article: charging your phone from 0 to 100% takes an additional 7 watt hours me: the equivalent of running a reading lamp for 4 minutes given 36 kwh in a gallon of gasoline, this is also the same as 1/13th of a teaspoon of gasoline perfect example of bluecheck innumeracyhttps://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291087095478415365 …
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4/ if only there was a way to capture the costs associated with things, and thus set incentives appropriately so that individuals make the trade offs that optimize global utility but to do that we'd need, I dunno, "prices", and "charge" for electricity no idea how that'd workhttps://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291126851943849984 …
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5/ imagine believing in 2020 that the market is incapable of incentivizing energy efficiency, contrary to the easily accessible historical record on the subject that shows it doing so Brian Merchant is the very dumbest person who believes himself clever https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291419365007478784 …
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6/ or, perhaps, the phenomena of diminishing returns reducing the energy use of every single thing REGARDLESS OF COSTS ON OTHER AXISES is not a smart move like graph of someone losing weight for a while, then stopping MAYBE THAT'S THEIR TARGET WEIGHT https://twitter.com/physicspod/status/1291422934733651970 …
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7/ The standard of living in the US is much higher than in other parts of the world. Human happiness is one of the things that any sane system should optimize for. North Korea uses far less energy per person than we do. This is not praise for NK. https://twitter.com/physicspod/status/1291426849894129667 …
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Actual question: I dropped a Nexus 5 in the river and fished it out as early as 2015 and it worked fine (The 20k mAh battery I was using to give it more than 6 hours of battery life on that trip not so much
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Guess that depends. If you get a quality (expensive) phone with all the bells and whistles, it may handle submersion pretty well. I doubt that applies to a lot of the super cheap handsets people buy for prepaid plans.
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There’s also the lost-opportunity costs a la contingency planning (see adjacent thread about “nobody needs more than a Prius”). If trivial to charge when just setting it down, less likely the “crap, I didn’t charge it” case costing much more than the price of wireless charging.
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might happen but I'm never buying a phone without a data/power port
making a mechanical connection between the phone and a car or other battery is too useful of an affordance
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