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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.
I don’t think that little generator cares if anything is drawing power, it will just output what it outputs full time
30W is 0.04 HP. That engine is just way, way bigger than you’d use if you were designing something like this from scratch, I think. Like putting a truck engine in a go kart, and being surprised that uses a lot of gas.
One of my friends is homeless, living out of his RV. Rather than going to the library or some other third space to charge his phone, he runs his generator. Then complains about running out of gas.
With the amount of fuel that must cost it’s crazy not to get a solar setup going.
Or just get a couple power banks. Should get a couple full phone charges out of one of those.
It’s AI bullshit anyway
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” 😅
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?
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
That’s gonna be one unhappy hard drive, if it still has one.
