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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Solving too many mysteries is not a complaint I have for the scientists... Not having free energy yet is

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not having free energy yet is

Have you not noticed the bright ball of gas that lights up the sky during the day?

It bathes the earth in free energy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will consume the Earth to settle the debt we own him.

[–] Decoy321 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you have to put energy into getting that energy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if you are a plant.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried plugging my phone into the elm tree out back. Turns out it doesn't work, and also it wasn't an elm tree, it was the neighbor, and he was pissed when he woke up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the elm tree

Well, there is your problem, it should be ash for apple products and Birch for Android.

If you are lucky and have a eucalyptus near by they work for all phones.

[–] FuglyDuck 1 points 1 year ago

Potatoes work better.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 5 points 1 year ago

That's why we've been trapping all this extra energy! Free real estate baby. It's just good economics.

...I've just been informed that DC is now underwater

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 1 year ago

Failing that, you can always hook up to the neighbors power meter;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only for the next 5 billion years! And then what???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If we haven't made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

nothing can be free in a capitalist society

unless you mean perpetual motion/magic energy in which case that was solved hundreds of years ago. It can't be done