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Actually lights consumes more than fridges in terms of residential electricity.
by maallooc 6y ago
Actually lights consumes more than fridges in terms of residential electricity.
- tialaramex 6y 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 6y 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 6y 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 6y agoLED lighting has taken the world by storm and we never hear a peep about it.
- cjhopman 6y 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