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ButlerianJihadyesterday at 7:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices


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chabskatoday at 2:34 AM

It's weirdly phrased, but it just means that they don't have a tight control for battery capacity. Their device is designed to operate for at most ten hours (for example), but the battery that they use could have anywhere between 8-12 hours of supply, so the transmitter would be active anywhere between 8-10 hours.

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kridsdale1yesterday at 8:12 PM

They just have access to classified physics and definitions of energy most people don’t have.

elictronicyesterday at 10:28 PM

Small solar panel and a charge controller. Defeat physics with this one trick.