2026-04-19 11:23 UTC
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@bryndos@fedia.io 2026-04-19 12:54
Over most distances that most tortoises actually want to travel, I suspect they're not much slower than a jet. Tortoises hate being asked to open their shells by airport security.
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@Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2026-04-19 12:17
Well, in pure energy usage, no; however if you take into account the energy usage of the whole chain, they're orders of magnitude better. After all, they can even be hooked up to a solar panel directly. For us to get 2000 kJ of energy, we need to water plants for a year, transport them, spend more than 2000 kJ of electricity cooking, and that's not even considering raising an animal for x months or years which needs >5000 kJ a day to just exist. Our sun->movement energy efficiency rate is pretty appalling and orders of magnitude worse than a robot's - even if the robot is just hooked onto the regular grid.