1.5 hours runtime for like half a liter of gasoline?? That’s unbelievably inefficient. A half-liter of gasoline is like 15MJ, should power a laptop drawing 30W for a week.
One of my friends is homeless, living out of his RV. Rather than going to the library or some other third space to charge his phone, he runs his generator. Then complains about running out of gas.
30W is 0.04 HP. That engine is just way, way bigger than you’d use if you were designing something like this from scratch, I think. Like putting a truck engine in a go kart, and being surprised that uses a lot of gas.
1.5 hours runtime for like half a liter of gasoline?? That’s unbelievably inefficient. A half-liter of gasoline is like 15MJ, should power a laptop drawing 30W for a week.
Maybe it would be better with a fuel cell.
It’s AI bullshit anyway
I don’t think that little generator cares if anything is drawing power, it will just output what it outputs full time
One of my friends is homeless, living out of his RV. Rather than going to the library or some other third space to charge his phone, he runs his generator. Then complains about running out of gas.
With the amount of fuel that must cost it’s crazy not to get a solar setup going.
Or just get a couple power banks. Should get a couple full phone charges out of one of those.
30W is 0.04 HP. That engine is just way, way bigger than you’d use if you were designing something like this from scratch, I think. Like putting a truck engine in a go kart, and being surprised that uses a lot of gas.
anything but metric :/
I like metric fine, I just figure US audience is more familiar with small engine HP.
In the US, most small engines are rated in CC’s, like for lawnmowers, mopeds, etc. but then tiny motors are back to HP, like a 1/3 HP sump pump.
Makes sense to someone, I guess.