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My mom keeps bothering me to turn off the light before I leave home while any of the Youtube video she watch costs as much energy as keeping my light on for day
by PoissonVache 5y ago
My mom keeps bothering me to turn off the light before I leave home while any of the Youtube video she watch costs as much energy as keeping my light on for days/months.
If only people were more aware of the energy cost of Internet.
- pjc50 5y agoI'd want numbers for that; youtube is fairly efficient, especially on a mobile device. Coincidentally I found a thread recently (in French) claiming that it was more energy-efficient to watch Netflix than broadcast TV: https://twitter.com/pbeyssac/status/1439977593315512320 https://twitter.com/pbeyssac/status/1439977593315512320
- Torwald 5y agoCorrect me if I am wrong, but I think saving energy is the wrong overall way to go. Better is to be 100% renewable (or otherwise "green") when generating energy, so that consumption ceases to be an issue.
- burkaman 5y agoThe right thing is to do both, because we don't have time to relax and wait for the grid to be 100% renewable. Using less energy means we can convert the grid more quickly.
- oytis 5y agoNow I feel really old, but your mom probably remembers time when a bright lightbulb would consume twice as much energy as a modern laptop (which was like 10-15 years ago)
- hinkley 5y agoThe power budget on big screen TVs has snuck up on people and doesn't get enough air time. In many houses the TV is using more power than the fridge, and in some cases more than your old fridge did. My partner also complains about lights or leaving the fridge door open while I fetch food or drink from several containers, but then leaves the TV on counting on it to turn itself off (in an hour). I think I'm going to have to explain conductivity and heat capacity, and remind everyone that I replaced all of the lights in the house with LEDs (some of which were goddamned expensive).