Americans Are No Longer Gluttons for Electricity—Thank the LED Bulb
For more than five years, Americans have been doing something decidedly un-American: We've been using less electricity.
Today's appliances and electronics are more efficient. New homes are tighter and better insulated. And most important, light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, have replaced traditional incandescent lightbulbs.
–Wall Street Journal via Apple News+
OK, the electric savings in California are temporary and highly unwelcome, and furthermore (much further) a "green new deal" that envisions electrifying virtually every form of transportation, not to mention household commercial heating systems will way more than reverse this downward trend.
If you're working in the wind- or solar-power generation industries, you're good for a long time to come.
Still.
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