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Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi by tppiotrowski on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:51PM (#35575265)
The extreme power consumption of a RaspberryPI 4 is about 7W [1]. The battery is 144Wh. If battery can discharge 100% that's about 20 hours and about 10 hours for 50% discharge. This all assumes the CPU is pegged at 100% and it's not an older model which consumes less power.

I guess it could be possible.

[1] - https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption

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Re:This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi by Schroedingersat on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:31PM (#35576834)
If you put any effort into power optimization you can get an r-pi under 2W at fairly high CPU load. r-pi like could also be one of the much more efficient single board computers that run under 1W
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