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Solar charger for PSP and DS
- Thread starter ziran
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The Main Event
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Kung Fu Jedi
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I saw these a few days ago and laughed at them. 8 hours to charge? What's the point! If this worked in like 3-4 it might be useful in some situations.
Nathan Barley
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Kung Fu Jedi said:
I trust you are all Americans. With your power hungry ways and general disregard for the consumption of non-renewable resources
Let's say you have 2 solar batt packs. You can leave one on the window-ledge to charge, whilst using the other one. And change them every couple of days or so?
And you'd never consume any more electricity via DS play. Which might even give you more spare $ for giant plates of meat with cheese at some point in the future. What's so wrong with that.
And once I've stopped trying to hump this tree, I will go and buy a pair myself.
If I actually knew how much watts the SP/DS charger uses, I'd calculate it and challenge you on that one. But I don't, so I'll just blindly estimate that it would take 6-8 years to pay back a $75 pricetag in terms of savings on energy costs, even assuming a really hardcore gamer who has the system plugged in more often than not.Nathan Barley said:
Oh, and electricity may or may not be a non-renewable resource depending on where each particular building's electricity is coming from.
And yes, I realize it's a joke post. I don't care, though.
UtadaBarkley
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Unison said:
Winnar!
Nathan Barley
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Jiggy37 said:
If even if you did know the wattage, I'd take up your challenge. Perhaps predictably, you are factoring only the cost of your electricity bill that arrives on your doorstep into your calculation. There are many more costs associated with energy consumption... some of those may appear indirectly in a tax bill (after environmental clean-up costs etc)... otherwise other people will foot the bill in some other time or place. For instance, if that blip of extra electricity was the straw that broke the camel's back: and made the world too hot for a rare Amazonian plant to exist, we might never find a cure for cancer. And that would be worth zillions.
I won't accept that either. As long as some electricity is coming from non-renewable resources, then you are equally guilty. Using some 'renewable electricity' to charge your PSP means someone else can't, and so will use 'non-renewable electricity' instead.
And yes, I realize it's a joke post. I don't care, though.
It wasn't a joke post. It was a political statement. And you should care.
Save the planet! because kids are the future and trees are great, and so are flowers, and all that sort of thing. Whales etc. Must stop using PC now. Too many watts consumed today.
Mac the KNife
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I haven't even seen the sun in 5 days.
Michigan winters
Michigan winters
Shit, if I had a DS or a PSP and an extra battery pack I'd actually be quite interested in this. $75 is a bit steep, but I'm looking forward to a whole summer of field work travelling across Australia or the midwest U.S., be nice to bring a little gaming with me.
Hell, I'm kinda considering grabbing this and GBA-SP with a few games before I take off in a few months. Most of my free time will be at night anyhow, so if I can just find a nice safe place to leave it while working, it'll be primed for late night gaming.
From the sounds of it the charger can charge its own internal battery, then be plugged into the game device and charge that, probably at a standard plugged in charge time. Thats pretty pimp.
I'm seriously considering this and a GBA-SP now. :lol
Hell, I'm kinda considering grabbing this and GBA-SP with a few games before I take off in a few months. Most of my free time will be at night anyhow, so if I can just find a nice safe place to leave it while working, it'll be primed for late night gaming.
From the sounds of it the charger can charge its own internal battery, then be plugged into the game device and charge that, probably at a standard plugged in charge time. Thats pretty pimp.
I'm seriously considering this and a GBA-SP now. :lol