• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It seems like we could make this a lot more efficient by using pistons and having the sunlight push the pistons, turning a generator.

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        1 day ago

        In all fairness, you need to install a magnet at the far end and keep constantly pluging and unplugging it to generate power…

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        2 days ago

        If you plug a power strip into each one of those empty plugs, you could power the whole house!

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      I want us to build a Dyson swarm which is a bunch of ginormous pistons with attached even more ginormous solar sails. The solar sails pull the pistons which make generator go brr, and we become a K-2 civilization.