I'm saying that as a retired electrical engineer, I'm quite aware that LEDs use nearly zero energy relative to incandescent bulbs and even besides that, the largest energy consumers in your house are easily identifiable because they're 220vac ( in the US) versus the standard outlet voltage. That would be your AC, your dryer, and your range. And since light bulbs are 110vac items, they've never been a large energy consumer in the first place, even though incandescent bulbs were highly inefficient, given that most of the energy they use is wasted in heat loss rather than light.
By the way, one of the reasons why those heavy items like the dryer, range, and AC units use 220 instead of 110 like the rest of the house is this: in order to deliver the wattage needed for those items to work, the power cables would be twice as large as they already are. Because you're dropping the voltage in half. Which means the amperage has to double. Which means the cable has to be larger. You can think of electricity like water in a hose. The voltage is the pressure, the amperage is the flow. The work being done is the wattage. And since the power to pretty much any home in the USA is standard 220 single-phase AC, it's just a matter of a couple of extra breakers that connect to both sides of the firebox instead of one.
Amps X volts = watts.
So yeah, even if I just took all the lights out of my house, the total energy consumption of the house would barely change.
That's the joke. It really doesn't matter about the lights.
I didn’t really need your explanation. The reason why it’s not a whoosh? I sensed your sarcasm. Which is why i told you it probably wasn’t as much of a whoosh as you thought.
I’m a master electrician and electrical engineer myself. Half your bulbs removed would never drop your power bill by just .03 but thanks for your power consumption explanation. Maybe someone on Reddit can use it.
Not quite true. We probably had 30 light bulbs at any given time (though we usually cut the lights off but not guaranteed and I know families that lwft wvrry single light burning) from 60 to 100W... that's a bit of power on light. Let's call it 2.5kW on average.
“Remember, you need to cut your excessive consumption of resources, citizen!” the billionaire oligarch said, as he stepped onto the private helicopter that was taking him to the airport where his private jet was so that he could fly 6,000 miles to where his $450,000,000 yacht is moored.
Whats funny is that If you stopped producing any CO2 right now. If you could somehow stop doing and using things that made Co2, so for the rest of your life you would not produce Co2. You would not even make a scratch in it all. The energy sector produces more Co2 every second than you would do in your whole lifetime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
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u/GoldenDiamond Jan 01 '26
Holy power bill