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Warding Off Mosquitos Is Easy. Just Start With An Orange…

Unplggd offers a great little how-to for anyone hates mosquitoes (read: everyone) and is sick of buying new candles and cans of spray. All you need is some orange peel and a spent plug-in repellent you might have lying around.

July 30, 2011
Science

Orange Juice Is Artificially Flavoured To Taste Like Oranges

How do you make orange juice? Simple! Squeeze oranges and drink. How do big box companies make orange juice? Complicated! Squeeze oranges, remove oxygen, re-flavour the now flavourless orange juice with artificially orange “flavour packs” and… drink? Uhh…

July 1, 2011
Science

Orange You Glad Advertising’s Going Eco-Friendly?

For Tropicana juice’s latest ad campaign, they went back to basics and filled billboards with hundreds of oranges, the acid of which generated enough electricity to light up the billboard.

April 21, 2011
Science

How Many Oranges Does It Take To Power A Neon Billboard?

It’s no secret that the energy stored in citrus fruits can generate an electrical current (a favourite demonstration of school science teachers). But what happens when you use 2500 oranges? You can power a neon billboard, apparently.

February 12, 2010
Science

How Many Oranges Does It Take To Power An iPhone?

We’ve all seen clocks running off foods like oranges and potatoes, but what kind of citrus power does it take to charge an iPhone? This ever-so-strange, ever-so-enchanting video reveals the answer.

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