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@c9a@cathode.church
Engineer, humanist, ever curious. Trans, queer, polyam, 30-something. Descriptivist in labels and in language. At home in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Also, I get really excited about emoji as a Unicode standard sometimes. Everything is complicated. Moderation in everything, including moderation. Nuance in everything, including calling for nuance. Profile picture: A selfie of me, a white person with long dark brown hair and painted nails, taking a selfie in a mirror. It's a small round blue-tinted mirror mounted in a metal box. Header image: a wide rectangle grid of large pixels of various colors, some linking together to form larger shapes. Some are solid colored, others are dithered in a 4x4 pattern of smaller pixels.
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@scott@carfree.city
@scott@carfree.city I think you'd run into output limits with any reasonably-sized battery. My medium-size battery (300Wh, about the size of a car battery but much lighter) has a max output of 300W with 500W surge. That's a quarter of a kettle's 1200-1500W. And boiling water is quite energy-intensive: boiling 1L of water from room temp takes ~100Wh, which is fully a third of my battery's capacity.
I discovered you *can* get little travel mug-sized kettles that run on 300W - I found one at a thrift store and bought it for the novelty, the one I have seems to work as promised, and looks similar to what you find if you search for "NiceWell Travel Kettle".
I'm a little wary of it, that's a lot of power/heat to be putting into an off-brand cylinder, but...might be an option!