[tbran]

The silly, pedantic takeaway for many in this thread seems to be "everyone in the city should put solar on their apartment roof and eschew modern life".

It was actually "Life got better when I stopped watching Netflix and ordering takeout."

[crazygringo]

It's hard for me to see how cooking at home gets better when you need to go to the grocery store daily so your meat and milk won't spoil. As well as not be able to save any money by buying food in volume or saving leftovers.

At the end of the day, your produce is either being refrigerating by you or your local store. Not much of an energy difference either way, but it introduces a massive inconvenience.

[euroderf]

I would think that centralised refrigeration would be a big win. Maybe there's LCA on this.

[crazygringo]

At least at all the grocery stores I shop at, meat and cold veggies are on refrigerated shelves out in the open with no doors. While it's winter and the store is being heated.

I can't see any scenario where that's even remotely energy-efficient, compared to a home refrigerator with a door.