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[โ€“] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah another clickbait headline. It's getting recharged all the time, it's just very lucky to be in a use case where it goes down hills with large loads all the time

[โ€“] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 days ago

It's more than a clickbait headline, the first paragraph is just flat out wrong:

Perhaps best of all, it consumes no energy doing it.

Obviously it's consuming energy going uphill. Just because the power source is gravity doesn't mean it's not consuming energy.