60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
I’m often flabbergasted at tech YouTubers who complain about the high energy cost of their 20 watt or 14 watt home server.
I’m like, you understand that we used to burn 2.4 kilowatts a day to light a single room, right?
We also used to build houses to ‘breathe’, specifically encouraging air flow through the walls, etc. to carry away the water leaking in through all the unsealed holes, and allowing any efforts in heating and cooling to go out that same way. In the days of yore, the gas lines that fed English streetlamps with coal gas were allowed to just flow, even when not lit. It’s a wild thought to wonder how much longer the end of fossil fuels could have been put off if efficiency had been a priority from the start.
If efficiency is key, burning things is out of question decades earlier.
Because burning is never really efficient