Saul Griffith--an MIT-trained scientist, MacArthur genius grant recipient and serial entrepreneur whose ventures include a kite for extracting power from atmospheric winds –discovered back in 2007 that he lived an 18,000 watt lifestyle.
That is to say, the energy required to put bottled drinks in his fridge, run his computers and get from point A to point B came to 18 kilowatts, or more than five times the global average of 2,400 watts. (The average American needs 11,400 watts.)
He dropped it to 2,291 watts. How? Things like eating local and cutting out mean send the energy required for food from 772 watts to 376. Socks? Gone. But the whopper savings came in transportation. Swapping out a car for an all-electric three-wheeled bike dropped local transportation from 1,500 watts to 258.
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