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None of the equipment in this article does that. It takes power from the grid the way any appliance does; it optionally charges by solar; and it provides power
by sowbug 1y ago
None of the equipment in this article does that. It takes power from the grid the way any appliance does; it optionally charges by solar; and it provides power the same way a UPS does, using ordinary female power sockets.
But there are devices out there that do feed power over the exposed prongs of a male plug. They're called "suicide cords" for good reason.
- Waterluvian 1y agoAh. I saw a whole thing about solar panels for balconies that did exactly this. I skimmed the article and thought I saw the same idea. I missed that it’s just charging a battery.
- Waterluvian 1y agoAh! These… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806