Note: I’m visiting family in Seattle this week, so I’ve pre-scheduled some visuals for your daily perusal in lieu of normal emails, and there won’t be podcast episodes (we’ll be back to the normal way of doing things on Monday the 25th).
The impact of LED lights on electricity usage cannot be overstated: even as the need for lighting has increased (more lighting in areas that already had it, and new lighting in places that didn’t have it before), the energy required to power our collective bulbs has been shrinking precipitously.
Speaking of energy usage, in parts of the world where solid fuels (like dung, coal, and crop waste) are used for cooking, air pollution-linked deaths are quite high, and when regions transition over to different fuels (electricity, but also gas) those deaths begin to disappear.
