Comment by bluGill
5 months ago
For any individual the difference is not noticeable. But across the several hundred million laptops in the US even 1 watt adds up.
5 months ago
For any individual the difference is not noticeable. But across the several hundred million laptops in the US even 1 watt adds up.
I compared to air conditioners though, which would also be multiplied by that several hundred million factor (well, maybe the laptops get an additional factor of, like, 4 because a room can fit multiple people with laptops, and you don’t need an air conditioner in every season).
If we’re looking at choices a person can make, every choice is multiplied by millions when applied to the entire population of a country, so the 1W differences are swamped by the equally scaled 10W differences.
Every watt into laptops means a watt the air conditioner needs to move out.
you cannot ignore small things in the grand scheme as they add up.
It doesn’t make sense to talk about “adding up” unless we define what we’re aggregating over. Residential energy consumption, for sure, is a significant chunk of energy consumption.
If we’re looking at the things we can do to reduce our individual consumption, it absolutely makes sense to prioritize the things which are large relative to our other individual contributions, first.
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