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The problem is that home energy consumption varies wildly across the world, even orders of magnitude. I would use "power to light X soccer fields" or something
by JorgeGT 11y ago
The problem is that home energy consumption varies wildly across the world, even orders of magnitude. I would use "power to light X soccer fields" or something like that which is more or less global.
- stingraycharles 11y agoI'm pretty sure that would confuse people even more; i have no idea how much electricity a soccer field uses on a monthly basis. Can't we just get over it and accept that the only thing people generally have a good idea about is the power consumption of their own household, and as such using home energy consumption is what journalists have settled on? It's really the most pragmatic, and is only problematic when they're not providing the GW value.
- JorgeGT 11y agoOut of curiosity, what is the power consumption of your household?
- jstanley 11y agoIt is 1 household's worth of power consumption. The point he was making is that he doesn't know the exact number, but he knows how many household's worth it is.
- mikeash 11y agoThat doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Households don't consume identical amounts of power. When an article discusses powering large numbers like this, it's using an average. If you don't know how much power your own house uses then you don't know how you compare to the average. As for knowing or not knowing the exact number, do people not read their electric bills?