Agent641@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 months agoThe solar panels on top of my campervan have generated 1 megawatt hour of energy as of todaylemmy.worldimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1442arrow-down15
arrow-up1437arrow-down1imageThe solar panels on top of my campervan have generated 1 megawatt hour of energy as of todaylemmy.worldAgent641@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·edit-26 months agoThat’s about 6 kilowatt*weeks or equivalent to 31 gallons of gas.
minus-squareForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·6 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-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoYeah even a very efficient generator would probably use at least 90 gallons of gas to get 6 kW*weeks.
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 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.
That’s about 6 kilowatt*weeks or equivalent to 31 gallons 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.