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Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I may be wrong but I believe Nikola Tesla was financed by wealthy New Yorkers after his separation from asshole Edison but they pulled the plug when they realised he was going to give away free power to people.

May be apocryphal but I think there was someone who invented a car that ran on water but big oil stepped in.

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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The water car is one of those great conspiracy theories that carries just enough weight to sound plausible.

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- untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  … Carries just enough water to sound plausible.
  
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xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How would yu run a car on water? Water is spent fuel.

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- Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you’re in a dry, hot environment and evaporate water in a swamp cooler, you lose about 2.3MJ/l, from which you can skim maybe ~10% with a thermocouple. If you’re charging a Dacia Spring consuming 156Wh/km, you’d have to evaporate ~30 liters of water to drive 100km.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization#Ot…
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator#Ef…
  ev-database.org/…/energy-consumption-electric-car
  
  But then, what if you bought solar panels and a wind turbine instead of thermocouples and water?
  
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burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Why Files has a good video on the mysterious deaths around “free” energy technology.

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The state of science education is so disheartening.

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