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US centric electricity prices view :)

Also, it's not just your site. It's every site. And the customer pays all those millionths of a penny added up out of their pocket. And all those 5 second delays out of their lifetime.

Edit: btw at a quick glance you underestimated cell phone soc TDP by a 2-4 factor.



A single use of an electric kettle sounds like it would completely dominate this consumption.

The time cost is certainly the greatest expense here, power is cheap in consumer computing contexts, generally speaking (at least nowadays with most things racing to sleep), and is mostly relevant because of battery life, not power cost.


> A single use of an electric kettle sounds like it would completely dominate this consumption.

But at least that gets you tea, instead of engagement.

You've got to put X joules in to boil Y liters of water. No choice there, except giving up on the tea.

You can greatly reduce the joules necessary to see cat photos though. And you don't have to give up on seeing the cat photos.




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