Actually lights consumes more than fridges in terms of residential electricity.
Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
by tialaramex on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:04PM
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Modern lights barely consume anything. Are you thinking of old-fashioned incandescent lighting?
Improved efficiency is one of the things that allows us to have continued economic production despite reducing usage.
Nope, it’s from the statistics.
Let’s talk real. Compared to fluorescent lamp, LED comsumes half of energy. It’s not like they comsume nothing. Over 68% of sockets in American households already use LED in 2018 and 13% of energy was used in residential lighting in 2018. If 32% changes to LED it will lower the percentage to 11% which is still more than what we use to refrigerate.
Your stats are just totally made up aren't they?
In 2017, 1% of households had all sockets using LED and 71% had not a single socket using LED. 11% still had all sockets using incandescent. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31112
LEDs mostly aren’t replacing fluorescent; CFLs never caught on all that well for domestic use. They’re replacing incandescent or halogen, so more like 10x.
Scheduling exchanges, where your local grid sub-station can get your bids for usage and put it into a grid wide exchange, scheduling your car to charge itself at 3:34 am using 24Wh or whatever.
We become ever more interconnected - this is the real rental economy - renting not a lawn mower for an hour but renting power. You think privacy is bad on your phone - wait till your washing machine sends "soiled underpants on at 3pm - any bids" to half the planets solar providers
- Washing machines (Replace the concrete with water balloon, choose latest time to complete)
- Lights (mostly I think these will be LEDs drawing off a panel on our roof. We don't need that much light.
- too tired to do this but a study on this must exist somewhere?