Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThat doesn’t take much power, a solar panel or two should be more than sufficient, or you can rig something up w/ a defunct ebike (just run the motor backwards to generate electricity).
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 days ago
If the monitor draws even 20W, you’re gonna be tired of that eBike generator solution really quick.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The average laptop is 65W. So the 40 amp solar battery station I built with a 100w panel could run a laptop 7 hours a day without any issues at all. Plenty of time to get actionable information out of it.
MangoCats@feddit.it 4 days ago
Sure, solar works. And batteries work - for about 3000 charge-discharge cycles.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s… a lot of cycles. That’s almost a decade. Plenty of time to build an electric generator from scratch by traveling on foot to a copper mine and smelting the wire yourself. Unless you manage to pull an alternator from a car that can’t find gasoline and save yourself the trip. From that you could make a gravity battery or any number of other options.