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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by pouetpouet on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:52AM (#16474481)
Perception of brightness is not linear. The human eye response is not linear. So x10 the luminous flux (power output) will be perceived as brighter but far from x10.
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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:50AM (#16475220)
k.

People are still not installing 10x as much light.

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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by pouetpouet on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:35PM (#16476433)
not in their home, but I can see many more historical and institutionnal buildings being illuminated, commercial use also. It may still not amount to 10x though.
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