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This same thought experiment used to crack me up with lights. Folks would think "just turn your lights off earlier to save energy." This really fit in the men
by taeric 5y ago
This same thought experiment used to crack me up with lights. Folks would think "just turn your lights off earlier to save energy." This really fit in the mentality of "you have to suffer to gain."
The math isn't even hard. Switching from 60W bulbs down to an LED, which is ~9W, any effort to save energy on the old lights by turning them off is laughably misguided.
- aspenmayer 5y agoThis kind of thinking comes from a scarcity mindset that is overly concerned with efficiency, when we already have record-breaking efficiency in many domains compared to only 5 or 10 years ago. What was the point of those efficiency gains and engineering efforts and research expenditures, if we can’t even use the toys we made with the cool tech we invented? What’s the point of doing better if we’re shamed for the enterprise itself, after outdoing ourselves?