I'm only half kidding. I'm a bit of a prepper and I have lots of powerbanks and devices that charge from USB but besides idling my truck I really had no other way to charge any of them in case of a long-term power outage which seemed a bit of an oversight on my part.

Not like this solves the issue. 30 watts (under ideal conditions) isn't much but it's a start.

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[–] bassicvgyn@lemmy.vg 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In a situation where you don't have constant access to abundant electricity, you would naturally reduce your use of electronics quite a bit. An e-reader battery lasts a long time, so load it up with a bunch of good and useful books and that panel will be able to power it indefinitely. Winter is tricky, still it would probably be enough to keep it going with sparse use. Or you could rig up a bike-alternator-car battery set up. But you need to think about how much power you can reasonably generate and base your planned consumption off of that. This makes me sound like a big prepper, I'm not, but I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Wonder why...

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

An e-reader battery lasts a long time, so load it up with a bunch of good and useful books and that panel will be able to power it indefinitely

Paper books require neither and are almost equally waterproof. But i suppose if you already own both anyway that's a solid tip.

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A standard E-Book can store the entire Wikipedia, OSM DB, Wikisource and Wikibook contents on a single $4 128 GB (~1 million books) SD card, also having a good IPX8 waterproof class.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Paper books are fucking HEAVY and bulky. They're only practical if you don't ever need to take more than one or two anywhere. If you gotta be on the move, the extra equipment to manage the battery is much lighter than the books you would need to carry otherwise.

Another advantage to an e-reader is that I can remove the battery and it's completely waterproof, as long I completely dry it before the battery goes back in, it can get as wet as I need it to, no problem. Books don't have that option.

[–] bassicvgyn@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 month ago

I like e-reader for a camping setup since it is lightweight. You can also do a little cyber deck build and load up all of wikipedia.

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Mildew

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean… after society collapses, you can just raid a library for good old-fashioned paper books. Provided the idiots haven’t burned them for warmth.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever carried a backpack full of books? They're heavy af. Probably easier to just take over the library and move everything else there.

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solid plan… until I drop my eyeglasses 😉

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, my eyesight isn't really that bad...

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Solid plan, until your eyes fall out of their sockets

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

PLONK “My eeeeeyyyyes!”

LOL! I managed to briefly forget that Futurama did it better :-)