gas powered rule
2026-05-03 08:48 UTC
Replies (8)
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@panda@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-03 09:14
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” 😅
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@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-03 09:28
With the current energy prices for fossil, I feel like it’d be a smarter thing to charge them through off-grid solar. seriousness aside, this is cursed and awesome. wonder how long it’d take for the tank to run out after running modded Minecraft w/ shaders?
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@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2026-05-03 10:35
That’s gonna be one unhappy hard drive, if it still has one.
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@BB84@mander.xyz 2026-05-03 10:44
That’s unbelievably inefficient. A liter of gasoline is like 30MJ, should power a laptop drawing 30W for over a week. Maybe it would be better with a fuel cell.
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@crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-03 13:01
How off-grid are you really, if you still rely on a grid-connected service to get the gasoline? Should have called it diesel-punk instead
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@gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-04 14:46
Also just for reference, a human consumes about 100W of continuous power output throughout the day (24-hour cycle). You can calculate this easily. WHO recommends 2000 kcal a day, which is 8 MJ, divide by 86400 seconds in a day --> 100W average consumption.
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@gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-04 02:49
actually that reminds me --- there's a series on youtube about putting solar panels on machines and checking whether they generate enough power to power the device so they put solar panels on a car and check whether the car runs, they put solar panels on drones to check whether they fly would this work for a laptop? how much solar panel area do you need to run the laptop? I assume 30W power usage, that means you need 0.15 m² solar panels under full sunlight, my laptop has like 15x20 cm which is 0.03 m² ... so, you could only use it 20% of the time to give it time to recharge.
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@Flower@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-03 18:16
[This one](https://youtube.com/shorts/tCtfovKSdGg) is real?