Yesterday was a perfectly sunny day here where I am. So I took advantage of the sunlight to test out several different solar chargers to charge up the same 50000mAh power bank. I thought you folks would find the results interesting. I certainly was surprised with the outcome.
One thing I had never done before when doing tests like this - which has always been a silly thing to overlook - is that I never before established how much charge the wall electric outlet in my house gives me within the same time frame that I am using to test these solar chargers. As you will see from the results, my smallest and lightest solar charger consistently performed the best and performed as well as my wall electric outlet. The larger watt solar chargers performed the least well.
The 15w solar charger is the smaller, two-panel in the picture. The 22w solar charger is in the background and contains a third panel. Obviously, smaller and more compact is better, especially if higher watt solar chargers don’t offer any advantage in performance.
50,000mAh power bank
30 Minutes each test
29% Charge on Power Bank to begin
15w Solar Charger
START: 29%
END 32%
22w Solar Charger
START: 32%
END: 35%
15w Solar Charger (again)
START: 35%
END: 38%
28w Solar Charger
START: 38%
END: 39%
Home Electric Outlet
START: 39%
END: 41%
The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
