• @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    38•1 month ago

    We can solve those problems directly or indirectly by tying superman to a dynamo. With free energy even the issues with materials can be solved over time.

    • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
      28•1 month ago

      Just have superman round up every billionaire and political leader and drop them off on an deserted island, and the rest of us can start fixing our problems like adults.

        • ddhEnglish
          9•1 month ago

          Then the myth that they are special might live on. Broadcast their island ineptitude as they all die and we might wake from that dream.

    • Sigilos
      5•1 month ago

      Isn’t that just a solar panel with extra steps?

      • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
        6•1 month ago

        I would say the energy output Superman is capable of implies he’s actually a step-up transformer as well as a solar panel. He’d be much more efficient, but of course you only have one Superman.

        Now im curious. I’m just an electrician, not an engineer. How much of the grid could Superman power? Someone figure out his kilowatt-hour figures please 😅

        • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
          5•1 month ago

          The problem would be transmission, kinda like with huge powerplants that exist today.

          The most efficient solution? Probably Superman bullying world leaders and billionaires into funding room temperature superconductivity research, heh.

        • @el_bhm@lemm.ee
          3•1 month ago

          Depends on the writer I guess.

          Morrison? He just does a one energy cumblast while macrodosing some shrooms and Earth goes into overdrive. Humanity needs a new Si prefix for Wh.

          • jawa22
            1•1 month ago

            Just about every iteration could easily power thousands of mountain sized gravity batteries.