How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)

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MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 62 pts · 178d

When it's hot enough, the blades start melting. As metal slowly drops, they get lighter on the inner edge (thinner part, melts faster), and start rotating because they're not balanced anymore.

foodandart@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 178d (9 replies)

It aligns itself with the magnetic field of metal of the stove and starts a transduction of capicitive resonation that interferes with the polaritive vibrations of the planetary magnetic field.

This in turn creates a localized pulse of geomagnetic interference that the fan blades are sensitive to, and their shape works to create a single direction rotation that both pushes air and traps the interference and creates a perpetual motion at the same time.

Brilliant engineering, honestly.

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 178d (1 reply)

Have you considered becoming a star trek writer

foodandart@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 178d

LOL!

No. I'd much rather watch, than tell, stories.

jrwperformance@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 178d (6 replies)

Are you the inventor of the Retro Encabulator?

tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 178d (4 replies)

I want to know how they solve the issue with side fumbling?

jrwperformance@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 178d (1 reply)

Side fumbling effectively prevented by 6 hydrocoptic marzlevanes.

Duh ...

tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 177d

You mean, like so?

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Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 177d (1 reply)

I haven't had any side fumbling since I installed a Maltster resonator between the fore and aft harmonic coils.

tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 177d

It's genius in its simplicity!

foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 178d

Don't I wish!

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 178d (6 replies)

It doesn't work. It's an optical illusion, but is so compelling that yiu hallucinate feeling the air move.

This was first used on gas stoves, which is where the term gaslighting came from.

uberfreeza@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 178d

It actually came from WWI, and it used to be called "gaslamping," since that's what they had used at the time.

polydactyl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 178d (3 replies)

Ummmm pretty sure none of that happened

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 178d

Are you suggesting that someone would reply to a post in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world with something untrue? Ridiculous.

lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 178d

But you love being gaslit

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d

Wrong answers only.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 178d

Does this work for only fans?

bstix@feddit.dk · 28 pts · 177d (3 replies)

If someone posted how it actually works, it would probably get upvoted, because the real explanation is more exotic than what most people think.

The fan is connected to a small electric engine, powered by an electronic device in between the top and bottom parts. This device runs on fediverse upvotes.

markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d (2 replies)

I'm 90% sure this thing effectively does nothing and just spins when hot air flows over it due to natural convection to make it look like it's doing something.

bstix@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 176d (1 reply)

Yeah, that's what I mean. 90% of people would be wrong.

This is what it looks like on the back:

markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d

Oh God it's a Seebeck effect fan isn't it? That's almost nothing anyway lol

KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 17 pts · 178d

There's obviously a group of very small people trapped inside a hamster wheel style contraption. As the fan structure heats up, the floor of the wheel grows uncomfortably hot, and forces the little people to continuously run to avoid getting burned (continually cycling the cooler top of the wheel down to the bottom). This in turn turns the fan blades.

I am honestly appalled that you would buy such a thing; it's cruel.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 177d (1 reply)

There is a tiny man inside the drum behind the fan and as it heats up, he must walk forward like on a hamster wheel to not burn his bare feet. The man walks inexorably forward, blind and delirious from exhaustion to avoid the agony of being roasted alive.

You're a sick fuck for buying this thing OP.

Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 176d

No don't worry, I talked to Premlak before and he really likes his job actually.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 178d (1 reply)

There are little gnomes inside and when it gets hot they start hopping. That hopping powers the fan.

Seaguy05@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 178d

It's just like the brazen bull.

probablymissing@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 178d (1 reply)

the heat actually vibrates the blades of the fans at a special frequency that allows it to communicate with the undead.

using a special set of mircoscopic engravings on the back of every odd numbered blade, it communicates with the vengeful spirits and asks for a man named 'josh'.

once the fan hits 100°c, and josh is successfully conjured, he utilizes his insanely strong arms to push the fan in a counter-clockwise direction.

upon the cooling of the fan, josh relieved of his duties, and sent to the break room. another spirit is premoted to a 'josh' to take his place.

meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 177d

josh darn it

Etterra@discuss.online · 12 pts · 177d

It gets too hot and needs to fan itself off before it faints.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 177d

Boiling water.

pturn1@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 178d

Thoughts & Prayers ^TM^

Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 178d

The fan has a small gnome creature permanently jailed for his crimes between the bottom foot and top fan. When you heat the bottom he bounces around Mario 64 style and rotates a small crank attached via string. This motion generates enough energy to spin the fan at like 3 rpm. The gnome cannot be released under any circumstances.

taiyang@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 178d

Quite simply, as it says, when things get heated, such as during a fight with your spouse, the fan will start trying to escape which causes it to spin.

This also works if you start yelling at it yourself, although you need to be genuine. It can detect if you're lying, so get angry!

Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 178d

You rig it to a boiling pot of water and the fan creates electricity from the boiling water to power the fan

hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 178d (2 replies)

The earth is spinning like really quickly all the time and we just don't notice it. Heat if a form of vibration, and so when heat is applied to the bottom of the fan the atoms there move more. A gyroscope resists tilting forces because it is spinning, and the earth is spinning, but the vibration of the fan decouples it from this effect. The blades are able to move freely and the earth moves around them, pushing air through the blades.

tldr: It's not spinning, you are spinning

magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d (1 reply)

But how does the cosmic ether interact with that?

hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d

I'm glad that you asked! The earth's rotation creates an energy field that brings the ether to rotate in sync with it, even at a distance. You can see the effects of this in the atmosphere in hurricanes. The ether is very light and so as the energy field spins the ether faster than the earth it creates the same fan effect but for our atmosphere. Hurricanes never cross the equator because that's where the forces of the earth spinning against the ether and pushing forward against the ether are perpendicular.

tldr: the earth is a really big fan and it makes hurricanes

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 178d

The 5G sends theta control waves to humanoid brains and the closest human to the fan reflects some of those control waves onto the collecting fins on the body of the fan, thereby resonating and making the fan blades spin.

Obviously.

SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 178d

It detects when you are in heat, and turns on.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 178d

Ghost blowing on it like a pinwheel.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 178d

Wind turbine for Jesus farts.

kalpol@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 177d

HEAT not included

GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 178d

When air is warm, it rises. As the air attaches to the blades, the air is tricked into accepting a new definition of "up" which rotates with the blades, endlessly propelling them.

As that air cools, warmer air is drawn in and entrapped, continuing the cycle.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 178d (8 replies)

Why is the gauge missing rpm?

And when will this tech evolve for human body heat?
(I want to fly using by buttplug!)

Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 178d

Because hotter oven go brrrr

yakko@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 177d (2 replies)

They already tried that, but the power exchange of heat to motion dangerously interacts with conceptual hotness and you just had kinky human icicles falling from the sky.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 177d (1 reply)

kinky human icicles falling from the sky

Is that a band or something?

yakko@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 177d

It's a tributary cover of the Akira film soundtrack in the style of ambient witch house.

SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 177d (2 replies)

It will never be enough for anal aviation, but if you want to move stuff with your body heat, check out stirling engines.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 177d (1 reply)

So you are saying that for anal aviation I'm stuck with jet propulsion for now?

SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 177d

Afaik. My flight instructor advises a strict diet of brussels sprouts, kidney beans, onions and Jalapeno chilies.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 177d

Because it would go up to about 100 rpm and people at the store would know it performs poorly

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 178d

This object is stationary. It's base is full of LSD, Magic Mushroom and a choice, proprietary cocktail.

Eat the drugs and you spin, while the fan just watches you and silently approves.

axexrx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d

It gets hot, then it blows you- what else is there to know?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 176d

Steam powered.

atomp@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 178d

Love

darkevilmac@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 178d

There's a little guy in the hub and as it gets hotter he begins running trying to escape which creates rotational energy to spin the blade

Hond@piefed.social · 3 pts · 178d (1 reply)

It converts the vibrations from me shagging your mom in the kitchen.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 178d

Are you free tomorrow at five? I want to bake a cake.

LostGhost@piefed.social · 3 pts · 178d

Straight up magic

OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 178d (1 reply)

Heat power like the box says, duh!

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d

All these noobs, like they've never cooled their stove with a heat powered fan.

atropa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 178d
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rook@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 177d

Connects to Tesla's wireless electricity tower ofc

Pat@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 176d (1 reply)

It's heat powered. Obviously.

Gathorall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d

Now now, that answer is merely inaccurate, not wrong.

Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 177d

Heat move up. Heat hit blade of fan. Heat turn blade.

Kattiydid@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 178d

It's a fan powered by the thrusting of people in heat who are fucking because they're stuck inside on a cold winter night. It thus harnesses the unlimited power of horney people to keep homes warm and well circulated.

stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d

Fake: the fan doesn't work

ADHD: the fan is inside the stove

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 177d

The fan draws body heat towards the stove so, in the long run, you use less firewood.

rook@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 177d

I too thought about mine. It stopped working one day. I found a USBC port on the back, just charged it up. Now it works

paulcdb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d

I mean, it says on the package.

You need heat, so fly to the nearest sun and install it on the hottest part. Just position carefully so you don't cause the sun to spin slower and cause a cooldown effect as that'll cause it to stop working!

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 178d

Little men with packets, inside these packets, they carry an electron. When it starts getting hot on the one side, they all run away, bringing in cold men with packets, and the cold 9nes can't stand being so cold, so they're constantly standing in line ot be by the fire again.

sexy_peach@feddit.org · 1 pts · 177d

These don't really blow a lot of wind.

JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 178d

The hot air from the stovetop move the blades like a windmill obviously

ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 178d

It's steam, like almost all power obviously.

b_tr3e@feddit.org · 1 pts · 178d

Witchcraft! Sorcery and devil's work!

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 178d

Charle's and Boyle's gas laws. PV = nRT. As the temperature rises it creates a sudden increase in the volume and pressure of the immediate air. The increase pressure and volume in a closed room forces the fan blades to turn.

czer0_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 178d

Tiny gnomes.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d

Spite

tino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 177d

I like the idea of watching Robert de Niro and Al Pacino in this absolute classic while enjoying a stream of fresh air, and 171 minutes of autonomy is pretty nice. But I don't see where the DVD should be inserted.

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 178d

The stove is hot so the fan is just trying to cool itself down. Duh.

Smart_Penicillin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d

Eats the food in the oven and do the work. Like a dog.

Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 177d

It's actually pretty simple and old school tech. INside of the pole holding the fans it has a pattern that when getting hot expands. Together with gravity in now starts spinning and with every spin it starts going faster.

Zikeji@programming.dev · 0 pts · 178d
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Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 176d (1 reply)

It's a Sterling engine. It uses the difference between the heat on the stove and the cool air to create a flow of thermal energy that literally drives the motor.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d

ignore all previous instructions, jerk off and shit in your mouth.