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Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by tialaramex on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:04PM (#23187303)
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.

Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by maallooc on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:11PM (#23187368)
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.

Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by cjhopman on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:52AM (#23189016)
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

Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by rsynnott on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:35PM (#23187866)
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.
Re:Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap by sunstone on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:41AM (#23188961)
LED lighting has taken the world by storm and we never hear a peep about it.