I wonder if one could calculate the watt-hours produced in a day by a theoretical 100 hamsters on generator-attached wheels, and if you could run a laptop and LTE hotspot from that (or similar load).

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pants2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A quick search suggests one hamster can produce around 0.5 Wh/day, so 100 hamsters should easily power your phone laptop with a constant 50W!

	▲	sokoloff 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That would be an average supply of just over 2 W. (50Wh/day is 50Wh/24h or 50/24 W)

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mjanx123 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Make the data center run ML/AI experiments for how to effectively run a "energy generation hamster farm" and you have a completely grid-and-internet independent energy solution that optimizes itself via hamsters over time.

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jcul 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Reminds me of the universal paperclip thing. AI harvesting matter for more hamsters.

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turbonaut an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t this uncomfortably close to the premise of the Matrix?

	▲	embedding-shape an hour ago \| parent [-]
		As long as we don't drug the hamsters and jam them into some sort of fake digital world, we should be fine? Put OpenAI's security researchers on it, heard they're good at containing experiments.

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Tepix 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An infinite number of data centers even!

	▲	HPsquared an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A smaller infinity, but still infinite.

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micw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, they would collapse into a singularity with an infinite event horizon that eats up the universe at the speed of light

	▲	Crom 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unless you're using miniature giant space hamsters
	▲	MaxikCZ 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So, an infinite speed, you say? ( ͝סּ ͜ʖ͡סּ)