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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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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The market actually doesn't capture the externalities of energy production though. It COULD, if governments were sane, but energy costs are currently undervalued.
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