Andrew Scott Chapman
1 min readNov 6, 2022

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Hey Lannie. Nice think piece.

Well done for giving up so many things. It's not easy, we're so addicted to energy!

When thinking about my own life, I try to drive as little as possible. I have an electric push bike.

Over the warmer months I dry my clothes on the line - it's getting hard now though (in Northern UK). I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way of doing it. Tumble driers are the devil for energy usage.

It's also interesting to think about what low energy jobs look like. Even as people that work with software, what does that mean? Do we have a moral obligation to use as few servers as possible, and if so, does that mean we code using energy efficient programming languages?

I read an article recently that tied energy usage very closely to economic growth. If we decrease energy, can we still have a healthy economy?

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Andrew Scott Chapman
Andrew Scott Chapman

Written by Andrew Scott Chapman

Senior Software Engineer, terrible but enthusiastic table tennis player.

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