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by ztrww 1025 days ago
> 0.12 percent of world electricity

That seems a lot? I’d have guessed it’s a magnitude or two less

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It probably is order of magnitude less in reality since I was looking at worst case - chargers are actually 70-sh percent efficient not 50 which almost halves it. Also far from everyone on the planet has a mobile phone, let alone high end flagship.

What I mean is that there are much easier fruits to pick without sacrificing even tiny bit quality of life.

The estimate was given assuming every person on the planet fully charged their phone every day.

The number's going to be higher than reality.