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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 64 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I have never seen the Arabic language translation of this meme but I immediately understood it from having seen the English version.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This guy apparently doesn’t understand the first and second laws of thermodynamics. However, in his defense, this is sorta how regenerative braking works, but with less complexity.

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 8 points 6 days ago

Regenerative braking was my first thought.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Most people don't. There is just no free lunch to ever be had.

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[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 64 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I had this exact idea... when I was 7. That was before I was introduced to newtonian physics.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

It's a good idea, even if it can be ruled out. That person should offer more ideas. All of those Newtonian physics people never seem to offer up ideas.

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[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wow, excessive emojis and em-dashes... Not ai at all

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My LinkedIn feed is like 90+% AI at this point. I don't know why anyone bothers looking at the "content" on that website anymore. I only see it just incidentally on my way to the job listings and I am always shocked at how terrible it is

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

with uBlock Origin you can just filter the feed

www.linkedin.com##[aria-label^="Main Feed"]

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why not cut out the middle man and directly charge battery 2 with battery 1? Switch and repeat.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

wow, you did not have to call out my subnautica in-cyclops power cell recharging stations for spare cyclops batteries like that

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Either he's lying about being a mechanical engineer or the barrier to entry to become a mechanical engineer is embarrassingly low.

It this guy seriously proposing a perpetual motion machine for the purposes of EV charging? Also not that it really matters but who the hell has range anxiety on an electric bicycle. You get 30 miles out of those things easily, what sort of bike rides is he doing where you have to recharge that more than once a month?

He should try recharging a solar panel with a light powered by the solar panel. Just achieving infinite power.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 days ago

I've gone as far as 55 miles in one bike ride, and hope to do a full century ride someday. 30 miles is not at all out of the ordinary for bicyclists.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (9 children)

30 miles is laughably low. A single ride would drain it for me. To go to store it would take 10 miles, not counting anything else.

[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I recommend going to a closer store.

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[–] needanke@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what sort of bike rides is he doing where you have to recharge that more than once a month?

My distance to work is 12 km one way, so your battery would be empty afer two days...

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[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Someone has been spending too much time on ChatGPT.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This has to be a parody account right?

[–] MBech 4 points 6 days ago

Either that, or he's not very smart, had a thought, poppet it into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT as it tends to do, affirmed his dumb idea, and he ended up asking it to make a Linkedin post for him on the idea.

I've seen similar stuff from students who think they've cracked how something works, only to be incredibly wrong, because they only know half of what they need to, but don't know enough to understand how little they know. It's part of the journey of getting sorta-good at something though.

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[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

Techbros rediscovering old principles, a tale as old as....well, since the tech industry.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

A mechanical engineering student that doesn't know the law of energy conservation?

[–] solariaseven@slrpnk.net 24 points 6 days ago

With this many emojis and em dashes, he's probably engagement farming using llm content, regardless of the thermodynamics gaps in logic

It's almost as if one object perpetually moves something that creates a form of motion perpetually to continuously move that first item. Like a continuous motion machine or perpetual movement apparatus. Something like that. I feel like my naming is close, though.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, many electric bicycles power themselves while going down hills or costing. As for the other idea that you could recharge them just by pedaling ... That exists already. Almost nobody wants it because it's easier to plug your bicycle in. The point of the electric bicycle is to do less work, not to do more. Otherwise you would get a regular bicycle because it weighs less.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

This guy is only telling us part of the truth. You actually need three batteries. The third battery is hooked up to a solar and wind generator. Only then can you achieve true energy independence.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Does he have a fundme or patreon page? I think it's worth supporting his research if it can be applied to cars and trains one day.

If somebody is an airplane engineer, is it possible to do something like that with planes? It would be great if planes could become environmentally friendly with such technologies.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There was actually a prototype environmentally friendly airplane designed and tested back in 2000 during a genocide in Yorkshire that I feel like isn't talked about enough. The plane, using bicycle technology, was successful in transporting all of the local populace to safe territory with the help of a veteran Royal Air Force member and an American entertainer posing as a flight specialist. Really an incredible story and there's still footage of the flight. but I don't know the status of the airplane today.

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[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hello, I am the owner of a large investment fund and I am willing to offer 1 billion dollars to develop this young man’s technology

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

There was this browser game (on the BBC website IIRC) with a Wallace and Gromit theme, in which you build stuff.
It had a level in which you make a vehicle-ish contraption and see how far it goes ^[or more like whatever contraption you can make to get the dummy to go as far as possible. Could even be a cannon, launching the dummy.]. I managed to setup a motor and generator in such a way that it effectively increased the vehicle's range by quite a bit.
I don't remember well enough now, but I think the generator didn't give as much resistance as the energy it was creating.

[–] RedSnt 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I had this idea 30 years ago lol. Bicycling in headwinds in windy and flat Denmark gives you a lot of time to think of dumb shit like that, like what if I put small wind turbines on my bike which generated electricity to give me a boost?

We've had windmills as part of the landscape here for a long time after all, so it wasn't exactly rocket science to think that one up.

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