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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus… the stupid, it hurts.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I looked up the page and it gets worse.

You will need to shop for a car inverter. Find one that is at least 1,500 watts, and it will help you power your refrigerator for up to five hours—usually without damaging your car battery. Considering how much food we keep in our refrigerators, a $200 car inverter is a bargain!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

While reading the question I thought: "That's not how Watts work", but then this "answer" hit...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Licensed Insurance Agent

seems legit

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

This post made me beat my head with a 2 by 4

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regardless of source, if your refrigerator is running you better go catch it.

Its stealing your food.

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

I was hoping for this old chestnut somewhere here

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reads like a shitpost. The math is eh, okay, but the explanations are totally wrong. I won't even try to figure out what "runs off watts" means.

Enough of any electricity source, using various converters can get any appliance working "technically speaking", but in the end the amount of energy available at the source and the rate of consumption at the end and any intermediates. So "technically" an AA battery can power an industrial electric press, but only for a fraction of a microsecond, using a lot of charge storing infrastructure and with a lot of changes to get the tiny bit of DC into the machine requires to operate, likely 3 phase AC power.

A proper explanation would say a lead-acid car battery provides power at around 12V and electric camping fridges nominally operate around 12V so you can connect them directly and operate it (so you can sorta say they both run off DC volts?). If not you would need a buck or boost converter. The available energy of the battery (Watt-hours is a useful unit here) and the consumption rate (in Watts) of the fridge determine how long you can use it on the battery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well on the bright side, these things will start learning from reddit. More garbage for us to chuckle at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Watt-hours

how hard is it to just use joules 😭 the consequences of non-metric time are grave

i'm just kidding btw, i know why watt-hours are used

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Saying "your fridge will run for 14400 seconds" isn't very intuitive for people unfortunately...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Licenced insurance agent. Not for long!

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

I thought America runs on Dunkin... (doughnuts)

No easy conversation from doughnuts to volts or amps. I give up. But with enough oxygen you can hear up pretty gud with a single doughnut. Then you could use a Stirling engine to pump heat from the fridge to the environment. Energy in a doughnut ~224cal according to Wolfram alpha. That's 940kJ. 940kJ/1hr~260watts which should run a fridge for 1 hr. However energy conversion is probably going to leave you with like 10% at most of usable energy so ~6 minutes run time. America needs a lot of doughnuts!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

My chickens say Shannon is full of shit.

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