@Agent641 to Mildly Interesting • 8 months agoThe solar panels on top of my campervan have generated 1 megawatt hour of energy as of todayimagemessage-square51arrow-up1448arrow-down15cross-posted to: vanlife
arrow-up1443arrow-down1imageThe solar panels on top of my campervan have generated 1 megawatt hour of energy as of today@Agent641 to Mildly Interesting • 8 months agomessage-square51cross-posted to: vanlife
minus-square@ForgotAboutDrelink9•8 months agoThe gas analogy isn’t very good because cars are very inefficient at turning gas into power. So it’s substantially more than 31 gallons worth in a car.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•8 months agoYeah even a very efficient generator would probably use at least 90 gallons of gas to get 6 kW*weeks.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoYeah humans burn about 100W so it’s like 60 weeks of human metabolism, more than a year of food energy! If the van had a generator, like days of old, the sun has replaced like 3 full tanks of gas.
Quite a bit then?
The gas analogy isn’t very good because cars are very inefficient at turning gas into power. So it’s substantially more than 31 gallons worth in a car.
Yeah even a very efficient generator would probably use at least 90 gallons of gas to get 6 kW*weeks.
Yeah humans burn about 100W so it’s like 60 weeks of human metabolism, more than a year of food energy!
If the van had a generator, like days of old, the sun has replaced like 3 full tanks of gas.