So that would be ~15 hours with the panels fully deployed? Honestly not bad for a mobile solar setup.

@NABDad@lemmy.world Technology Connections has a great video on these. They’re neat, but not great at turning energy into light, and not great for one’s health when used indoors.

What prevents the grapes from rotting?

Yes it is. One knife, two knives. (Red knife, blue knife :)

It would be so nice to return to a shaded, charged vehicle on a hot sunny day. Seems like a great idea.

I might be a chemist, and I’m not too concerned about the toxicity of the cesium carbonate. I’d be more concerned about the toxicity of the azide and azidirine intermediates. But if some “punks” can pull off a Knovenegal condensation and a Staudinger reaction in a bathtub, I would be quite impressed with their resourcefulness.

The molecular structure of the powder:

The notable thing seems to not be that it can absorb (and desorb) CO₂, but that it can undergo hundreds of cycles with little degredation.

It was the first meeting since she and the rest of her central Illinois community learned of a second leak at ADM’s carbon dioxide sequestration well beneath Lake Decatur, their primary source of drinking water.

My first thought: “Ah well, at least the local residents will get free sparkling water on tap, right?”

However, there is concern that pumping CO2 into saline reservoirs near subsurface water risks pushing pressurized CO2 and brine toward those resources, which would pose additional contamination risks. “Brine is pretty nasty stuff,” said Dominic Diguilio, a retired geoscientist from the EPA Office of Research and Development. “It has a very high concentration of salts, heavy metals, sometimes volatile organic compounds and radionuclides like radium.”

Oh. That is significantly less fun.

= 1 h

MW / MWh = 1 h^-1, no?

My Muji hoodie has withstood ~4 years of daily use, and is only just starting to fray around the wrist cuffs.

I don’t think there was a specific event for me. I just kind of grew up with it.

They should go global. Then they could call themselves the World Wind Empowerment, or WWE, for short.

Jokes aside, this seems like a neat initiative.

Thanks for posting the link. MVP of the comments.

Also, every rice cooker I’ve used has had a lid held down by gravity alone. It wouldn’t build pressure even if the vent were blocked.

Not entirely unrelated. Solar panels have to be manufactured somewhere, and I’m pretty sure China currently the top producer.

Yeah, seems like maintenance would be more challenging, but hopefully solar doesn’t need much?

With sunshine, this is exceedingly easy.

Sunshine yes, manufacturing less so.

*soon:

though the law has no hard timeline attached, so it may be a while before we see this happen.

Still encouraging that people are considering this, though.

Ah, makes sense! Glad to hear that battery tech is approaching the level where short-haul aviation is viable.

I’m curious why long-haul aviation is easier than short-haul aviation according to this chart. Why would that be the case?