derived from Gatorade or Powerade which are then stored within the cells of an onion,” Mr. Hacker offers no coherent explanation for how this might work. Various folks who’ve tried it say it flat-out doesn’t.

Simple, low-power batteries can be made using common household ingredients such as a lemon, a copper coin, and a galvanized nail. When the two metals (electrodes) are inserted into the lemon, the acidic juice (electrolyte) facilitates the release of electrons which are conducted from one electrode to the other, forming a very weak current. Several lemon batteries hooked up in series can produce enough electricity to light a small LED.

As everyone knows, Gatorade contains electrolytes in the form of sodium, but I question whether the concentration is high enough to produce the requisite conductivity, let alone enough current to power an iPod. Furthermore, unless I’m mistaken the contacts inside a USB connector are all made of the same metal, copper, so no electrochemical reaction would occur and no current would be produced in the first place.

Finally, there is every reason to believe that the Household Hacker is playing a clever little prank on us. Among his previous “instructional” videos is one explaining how to build a High-Def speaker for under a dollar using a paper plate, aluminum foil, and a penny, and another on how to power a television set with one AAA battery.

Sure, there is a way for you never to be out of battery and to not have to deal with all of these things and go the safe route. Just buy an external battery, charge it and keep it with you at all times for this type of situation. If you really want to be safe buy the ones that are a bit more expensive but can charge your phone multiple times with the power they are able to store.