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crossover of the century!!

No backlights, no apps, no internet, no touchscreen, no formatting....basically it was a keyboard with a small amount of digital storage (RAM or flash, forget) and a tiny monochrome LCD to read what you were editing.

My guess: probably, but you really wouldn't want to. Your fingers will get tired pretty quickly.

You underestimate my ability to stay in one spot.

same general principle hybrid cars use to capture the kinetic energy of the spinning car wheels when your foot's off the gas, & when it's braking. we waste so much of all this free energy by not capturing it! a lot of energy problems would be solved by exploiting the process.

totally as it should be! and shoulda been all along, frankly. heated with wood for almost 20 years, but we had to cut it ourselves. loved it! invigorating to be so productive.

They also had homemade contraptions to do things like wash laundry by direct pedal power without electricity.

Tangentially, you can get wireless light switches that are powered by the click, eg www.click4electrics.co.uk/1/16201/foru...

Didn't the gyms that tried to power the lights via their machines end up scrapping the whole thing?

That's plastic bubble keyboards though. at peak esports, esports guys were caught in a masculinity cycle over how clicky their mechanical keyboards were. what do I multiply this by, to account for the heaviest buckling-spring switches compared to the membrane boards from the study?

You've got two things to balance-one is that the solar production displaces other forms of energy, usually from heat engines. The other side is that solar panels have a lower albido than the surfaces they are covering, so less of the sunlight is reflected back to space. I think the latter dominates.

Was the answer steam power?

It might look like this:

Some of my coworkers would probably say the impacts from my typing could power a small city

Your analysis failed to account for my mom, who in her prime could type 120 wpm on an entirely mechanical typewriter which required a substantial amount of kinetic energy for every keystroke. Just to depress the key, let alone give it an impact, required about a Newton-inch of work, maybe a lb-cm.

Where is my earth shattering kaboom? I was promised an earth shattering kaboom.

I can't say that I was surprised by the destination, but the journey was a pleasure as always.

It is refreshing to see that no planets were destroyed this time.🧪🙂