Day: January 24, 2020
Wasted Effort by Environmentalists
I just don’t understand why “vampire loads” got all the attention from anti-coal environmentalists last decade. They are so insignificant compared to things like refrigerators and water heaters. A quarter watt “vampire load” costs you something like $0.37 a year (running 24/7/365 at $0.17/kWh). Meanwhile, an electric water heater is…