I've never wanted an Alienware laptop in my life, but as a resident of Oregon there is absolutely nothing more that I want right now than an illegally powerful laptop.
Same difference.
Though the laws typically have many exceptions and take effect over time, so saying “incandescent bulbs are illegal” is a somewhat strong statement.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
Basically the law says Thou Shalt Not Ship a Computer Without Working Idle.
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Handwashing wastes energy compared to using a dishwasher, because it uses significantly more water that costs energy to purify.
This must be based on a horribly inefficient method of hand washing. Google says that a modern, efficient dishwasher uses about 3 gallons of water per load. I just went and measured the volume of my kitchen sink to roughly where it gets filled to when I'm washing an equivalent of a full dishwasher's load of dishes, and it came out to a bit over 3 gallons.
If it's not summer, I then let my hot sink water sit until it's cooled down to room temperature to avoid wasting heat.
As a general rule of thumb, the guide here is to track heat and where it goes. Hot water down the drain is a bad thing to be avoided as much as possible. Dishwashers reuse a small amount of hot water repeatedly in an insulated box until it’s fully spent (from a cleaning perspective). Hand washing sends a continuous stream of hot, soapy water down the drain, wasting both water, soap, and the energy required to bring that water up to temperature.
Targeted incentives and regulations, in contrast, can force industries to adapt quickly in ways that we know are actually not economically painful. (You just gotta enable low power mode on your laptops Dell, seriously it’s not hard just stop whining and do it.) Yeah it is a bit annoying, but it’s just annoying, no worse - not like putting a carbon tax on concrete which would be super expensive, basically impossible to avoid, and drag down economic growth everywhere.
But in the case of dishwashing vs. hand washing you are already paying for the decreased efficiency in the form of your water and heating bill. The issue is that most of us have no way to measure the relative hot water consumption of either, so we’re left with the heuristic of “more convenient is less efficient”.
And the source should be cleaned up since that is a vastly bigger lever impacting all loads. This is just limiting consumer choice for a largely symbolic gesture. I would also be really surprised if the rule is kept up to date and relevant, vs left in the codebase to rot.
Half the issues you've listed are most certainly due to incompetence/mismanagement rather than PCs in CA/CO/HI/OR/VT using slightly more power. eg.
wildfires: Gov. Gavin Newsom cut the fire prevention budget by $150 million https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/gov-newsom-overst...
power outages: failure on PG&E's part to trim trees https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-...
Well duh, but since we're talking about climate change we should be comparing against a counterfactual where climate change hasn't happened. I'm sure heat/drought existed prior to global warming. Did wild fires not exist back then? Should Newsom be let off the hook for his budget cuts because the forest was going to catch fire anyways due to global warming?
The Climate may be famously closed to negotiation, but it doesn't mean human artifice need exacerbate the problem through avoiding doing necessary work.
You ask how to convert it into a rain forest? How about heating the ocean offshore, so more water evaporates?