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Lighting: 2W
Heating: 5W
Cooking: 3W
Gaming Computer: 90W
Please help me budget this. My family is dying
Heating and cooking can be done with masonry ovens and rocket mass stoves. If you combine the principles of chest freezers and root cellars, you can cut refrigeration energy by 90% or more. Geothermal climate control is basically 2 fans at the ends of a 60-foot tube that's 6 feet underground, gives you air that's basically the annual climate average all year round. If you use only the lighting you need, and have LED bulbs that are super cheap nowadays, you can get by with 20 Wh each hour from sundown to about midnight.
So yeah 90% on a computer is exactly what it would be for someone like me.
No you were supposed to say "Spend less on computer" and I'd say "no"
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That's neat info, I love the application of engineering to environmentally conscious ends