did you know that the equation for lamp longevity vs. percentage of nominal operating power involves a 13th power term

@gsuberland someone been watching styropyro? :-)

@PatrickHerd always but I knew this fact before styro

@buherator knew this before styro but yes that's what reminded me

the LED equation is much more boring unfortunately

@gsuberland yes

@gsuberland I wanna guess it's a Taylor polynomial?

@Alonely0 nope, just a 13th power.

@gsuberland @buherator the desire to hook up 400 kW of incandescent light bulb to a public CCS charger

@gsuberland According to Wikipedia the exponent is somewhere between 12 and 16 according to various sources, so the 13 seems to be an approximation. According to this neat article it's not even constant
https://www.brikbase.org/sites/default/files/ies_050.pdf

@0xC01DC0FFEE yeah the 13th power version is mostly a median estimate, there's heaps of variance

@uint8_t @gsuberland @buherator This! Or beat the technology connections guy with an even faster kettle.

People need to do more silly stuff now that half a megawatt of electrical power is easily accessible.

@karotte @uint8_t @gsuberland @buherator

> People need to do more silly stuff now that half a megawatt of electrical power is easily accessible.

This is going to haunt me

@karotte @gsuberland @buherator you could probably find 3 independent chargers nearby to go over a MW when using them together

@buherator @gsuberland @karotte quick back of the envelope calculation tells me 400 kW gets 150 grams of water from 0℃ to steam, each second. or if we just want to brew tea, almost a kilogram per second from 0 to 100

@buherator @gsuberland @karotte I think for just speedboiling a liter of water we’ll run into power ramp-up/ramp-down limits of the charger

so what if instead we use a glycerol-water mixture to make the world’s biggest hazer