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Shitty Million Dollar Ideas

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This is a place to pitch goofy million dollar ideas that you had in the shower, as you were falling asleep, or during a fever dream. Think of it is as shitty Shark Tank.

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Rain powered car (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If it's sunny you take the sun-powered car and if it's rainy, the rain-powered car. It's genius really

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Add a little extra wind power to both of those, and baby you got a stew going!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Snow?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Snow powered car idiot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hail?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hail-Hit ~~ler~~ power

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, we talking a piezoelectric body that converts the kinetic energy of the rain into power, or electric vehicles in Quebec? (Quebec has a shit ton of hydroelectricity, which one could argue is rain-powered.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's what powers our server, isn't it? So our server is rain-powered?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's entirely possible, yes! I just don't know anything about the physical location of the sh.itjust.works server..