• shitescalates@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    The amount of electricity used to charge phones is statistical dust. If you want to save electricity there are 1000 better places to worry about.

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      1 year ago

      Yep, definitely. A bigger problem is the additional heat generated, especially if the phone is also being used at the same time.

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      1 year ago

      Multiplying every phone in use by the average capacity loss at 50% that’s the best case scenario for loss ( ignoring the newer phones using significantly more power and glass to insulate). You do not have a statistically dust number of wasted carbon every day.

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        Let’s say everyone in the world has a smartphone and charges it 100% every day. Let’s say that it’s 4000 mah battery so they waste 2000 mah. This is very very generous. That’s 7.4 wh per person per day X 8b people X 365 days a year = 2.1x10^13 wh. In 2022 we used 1.7x10^17. Or 0.01% Like I said, statistical dust.