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Re:Eastern US power grid orders cuts, issues system wide eme... by skrause on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:51AM (#34115431)
It's a weird thing so say that a higher electricity consumption equals to "vastly higher living standards" when the higher consumption might just be in part because of badly insulated homes.
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Re:Eastern US power grid orders cuts, issues system wide eme... by Dma54rhs on Saturday December 24, 2022 @06:14AM (#34115843)
Americans pay way more attention to ventilation, air quality etc. We euros barely use AC, seeing mold at home in big cities like Porto is just part of living there. I don't think Americans would accept it.
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Re:Eastern US power grid orders cuts, issues system wide eme... by landemva on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:33AM (#34118372)
(Many) Americans also equate higher living standards with a huge TV which is generally turned on.
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Re:Eastern US power grid orders cuts, issues system wide eme... by Throwawayaerlei on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:57AM (#34118623)
Is that really a lot in the scheme of things? I don't have CFL backlit LCD TV info handy since they've been supplanted by LEDs, but I looked at Best Buy (a big US seller of these sorts of things) and found a popular $500 65" and their most insane 98" $15,000 Samsung ones, 190 and 360 watts respectively.

I'm old and by my family's standards 65" diagonal would be questionable at best, so I checked in the vicinity of 48", 43" and 50" only gets you down to 120-5 watts. Add probably not very many watts for whatever's supplying the signal and it doesn't sound like a big deal, although of course everything adds up.

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