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[–] [email protected] 332 points 1 month ago (6 children)

So the energy this truck uses is harnessed via mining and loading... Essentially this energy was stored in the ore via geological processes.

This truck uses continental drift as his fuel.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

Or in physics terms, potential energy.

[–] brrt 35 points 1 month ago

Since everything seems to be going downhill right now, how would I harness that power? You telling me the crystal peddling influencers were right all along? 🤣

[–] captain_aggravated 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen a cable lift that worked basically like that. It transferred ore down the mountain, so heavy buckets going down lifted the empty buckets back up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't Tom Scott make a video about this?

[–] captain_aggravated 30 points 1 month ago

Statistically, yes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I’ve heard of a diesel-electric logging truck that uses this concept as well. Use the batteries going up the mountain empty, charge them again going downhill loaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The truck has a penis?