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I am baffled by this argument. What point are you trying to make? The energy is still being used, just at slightly different times.
by 0xdde 2y ago
I am baffled by this argument. What point are you trying to make? The energy is still being used, just at slightly different times.
- toenail 2y ago> What point are you trying to make? What's so hard to understand? Children can't do schoolwork after dusk without electricity. Society doesn't function after dusk without massive electricity. Let's do our work while the sun shines brightly is 19th century level behavior.
- _heimdall 2y agoYou're making assumptions here though that children having to do schoolwork after dark is a fundamentally good thing. The same goes for the assumption that society can't function after dusk - what did society do before the lightbulb was invented? Taking modern norms as a basis for why we need the tech that allows the modern norms is a logical loop. People did learn things before electricity, and electricity didn't predate society.
- kragen 2y agoif you read william kamkwamba's autobiography, you will gain a major appreciation for what a huge improvement functioning after dusk can be. his 12-watt windmill revolutionized his family's life, for the better, even before it made him world-famous
- _heimdall 2y agoI have little doubt that going from no electricity to 12 watts can be a huge leap, but I'm not familiar with William Kamkwamba. Help me out here, what goals or metrics did he point to when showing that his family's life was better?
- kragen 2y agoread the book
- _heimdall 2y agoI may. In the meantime is it really so hard to give highlights or an example that at least better explains the point you were raising? Just saying one person felt their life drastixally improved with one change they made isn't really helpful at all, you can find countless anecdotes to make whatever argument you want.
- kragen 2y agoyou can do your schoolwork with a 1-watt led, a 10-watt smartphone, or a 30-watt big-screen backlit laptop. if your nighttime electricity costs are a ridiculous 40¢ per kilowatt hour, abstaining from 30 watts 4 hours a night will save you 43 kilowatt hours per year, almost 18 dollars. even in like lesotho those aren't the kinds of loads you'd have a strong economic incentive to shift to the daytime it's more things like baking dinner in an electric oven, demolishing concrete with an electric hammer, welding with an arc welder, heating the water in your hot-water heater
- L-four 2y agoYeah, most of the load I cannot move so cost has no effect on my usage it just means I have less disposable income. 75% percent of my bill is network cost so power source cost make little difference to me.
- kragen 2y agoif solar panels on your roof generate the energy, you don't need the network
- iforgotpassword 2y agoDude all he suggested is running your dishwasher while at work instead of at night, and you're acting like he wants to end modern life as we know it. Chill.