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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Not having free energy yet is

Have you not noticed the bright ball of gas that lights up the sky during the day?

It bathes the earth in free energy.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will consume the Earth to settle the debt we own him.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but you have to put energy into getting that energy.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago
[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

I tried plugging my phone into the elm tree out back. Turns out it doesn't work, and also it wasn't an elm tree, it was the neighbor, and he was pissed when he woke up.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the elm tree

Well, there is your problem, it should be ash for apple products and Birch for Android.

If you are lucky and have a eucalyptus near by they work for all phones.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Potatoes work better.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's why we've been trapping all this extra energy! Free real estate baby. It's just good economics.

...I've just been informed that DC is now underwater

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Failing that, you can always hook up to the neighbors power meter;

[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Only for the next 5 billion years! And then what???

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

If we haven't made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.

[-] TheOakTree@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much sunlight we can convert into stored energy until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth's surface.

It's probably an absurd proportion of solar panel coverage.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth's surface.

I think I just found the solution to climate change boys 😎

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Surface area of the earth: 510,064,472 km²

So at any moment ~255..000.000 km² of the earth is hit with solar radiation. I think we have a while before it becomes an issue.

this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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