An Australian Inventor Wants to Stop Global Warming by Electrifying Everything

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8 pointsandrewl3 comments

> Griffith was ashamed to discover that he was consuming 18,000 watts of energy a year

Watts are a unit of power, not energy. Do they mean watt-hours?

Forget about it, it's a fluff piece to advertise his new book.

18,000 watt-hours isn't much for an entire year either.

18,000 watt years is far more than a typical house would use, but perhaps a big house with AC or heating jammed on all year while mining bitcoins could manage it...

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