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1. Pedantry but long term energy storage isn't really a thing. consumption is more or less supply > Results from EIA’s 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Surv

1. Pedantry but long term energy storage isn't really a thing. consumption is more or less supply > Results from EIA’s 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that televisions and related peripheral devices—such as digital video recorders (DVRs), video game consoles, and streaming devices—consumed 7% of the electricity used in American homes in 2015 [1] quick edit: I derped the math. I think American residential is 21% so that's ~1.48% of total supply. You'd need a 33% efficiency increase in residential TV efficiency to match the energy saved by abolition of crypto. That's without taking into account that crypto is on average produced from _more_ renewable energy than the average. 1 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37032 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37032 2 - https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actually-consume https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...

einpoklum 4y ago
(1.) Ok, as long as I understand what you mean. (2.)-(4.) According to this page: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/electricity-consumption-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/electrici... US electricity consumption is ~1/6.5 of global electricity use (and the ratio has probably dropped since 2017). So, 7% of electricity used in American homes is ~1.48% of total US electricity consumption, but only 0.23% of total consumption. Granted, TV is in wide use throughout the world, but not nearly as much as in the US, I believe. So instead of 6.5, let's divide by... say... 2.5 instead? That's about 0.5% of total consumption. Similar to crypto then :-)
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- hailwren 4y ago
  No, your math is very wrong here. If you're trying to adjust the global rate for America being an outlier in tv consumption, you don't get to multiply by their representation in the global supply. That's just flat wrong. Further, even a multiple of 2 isn't really reasonable [1] [2] [3] 1 - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-the-most-tv.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-th... 2 - https://china.usc.edu/resources/average%20day#:~:text=ON%20AN%20AVERAGE%20DAY%20in,study%20by%20China%20Central%20Television https://china.usc.edu/resources/average%20day#:~:text=ON%20A.... 3 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-television-use-per-person-in-the-us-since-2002/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-televisio...

einpoklum 4y ago

(1.) Ok, as long as I understand what you mean. (2.)-(4.) According to this page: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/electricity-consumption-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/electrici... US electricity consumption is ~1/6.5 of global electricity use (and the ratio has probably dropped since 2017). So, 7% of electricity used in American homes is ~1.48% of total US electricity consumption, but only 0.23% of total consumption. Granted, TV is in wide use throughout the world, but not nearly as much as in the US, I believe. So instead of 6.5, let's divide by... say... 2.5 instead? That's about 0.5% of total consumption. Similar to crypto then :-)

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hailwren 4y ago
No, your math is very wrong here. If you're trying to adjust the global rate for America being an outlier in tv consumption, you don't get to multiply by their representation in the global supply. That's just flat wrong. Further, even a multiple of 2 isn't really reasonable [1] [2] [3] 1 - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-the-most-tv.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-th... 2 - https://china.usc.edu/resources/average%20day#:~:text=ON%20AN%20AVERAGE%20DAY%20in,study%20by%20China%20Central%20Television https://china.usc.edu/resources/average%20day#:~:text=ON%20A.... 3 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-television-use-per-person-in-the-us-since-2002/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-televisio...