Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by lamontcg on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:13AM
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Those are really bizarre levels of trying to be counterintuitive. For lunch you can now walk to your refrigerator to get a sandwich. It burns much less carbon to just walk or drive to your nearest watering hole for a beer rather than driving to work in rush hour and then back in order to get a beer. Total transportation carbon emissions from the average household are also twice the total HVAC emissions, and carbon consumption due to appliances like refrigerators, washer/driers and hot water heaters should be relatively constant (could even go down if you just wear the same pair of sweatpants for a week).
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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by bennyp101 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:22AM
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Completely :)
I was just trying to point out that just the fact of stopping people commuting doesn't really mean a lot, there are a lot more things in play.
I'm in the UK, and our houses are not really built for extreme temperature fluctuations, so in the summer I run the portable AC - which is terrible but otherwise we can't sleep. In the winter, it's crazy cold - but at least now we have the log burner in so not as bad.
I think it does depend on where you are in the world, I can't walk to a pub, or a shop where I live. I have to drive further than my office to get to a supermarket or town.
But yes, I may have not made great points in that post!