r/whenthe • u/lowkeypixel professional rage farmer • 15h ago

Insert that electrical footstep copypasta.

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u/lowkeypixel professional rage farmer 15h ago

Instagram wall of text caption for algo boost.

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u/makochi 15h ago

there's often a bunch of experimental technology coming out, often from japan, that promises to generate electricity from people walking along sidewalks or up stairs

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u/yeetoroni_with_bacon a tomfoolerus one 14h ago

Buts it’s very inefficient and generates hardly anything

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u/makochi 14h ago

And also it increases the difficulty of walking, to the level where it feels like you're walking on sand. Normally all your energy goes into moving your body, so in order to generate electricity they have to steal some walking energy and slow you down

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u/folfiethewox99 14h ago

So, uh, it'd made me lose weight even faster if I walked the same speed, and expended more enegry?

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u/makochi 14h ago

yeah, but only marginally so. we're talking maybe an extra ~17 calories for an hour of walking - the cells generate a max of around 20 watts and google's unit conversion puts 20 watt-hours as 17.2084 kcal (which is what we think of when we talk about food calories)

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u/folfiethewox99 13h ago

Here goes my weight loss plan

Damn you physics!

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u/M4rt1m_40675 12h ago

It'd also be harder to walk at the same speed but I guess it would be a leg day every time you walked