5d ago

Trump rally life hack: run truck to charge phone

From The Good Liars - Respecting The Flag

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Just wait until he discovers that the truck has a battery and can charge the phone with the engine turned off. It's gonna blow his mind.
- But how can electricity if not burn fossil fuel??
- Batteries are woke and communist.
- I've got a feeling this guys mind is blown several times each day. Someone should show him how a magnet sticks to some things but not others.
- Looks like an older Ford maybe? Can almost guarantee that truck has a 12v always-on ('hot') accessory socket somewhere, or an always-on USB socket. He wouldn't even need to have the key switched onto Accessory in the ignition to charge his phone via one of those sockets - let alone running the engine.
  Edit: I forgot though. Reading the manual is for nerds.
Assuming a conservative 0.5 gallons per hour at idle. A gallon of unleaded gasoline has ~153,000 watt hours of energy. At 20% extraction efficiency, that's 30,600 wh. That's 15,300 watts being burned to charge a phone. A typical phone charger uses 5-20 watts.
Edit: updated numbers to use 20% efficiency
"Not really worried about gas prices, no. Just saying I'm worried to blame Biden for it. Once we have Republican president I will forget about it. Same with eggs."
Somehow I imagine that he has purposefully modified his phone to have a huge battery and run as inefficiently as possible.
- His phone is rolling coal
  
  Nah, his phone has a ripcord on it because the battery is replaced with a very tiny model v8 generator and a nitro tank to fuel it.
@Imhotep this is definitely one of the thought processes that have ever existed in this world
- I don't follow

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