is that only including ac to cool homes, or does it include the waste spent on cooling empty office buildings? additionally, this is stat is very inflated by suburbia, which I am all for destroying and forcing the vast majority of people living in it back into apartment buildings, which I think would heavily drop this number too. how far exactly do you think we need to drop american energy consumption???
That includes price buildings yes. It’s not just residential consumption. We’d need to drop American energy consumption by at least half I’d guess because you can’t cleanly change the entire power grid out in a decade. You’d need way less cooling, almost no EVs and individual transport, elimination of the advertising industry, greatly reduced mining among other things. US electricity consumption is split near-evenly between residential, commercial, and industrial and the plurality of residential energy consumption goes to heating and cooling. The electricity consumption of AC is nowhere near negligible and needs to be reduced one way or another.
like I said I think destroying suburbia will pretty much fix this without needing to hyperfocus on making americans not use AC but I guess we’re both just spitballing here so idk if it’s worth arguing about
is that only including ac to cool homes, or does it include the waste spent on cooling empty office buildings? additionally, this is stat is very inflated by suburbia, which I am all for destroying and forcing the vast majority of people living in it back into apartment buildings, which I think would heavily drop this number too. how far exactly do you think we need to drop american energy consumption???
That includes price buildings yes. It’s not just residential consumption. We’d need to drop American energy consumption by at least half I’d guess because you can’t cleanly change the entire power grid out in a decade. You’d need way less cooling, almost no EVs and individual transport, elimination of the advertising industry, greatly reduced mining among other things. US electricity consumption is split near-evenly between residential, commercial, and industrial and the plurality of residential energy consumption goes to heating and cooling. The electricity consumption of AC is nowhere near negligible and needs to be reduced one way or another.
like I said I think destroying suburbia will pretty much fix this without needing to hyperfocus on making americans not use AC but I guess we’re both just spitballing here so idk if it’s worth arguing about