alt Hacker Newsyou still need too much surface area and too much storage to generate the amount of power needed
absent of a major breakthrough solar will always be a house/grid level technology, which is fine and works at scale
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bawolff • yesterday at 8:31 PM
I wonder how far you could get if you were really trying. E.g. raspberry pi, eink, etc.
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nickpeterson • yesterday at 8:01 PM
I think I saw an apple A16 takes about 8 watts, which would be about a square foot of solar panel. So assuming we keep making progress it doesn’t seem insane to me that a laptop where the back of the lcd is a solar panel would be enough?
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Sure, so a solar-only laptop is not practical, but generating the power in its battery on your roof is a solved problem.
This MOST process doesn't immediately look like it has home-scale applications (maybe in cold climates), but for heat to make steam, promising.