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Do you have an idea of your share of the embodied energy of all the items you use in the course of your life?

To give you an idea, if you have bought a new laptop and phone, that's around another 3000kWh already.

I have 10 years old pc and bought new phone after 3 years. So 3000+3000/10+3000/3=4300

+products, so it will be 5-6k in total. Still not much.

Excellent. Now do the same for your house, your furniture, your mode of transport, what you do for work...etc etc.

So you don't buy - clothes - food - any cloud services - electronics - furniture ? Cause they would all require input of energy to harvest, process and ship

You don't use any products or services that require energy to function?

House hold energy use is pretty much insignificant except in locations where the AC runs all day.

Or where we have to heat the house most of the year. I think there's a small part of all the houses that requires neither heating or cooling.

That's about 350W, if my calculations are right?