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Wow, one of these would double my electricity usage.

• tzs 5y ago
  That implies your electricity usage is ~2.4 kWh/day. How do you get the low? In the US, an idling desktop computer, an energy efficient refrigerator, and a fan for household air circulation would be enough to exceed that. I just download usage details from my electric company for a bill from the middle of summer when my usage is lowest, which provides usage broken down by 15-minute intervals, and the lowest 15-minute interval I had was using electricity at a rate of 4.8 kWh/day. (The highest was a rate of 193 kWh/day. Probably had a 15-minute interval where the water heater was on, at the same time as the electric clothes dryer, while I was cooking something using the electric oven/stove, and microwaving something, while the well pump was running, and the iMac was doing something CPU intensive, while the fridge happened to be running).
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  • cinntaile 5y ago
    I think you mean ~1.2kWh/day (0,05kW*24h).
    • Someone 5y ago
      GP doesn’t claim its double their electricity use, but that it would double it, which means it’s about equal to their current electricity usage. Still, 2.4kWh is very low. I think it, in the western world, even is hard to achieve for a single person household that doesn’t use any electricity for heating or cooking, has a gas-powered refrigerator and no, or a gas-powered, clothes drier.
  • sagarm 5y ago
    My electricity use is 5kWh/day, which you're correct actually averages to 200W. My mistake. We have gas heat/hot water. My household's _baseline_ power usage is 100W, which is probably mostly the refrigerator based on some energy meters. So you're correct, my total power consumption would only go up by 50%, but one of these dishes would double my household's idling power use.