detwaft

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Battery lifetimes are specced as 80% capacity remaining. So a 300 mile range becomes 240 miles. Still highly usable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

“Physical release”

heh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bottom text made me laugh. Win some, lose some

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1.5kWh of energy, not power.

And it’s not lifting 500 tons. Each bucket weighs 500 tons (regardless of boat or no boat, due to displacement physics), it is in almost perfect balance. The motor simply has to rotate the mechanism against frictional losses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, people frequently get it wrong and when they are dismissive about it, they are demonstrating their lack of willingness to educate themselves.

It may seem like semantics to quibble over technical language but if I ask someone to pass me a saucepan, when I want to use a frying pan, then it’s pretty stupid of me, isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I’m only an amateur but I’m happy to give it a go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole premise of asking basic questions is flawed. A wiki is perfect for answering 95% of peoples questions, so do that instead.

Discussion forums are great for complex, esoteric issues. But few people have those. Most have basic questions, so if you want bland content for the sake of it then go right ahead. Bye bye signal to noise.

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

Linking to reddit? Blech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nice tin-foil hat you have there

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

People talk a lot of insurrection but it’s very easy to sit on your ass and say “fuck the establishment” and feel like you’re doing something. When in fact, the platform is the very opiate that stops people from doing anything worthwhile

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, I’ll be on peertube then. My adblocker stays on.

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