Questionable Engineering
Charging a Tesla on Household Output: A Feasibility Memorandum
Charging one 75 kWh electric vehicle from empty on household digestive output alone, sized from volatile solids and biogas to the kilowatt-hours delivered.
A Bureau Series
How Much Poop Would It Take?
The Bureau's standing feasibility series: national loads, restated in contributions.
Questionable Engineering
Feeding the Machine: Contribution Requirements of One AI Chatbot
One AI chatbot answering a billion questions a day, priced in the household digestive output needed to keep its servers fed for a single day.
Questionable Engineering
Estimated Contributions Required to Illuminate the Las Vegas Strip
Illuminating the Las Vegas Strip for a year, converted from gigawatt-hours into the daily contributions a national mobilization would have to supply.
Questionable Engineering
Powering One Bitcoin Miner: A Contribution Audit
One Bitcoin miner draws three and a quarter kilowatts without pause; this audit sizes the contributing population needed to keep a single machine hashing.
Questionable Engineering
The Suburban Christmas-Light Display, Restated in Contributions
One heavy suburban Christmas-light display, its dusk-to-bedtime load restated as the days of household contribution each evening quietly draws down.
Questionable Engineering
The Walmart Air-Conditioning Question
Air-conditioning one Walmart supercenter through a July afternoon, restated as the contributing population, about a mid-sized city, required to hold it.