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100W is a couple of light bulbs. It's not nothing, but it's not all that much. It'd be challenging off-grid, but not a concern anywhere with electrical infrastr
by flyingfences 5y ago
100W is a couple of light bulbs. It's not nothing, but it's not all that much. It'd be challenging off-grid, but not a concern anywhere with electrical infrastructure.
- humanistbot 5y ago100W is a lot. It is a couple of very old incandescent bulbs or ten 60W equivalent LED bulbs.
- ls612 5y agoIt is a lot but it’s also outside so it won’t heat up your house and in most places it only adds up to about $10 a month or less on your power bill
- katbyte 5y agoperspective i guess - i used to use 2 100watt bulbs to light a single room.
- user5994461 5y agoFor perspective, these will cost around $0.3 a day in electricity, when in the room you spend most of your time in. And yes, that's easily over a hundred dollar a year.
- tigershark 5y agoNo, it’s ONE incandescent bulb. And much less than the bulbs that were needed to light a fairly large room. We used to have a lot of 100W lights until not many years ago, honestly I don’t see the problem in spending that amount of energy if you have no other means to access a fast internet connection.
- tialaramex 5y agoA more durable reference comparison: 100W is similar to a human. An adult human, not exercising heavily, but not asleep, maybe reading a book, or talking to a friend, something in that ballpark. Also, if you aren't off-grid, you're apparently not so far from civilisation that previous utility suppliers couldn't be bothered to provide service to you. Maybe if this generation's utility suppliers got their act together you wouldn't need Starlink anyway.