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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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258 points arnon | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source

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cenamus ◴[21 Sep 25 13:07 UTC] No.45322381[source]▶
20Ah for 23 bucks? Seems like it's almost too good to be true. Wouldn't surprise me if it was just half that, would explain the price and weight.
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phito ◴[21 Sep 25 14:16 UTC] No.45322945[source]▶
Also I doubt that Haribo has special light battery technology. Seems more likely that they lied on the capacity... Article doesn't test the capacity
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1. grues-dinner ◴[21 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45326420[source]▶
If a video game company can fund building a fusion reactor, maybe a stealth breakthrough in energy densities coming from a sweet company is just how things roll these days!