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The general point made here is really interesting though - a large number of our appliances (domestic and small business) can easily be time-agnostic if built
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
The general point made here is really interesting though - a large number of our appliances (domestic and small business) can easily be time-agnostic if built for it. It may take a decade or two to replace the fleet but boy, just think of the opportunities replacing every appliance globally presents - this is on the order of a new Tesla (the disruptive company) for each appliance.
Scheduling exchanges, where your local grid sub-station can get your bids for usage and put it into a grid wide exchange, scheduling your car to charge itself at 3:34 am using 24Wh or whatever.
We become ever more interconnected - this is the real rental economy - renting not a lawn mower for an hour but renting power. You think privacy is bad on your phone - wait till your washing machine sends "soiled underpants on at 3pm - any bids" to half the planets solar providers
- Washing machines (Replace the concrete with water balloon, choose latest time to complete)
- Lights (mostly I think these will be LEDs drawing off a panel on our roof. We don't need that much light.
- too tired to do this but a study on this must exist somewhere?
- maallooc 7y agoActually lights consumes more than fridges in terms of residential electricity.
- tialaramex 7y agoModern lights barely consume anything. Are you thinking of old-fashioned incandescent lighting? Improved efficiency is one of the things that allows us to have continued economic production despite reducing usage.
- maallooc 7y agoNope, it’s from the statistics. Let’s talk real. Compared to fluorescent lamp, LED comsumes half of energy. It’s not like they comsume nothing. Over 68% of sockets in American households already use LED in 2018 and 13% of energy was used in residential lighting in 2018. If 32% changes to LED it will lower the percentage to 11% which is still more than what we use to refrigerate.
- rsynnott 7y agoLEDs mostly aren’t replacing fluorescent; CFLs never caught on all that well for domestic use. They’re replacing incandescent or halogen, so more like 10x.
- sunstone 7y agoLED lighting has taken the world by storm and we never hear a peep about it.
- cjhopman 7y agoYour stats are just totally made up aren't they? In 2017, 1% of households had all sockets using LED and 71% had not a single socket using LED. 11% still had all sockets using incandescent. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31112 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31112