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the electricity you use to power all the lightbulbs in your house at night? Just like 20 -30 yrs ago there really weren't any personal devices that most people had to charge. Now there's usually a bunch. Not sure if that used to charge cell phones is a huge amount, though.

Not to mention bulbs are a lot more efficient than 20-30 yrs ago.

Also devices tend to draw a lot more power now when charging, BUT that's more to charge quicker than because they need more power, so they wouldn't use it for as long.

I think the most power-hungry device charging I'd be doing is my Ayaneo 2, which charges at 60W and takes about 2hrs from near-empty to full. My lightbulbs are all around the 7W mark, and there's 8 of them in the house but usually only 4 at most on at a time. But they'd be on for longer than my PC is charging too.

Now with all that being said, I'm on a 100% off-grid, solar setup and have enough capacity that it basically never runs out unless there's a few days of bad weather in a row, so I don't really have to worry too much about any of this.

Cell phones actually don't take much electricity at compared to all the light bulbs in your house iirc.

Traditional light globes were usually 40-60 watts or more each. Now with modern LEDs they are 2-12 watts depending on the technology and brightness.