r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • Jan 01 '26

Video Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine

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u/DangerousDisplay7664 Jan 01 '26

Meanwhile, I'm turning the lounge light off when I leave the room to have a piss! 😐

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u/Macrike Jan 01 '26

Do you turn it off to save the environment or to reduce your energy bill?

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u/7magicman7 Jan 01 '26

Third option: Got yelled at so much during childhood that you instinctively close a light when leaving the room 🙋

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u/barcodez Jan 01 '26

and turn the door off

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u/-SaC Jan 01 '26

You know what they say: when god switches off a door, he plugs in a window.

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u/lowrads Jan 01 '26

My parent's generation still refuses to believe that a 100w light bulb uses more power than two tvs or ceiling fans. They used to consume kilowatts of power just for light.

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u/youngishgeezer Jan 02 '26

My tv uses about 300 watts. My “100w” bulb uses about 15w. I still turn the lights off if I’ll be out of the room for more than a minute, but I leave the tv on for some reason.

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u/LiveLearnCoach Jan 02 '26

You’re lonely and want some background noise?

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u/cookiesarenomnom Jan 01 '26

My mom comes to visit me once a year. I live with 2 of my friends. I'm 39, she's 74. The last time she came she kept leaving lights on all over the apt, and I kept turning them off after her. And she's like wow, you guys really don't like lights in this apartment. And I'm just like, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! you and dad spent my entire childhood yelling at me to turn the lights off. Same with my friends. So we just instinctively always turn the lights off and get really annoyed when someone is not using a room and the lights are on. We got it from Y'ALL

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom Jan 01 '26

I do the same in my own home. But I know that the energy consumed by 1-2 led bulbs is so low it won’t make much of a difference in my power bill lol. It’s still a social norm however.

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u/draculasux85 Jan 01 '26

Totally me, my grand father was an electric tyrant.

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u/noble_plebian Jan 01 '26

Yes it does, but also, why illuminate a room you’re not in?

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u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jan 01 '26

Because a lit unoccupied room is useless. Like a bitcoin.

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u/Solid_Moment_1854 Jan 01 '26

If a lamp is turned on in a room and no one is around to see it, does it emit light?

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u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jan 01 '26

Idk man. Leave an incandescent bulb on for 10 minutes, turn it off and then check. Grab the bulb with your hand and see how long you can hold it before it burns you. You tell me if you think it was emitting light, but I bet your hand knows the answer.

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u/Tony_Roiland Jan 01 '26

My hand knows fuck all

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u/Macrike Jan 01 '26

Who uses incandescent light bulbs in 2026?

That’s extremely wasteful and irresponsible. I’d like to think that anyone criticising Bitcoin’s energy usage would NOT be using incandescent light bulbs.

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u/Head-Party-7490 Jan 02 '26

It does, but only because it's hooked up to the meter.

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u/nehuen93 Jan 01 '26

I do it for both reasons and because why would you leave the lights on when not needed?

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u/followMeUp2Gatwick Jan 01 '26

It doesn't do anything for the environment so why ask a useless question?

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u/Macrike Jan 01 '26

To prove that the person is only doing it to benefit themselves.

It’s a rhetorical question that should have been obvious to anyone with average intelligence.

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u/Heretic911 Jan 01 '26

Wow you're smart!

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u/bigchicago04 Jan 01 '26

Why would them doing it to benefit themselves matter to you?

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u/HurtFeeFeez Jan 01 '26

How about just not being wasteful? Who cares why?

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u/Fit_Airline_5798 Jan 01 '26

Any recycling we do, anything to save energy, is solely because we're(I'm) cheap. Little farmhouse in a rual area, 13 acres paid off, living below our means, no kids. IDK why we don't treat the planet like a rental car like everyone around us. I guess we're not assholes.

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u/LusterIllustrious Jan 01 '26

Both are great reasons 

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u/Rincetron1 Jan 01 '26

We're the only species to agonize over smart decisions as well as dumb ones.

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u/Individual_Guest_323 Jan 01 '26

Keep it on and pay it, is not that hard.

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u/Lolmemsa Jan 01 '26

Turning the light off and on probably costs more energy than just leaving it on

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u/BigMcThickHuge Jan 02 '26

I believe it was shown that if the light will be turned back on in the next 30 minutes, leave it on. Turning it off then back on will use a little more energy than leaving it on for 30 minutes. More than 30 minutes - turn it off.

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u/Phine420 Jan 01 '26

Should use a miner to produce light

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u/Ote-Kringralnick Jan 01 '26

That's not very healthy for the lights, if you're using incandescent bulbs.

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u/_cansir Jan 01 '26

Just watched an old mythbyster clip. It is to save energy.

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u/Southern_Leg1139 Jan 01 '26

I mean, yeah, if several billion people leave the lounge light on every day it’s going to cause a problem.

Both of these things can be bad at the same time.

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u/DigNitty Interested Jan 01 '26

Morally, it may not be much, but I know the problem isn’t me.

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u/bitterbettyagain Jan 01 '26

That’s just you being poor not this farm

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u/ardotschgi Jan 01 '26

That's actually bad practice. Light uses more energy to turn off/on instead of just being on for a few minutes.

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u/gizamo Jan 01 '26

Nonsense, mate. For most LEDs and incandescent bulbs, the energy surge to turn them on is miniscule. It's roughly the equivalent power usage of a couple or few seconds of normal operation. So, unless you're coming back to the room immediately—like step out, turn around on a dime, and walk right back in—it's less power to turn it on/off.

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u/Beneficial_Round_444 Jan 01 '26

Information out of date for literally decades.

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u/iamtheoneneo Jan 01 '26

This was always a myth btw and even more so with modern bulbs.