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Just prior to Sept 11, 2001, President GW Bush was considering a statement about reducing electricity “vampires”, all the little chargers and small-drain device
by quantified 5y ago
Just prior to Sept 11, 2001, President GW Bush was considering a statement about reducing electricity “vampires”, all the little chargers and small-drain devices unused sitting in live outlets and power strips. Thanks in part to OBL, we got seriously distracted. Energy consumption can be nudged in small and big ways with only a trivial impact in “satisfaction”, though your media device manufacturers will be to blame for a bunch of apparent discomforts. Just takes being slightly mindful and giving a small care, which is way too much for most Americans. So jacking the price of energy up til it hurts is probably the only way to reduce usage.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoYou can just regulate these things. California has. So no need for expending mental energy. Though Americans will probably expand a great deal of mental energy on fighting and lamenting these things though as changing things for the better is perceived as unamerican by about a third of the population.
- quantified 5y agoA bunch of this boils down to habits- which regulations does CA have on those? (Probably more than one.) We’ll take all the useful ones on default behavior of items that make sense.
- blinded 5y agoI grew up in a household where my father went around shutting off unused lights and unplugging unused things. I have inherited this.