> They're just measuring the total power used in the home; lighting > is not separated.
I acknowledged that twice already. > So it says *nothing* about how many light are on in buildings. Correct. What it says is that 10 different things they did break out, and the total power used, follows a nice, smooth predictable Weibull logarithmic distribution with a smooth flowing tail approaching zero unlike your suspicion earlier. I think it's reasonable to extrapolate on that dataset and conclude "Lighting probably follows a similar shape, it's not random dots, it's not linear, it doesn't have double or triple peaks, etc" If you want data on lighting itself, one of the earlier papers I linked broke out not just into lighting, but 3 categories of lighting (I think Living room lights, bedroom lights, and some other room set). They counted not just the amount of bulbs, but the wattage of bulbs and the amount of time the bulbs were on. They calculated not just the median amounts, but separately broken out standard deviations for each set of rooms in the entire dataset. I though it was extraordinarily thorough and conclusive on the topic of lighting specifically. You disagreed with it though. That's fine. The only thing that study didn't show was the actual dataset, and whether it was actually reasonable to call it "normal" and to actually use the standard deviation. Hence the study you're talking about now. So I dug up that one just to show that yep... sure seems like every single type of electricity follows that shape. What I think would be interesting is if anyone can dig up a source that shows some kind of surprise distribution that is unique for lighting specifically and shows how it doesn't mirror the other 10 tracked types of electrical usage from the previous study. That would make me pause and reflect on the validity of these other studies. But that's kinda what you'd have to hinge your argument on because between the other 5 papers I found, looks like a pretty solidly figured issue that it's not the case. So, go nuts and find some data if that's what you think. I couldn't find anything that says that, so, it's good brainstorming but seems like there's not much reason to doubt any of these sources. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
