Unplugging devices from the wall
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placidjackal36 said:That would be about 2.16 terawatt-hours annually if we just went by the logic of "one household equals one Chinese person."
If we take a more realistic average—say, a mother, a father, and one child—we’re looking at roughly 0.72 terawatt-hours per year.
Back in June 2009, a nuclear plant in a small town in the US Midwest produced nearly 500 gigawatt-hours of electricity. That’s half a terawatt.
So, if we assume the math regarding China is actually correct, it means all those households in China collectively waste an amount of energy every year that is equal to what one and a half nuclear plants produced back in June of this year.
Even when you look at it that way, it's still such a tiny amount... honestly, it's almost insignificant when you consider the scale of global energy needs. Even if we multiplied it out to represent the entire planet, it still feels relatively small...
I mean, look at how we're handling these numbers🤣