All I needed now was a party with some family friends and their kids This is how much energy is in the battery. We need to get it from empty all the way up to the full That's where I need you guys because what happens is as you go down on this zipline It charges the battery The worst part about a zipline is when you have to go down and then drag it back up the hill But I've got a little remote control here watch this Is that cool? You guys want to ride that? you ready?
Mechanical advantage of the sloped Hill disguises it well But the amount of energy they are adding to our zipline system here by running up the hill just one time is the same energy used for the world record dead lift And to provide power to their leg muscles we repurposed our lemon battery lemons into fresh lemonade and Everyone had to take a drink before running up the hill because as they say when life gives you 1200 lemons make lemonade Then force kids to drink it to power your regenerative zipline So the zipline was awesome And we ended up charging up one of these portable drill batteries plus a little more. Now for those of you keeping track at home Here's how I'm doing so far the limits have enough power to move the supercar about this far on a soccer field and then with the lemonade and the kids muscles in the zipline it can now travel an additional two soccer fields The problem is the race is 200 soccer fields long, which means if we were to try and charge the car We'd be 198 soccer fields short.
So clearly that kind of power will not be breaking any records So I've got to come up with a plan C and to do that I'm gonna harness the power of the Sun and in hindsight I probably should have started here because if you think about it all the energy sources we use are actually solar powered. Oil and coal and natural gas It's just old decayed plants and swamps that originally got their power from the Sun using their leaves and photosynthesis Even things like wind turbines are really solar powered because the wind blows when the Sun heats up the atmosphere unevenly in the case of hydroelectric dams the water got to the lake on the high side because of rain from the clouds and clouds a result of water that Has been evaporated by you guessed it, the Sun.
As humans We are even solar power because we get our energy from plants or animals that ate plants Which again get their power from the Sun so if I was looking for some energy to fill up a battery instead of indirectly and Inefficiently going through a bunch of different energy sources and losing a bunch at every step along the way it makes way more sense to just go directly to the source And so with that in mind I busted out the power tools and put twenty-four 100 watt solar panels over our garage But there was a problem with this. When NASA sent the solar power twin Rovers to Mars in 2004 It didn't take long until the solar panels were Totally covered in dust which effectively crippled the rover because they couldn't get as much energy from the Sun and this was a huge issue But then we got lucky and a mini tornado came by and cleaned them off restoring the power It turns out these mini tornadoes are actually pretty common on Mars which is why she is still driving around today Nearly more than 14 years later. This is also in part why on the next Rover we sent to Mars We just killed the issue altogether and slapped a nuclear reactor on the back and while California isn't Mars It does get pretty dusty here.
So to ensure that wouldn't happen to me I invited over some really smart future engineers scientists and creators and after explaining the problem and demonstrating how severely it limits the power output from the panel's I challenged them to come up with and build a solution And because our brains use up 20% of all the energy our body produces. I made them drink more lemonade to ensure I got an optimal solution and so after pitching each other their ideas, they settled on one and got to work Personally I thought it was brilliant and it worked extremely well and after they left I hooked it up to my lawn sprinkler system So they go off for a few minutes once a week now and so after a few days of being bombarded by photons from space We finally had the battery all charged up to full capacity So in the end I learned a lot and we actually pulled it off And now if you'll excuse me, I have an urgent delivery deadline to meet in Colorado i like lemonade Okay, you like it Eliza? Okay
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