The armchairs here are all great. If they used a raspberry pi and rewrote their javascript in ARM assembly and reinvented a more power-efficient compression algorithm and solved your favourite problem of serving static pages instead of the problem they actually want to solve, they could maybe get more instructions per watt.
But really, I'm glad that they're actually doing it instead of talking about doing it and spending all of their time musing about _what if_ they did this other thing instead. This looks great.
I was confused about the "doing it" part. I see that they have all the materials and got some numbers like average power consumption, but they didn't seem to actually set it up and see how it worked?
Author here - I’m learning as I go. I thought of talking a out the actual sunlight starting at closer to 1300W and losing efficiency at each step, but I don’t get have the right tools to do that properly.
I’d def love to hear your suggestions though as I continue to iterate this one.
But really, I'm glad that they're actually doing it instead of talking about doing it and spending all of their time musing about _what if_ they did this other thing instead. This looks great.