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100W is a lot. It is a couple of very old incandescent bulbs or ten 60W equivalent LED bulbs.


No, it’s ONE incandescent bulb. And much less than the bulbs that were needed to light a fairly large room. We used to have a lot of 100W lights until not many years ago, honestly I don’t see the problem in spending that amount of energy if you have no other means to access a fast internet connection.


perspective i guess - i used to use 2 100watt bulbs to light a single room.


For perspective, these will cost around $0.3 a day in electricity, when in the room you spend most of your time in.

And yes, that's easily over a hundred dollar a year.


It is a lot but it’s also outside so it won’t heat up your house and in most places it only adds up to about $10 a month or less on your power bill




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