It was estimated back when incandescent was standard.
Keep in mind that’s not accounting for energy consumed from neurons burning oxygen, which accounts for 20% of a human body’s consumption.
Comment on brains!
bjorney@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Brain uses more wattage than a lightbulb, unless we are counting incandescent bulbs because it makes the stat seem more impressive.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
20% of your bodies energy is about 20 Watts.
Normal-weight humans burn about 2200 kilocalories a day, which is about 9.2 megajoules. There are 8640 seconds in a day, so that works out to roughly 100 joules per second, or 100 Watt.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well done. So even added to the electrical consumption it’s less than an incandescent bulb. Incredible.
psud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
But not electrical. 20W of power, but not electrical power
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s rest consumtion tho.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That phrase first came out when incandescent bulbs were the most common, so they consumed like 60W vs 7W for an equivalent LED bulb. The brain is somewhere around 20W.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I don’t give a damn about Lemmy points, but you just said essentially the same thing as the above commenter and the Lemmy points are diametrically opposed. I love it!
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah? I care even less about Lemmy points. Watch as I fearlessly downvote myself!
bjorney@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah and LED bulbs were the norm 15-20 years ago. my point is this is a repost of a Reddit repost of a Tumblr comment that was reposting a factoid that was already wrong when it was originally posted 5-6 years ago.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Your timeline is incorrect. 15 years ago was 2009, when CFLs were most common. A 60W equivalent CFL was 13W and 100W equivalent was 23W. My house was still mostly incandescent bulbs with some CFLs for bulbs that had died and weren’t on a dimmer. Commercial LED bulbs intended for residential use only started being released in 2009-2010 with incentive from the US government.
bjorney@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Ok, not in the US so idk. the last CFL bulb I bought was long before 2009.
Either way, the brain still uses more power than a 13W CFL, and the tumblr post is from 2018, and the Reddit post is even more recent. “It would have been technically correct if it was posted 20 years ago” doesn’t really change the fact that it’s not true anymore