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by gdhkgdhkvff 438 days ago
And for reference, it takes around $10/year to run a single efficient indoor LED lightbulb. So charging a cell phone for a years-worth of usage costs less than 1/10th of running an efficient LED lightbulb bulb for the full year.

Again, cell phones are just confusingly not energy intensive.