1.5 hours runtime for like half a liter of gasoline?? That's unbelievably inefficient. A half-liter of gasoline is like 15MJ, should power a laptop drawing 30W for a week.
Maybe it would be better with a fuel cell.
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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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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
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should" 😅
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That's gonna be one unhappy hard drive, if it still has one.
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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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.
This one is real?
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