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Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 5 months ago by TimeNaan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 67 points 5 months ago (11 children)

It is interesting to see old tech having clever solutions for stuff like this, these days the answer is 98% of the time is to slap a CPU on it.

It's boring!

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 28 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Wait til you hear about all the different technologies we use to generate electricity

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

99% spinning a generator and 1% direct solar panels

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hey, hasn't that panel number been going up lately?

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Kardashev level 1 here we goo!

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

To ~~heat~~ power the super-AI!

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

yep, that’s right - ~~it goes in the square hole~~ we’re boiling water!

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[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it's not all steam

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

You're right! Sometimes we let the kinetic energy of the liquid water itself spin the turbine, when we're feeling freaky.

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[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

all of these, and gas turbines too, are synchronous. some wind turbines are almost-synchronous and some use giant inverters which is probably one of bigger mass uses of power electronics today

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's just turning water into steam again, isn't it

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