Do you have a source for the standby power consumption of US devices being 3x the Bitcoin network's consumption?

Edit: Found one myself: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons

Interestingly gold mining also uses more electricity than Bitcoin mining and that doesn't even include the associated costs of pollution, cleanups etc. Gold also isn't a network that can transfer value. On the other hand some of it is used in industrial applications.