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i use between 1 and 2 MWh a month... Do you live underground and not have anything electronic? 1000KWh is 1MWh. I guess if one has all natural gas appliances and no need for air conditioning it's possible to get down to 333KWh a month.

i have owned and ran computers that used more than that a month, for goodness' sake.

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Between 1 and 2 MWh per year isnt that unusual.

For example in Germany the average per person per year is 1.3MWh.

that's 100KWh per month, which is ~3KWh per day. that's the equivalent of leaving a 100W incandescent bulb and a 100W equivalent LED bulb on for 24 hours a day.

You're telling me that the AVERAGE usage in germany is 1.25 incandescent bulbs 24/7?

my LAPTOP uses more power than that!

This is a family of 5 in the mid-Europe. We don't use electricity for heating or cooling, and we're still burning gasoline to drive around. These are pretty normal numbers around here.

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