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sadreality ,

You don't get to cut emission likes this, you will stop eating meat tho so better people can fly on private jets. They deserve it, peasants don't deserve anything. Slave bitches!

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Its almost like people can do more than one thing.

sadreality ,

Correct peasants do all the things while better people do their jet setting and meat eating ;)

This is only fair

CharlesDarwin ,
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Well, meat eating should be cut way down; ideally to zero. But we’ll always have this disparity where some people will live better. It doesn’t mean the answer is to do nothing at all about systemic issues like meat.

ShadowRam ,

The main causes of remote workers’ reduced emissions were less office energy use, as well as fewer emissions from a daily commute.

I mean yeah, that makes sense,

But I wonder what the numbers are when it comes to everyone keeping their homes heated/cooled all day compared to communal heating/cooling of a building.

People working at home will increase their personal emissions to keep their home office heated/cooled, and I suspect you get more bang for your energy buck if they are all in one spot instead of spread out into multiple buildings.

So sure.. less office energy use, but increased home energy use...

I wonder how the study calculated that or even bothered...

jjjalljs ,

I don’t know about your home and office, but every office I worked in had atrocious heating and cooling. People wear hoodies inside all summer because the AC is set too low.

WarmSoda ,

Yup. You need a work hoodie for summer.
And there’s always that one girl that has a blanket.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , (edited )
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Or the lady who keeps bringing in a space heater and plugging it into their computer power strip despite being told repeatedly not to do that

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
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Or who keeps triggering the breaker because her space heater is melting things under her desk.

frickineh ,

It’s me. I’m the lady with the space heater (and the blanket, and the hoodie). I have garbage circulation, so I have to warm up my frozen fingers and toes a few times a day or I can’t get anything done. If there were any other outlets, I’d use those, but there aren’t because my building is old as balls.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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I pray that you may find a job that lets you work from the climate that suits you best. Probably tropical.

frickineh ,

No joke, I was born on a Pacific island, and I swear that set me up for life to crave 85 and humid all year round. Unfortunately, I live in CO, and I love this dumb state, so here we are. With space heaters and office blankets.

ShadowRam ,

definitely a perk working from home, you decide temperature/sound/etc.

But I'm talking from an overall society energy use perspective.

I'm curious if the energy efficiency of having people in one building compares to the energy efficiency of them spread out.

It will greatly vary, as some are already in apartment buildings sharing that efficiency, some are in better eff rated homes, some are in worse eff rated homes.

Not sure this study can accurately claim 54% .. even if they said +-10%, it's still probably way out to lunch.

jjjalljs ,

Don’t forget about all the useless TVs and monitors running in offices all the time.

And heating/cooling/lighting all the empty rooms.

Plus staff for cleaning and security.

You’re not wrong that it’d be interesting to see some data, but my intuition is offices are extremely wasteful in a lot of ways. I could be wrong though!

Trainguyrom ,

I remember reading about a study pre-pandemic that found remote work was greatly better from an emissions standpoint than in-office work and it mostly came down to the massive amounts of resources spent commuting, and if I remember correctly it even found the emissions cost of commuting by public transit to be significant enough to see improvement by remote work

sbv ,

I wonder what the numbers are when it comes to everyone keeping their homes heated/cooled all day compared to communal heating/cooling of a building.

District heating is popular in parts of the world. We could lower emissions caused by commuting and lower emissions due to shitty tiny furnaces.

Trainguyrom ,

District heating (and cooling) would also alleviate the problem of people continuing to run ancient furnaces and air conditioners that are simply too old and worn down to be effective

neanderthal ,

In the US, people typically drive cars to work. These cars are 3000-6000 pounds that move 20-30 miles by burning oiil at 25% efficiency while also polluting the air with brake and tire dust.

Xenxs ,

mild shock

Nougat ,

That's why I can sleep easy at night even though my house is heated by coal.

Honytawk ,

Because you are selfish? I mean good on you.

Trainguyrom ,

Ignoring all societal implications of burning coal, heating your own home by burning coal is super bad for your lungs!

Nougat ,

Yeah, but you should hear the cool sound it makes when they deliver a truckload of coal down the chute.

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