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0 pointsponector8mo ago0 comments

Today residential use amounts of 15% energy used in USA, and 40% of electricity use.

In Florida, HVAC accounts to 40% of energy bill of the household.

40% of 15% is not that much, even if everyone is using AC.

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That seems like a huge amount of additional energy usage that's going to further exacerbate the problem, which is the position I took originally.

Just because you can make it look small by focusing on the percentage doesn't change that. At the end of the day it means, if we accept these numbers, that the total national energy usage would go up by around 7%. That then gets multiplied across France Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, the UK & Ireland etc., to the point that the total power usage is as if we suddenly had another entire country.

And keep in mind while considering any of these numbers that our current 100% is already much higher than where we need to be at to avoid widespread ecological disasters. We need to be reducing our usage not saying "well it's only a few percent more."

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0 pointsponector8mo ago0 comments

Today residential use amounts of 15% energy used in USA, and 40% of electricity use.

In Florida, HVAC accounts to 40% of energy bill of the household.

40% of 15% is not that much, even if everyone is using AC.

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AlecSchueler8mo ago

That seems like a huge amount of additional energy usage that's going to further exacerbate the problem, which is the position I took originally.

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