ramble81@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIt's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1157arrow-down1message-squareIt's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.ramble81@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRcklsabndn@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoJust heard the quote, ‘Toasters weren’t invented to make toast, they were invented to sell electricity.’
minus-squareczardestructo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat’s silly, they really don’t use much power in the grand scheme of things. It uses a lot of power for a very short period, a small blip. Big power consumption comes from things that run often or all the time. It compounds.
Just heard the quote, ‘Toasters weren’t invented to make toast, they were invented to sell electricity.’
That’s silly, they really don’t use much power in the grand scheme of things. It uses a lot of power for a very short period, a small blip. Big power consumption comes from things that run often or all the time. It compounds.