On: Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)

[pelario]

No one in the parent posts has said anything about "literally zero people".

The OP made a claim ("invented in 2017"), and this very claim is being criticized.

I found perplexing that you interpret the very same words in almost opposite ways.

[teknopaul → pelario]

I cant find it again but I read an article about how brightness goes up with technology and human spend roughly the same proportion of income on light. Kind of disproving the led efficiency is good for the environment argument. Not revolutionary, better to break that pattern.

[uoaei → teknopaul]

You contradict yourself.

If humans spend same proportion of income on lumens, and you get more lumens per watt, then you will use less wattage per the same proportion of income. Ergo LEDs are more efficient.

[zargon → uoaei]

Are you thinking about the cost of the physical lights? Because what is being discussed is the cost of energy.

[uoaei → zargon]

Watt-hours are energy. If cost of energy is decreasing and you get more lumens per watt with LEDs then the benefits stack, they do not cancel.

[zargon → uoaei]

If energy price is going down, then even more watts are being bought (since spending is fixed).

[uoaei → zargon]

Not all those watts are going into lighting. If spending is fixed on lighting but total expenditure is up that means energy is being bought for things other than lighting. Kirchoff's law applied to the grid in toto.

Adds up considering the proliferation of computing devices, particularly cryptomining.