And have an easily accessed setting to turn it all off if you don’t want it. I’d even be okay with a physical switch. The short answere is, your appliance should do what you and only you want it to do, and you should be able to enforce that.

Lol this is the typical takeaway. A better result would be to not engage in illegal practices and then it doesn’t matter if you put it in writing, but that’s not how you become a billionaire.

Well, I could counter that point, which I already said was valid, but I already gave those points and you completely ignored them. Continue as you are, I’m sure it gives some relief from any feelings of responsibility for your actions and the carbon emitted to allow it.

The very graph you posted indicates that the US needs to reduce their CO2 emissions by 1/3 to meet the per capita emissions of China, and a good part of China’s energy consumption is producing goods that are used around the world. Their ratio of renewables to fossil is also increasing. Yes, that isn’t helping climate change, and yes, it is improving the state of things for Chinese people, but don’t pretend that a lot of this industry isn’t directly driven by the lifestyles of people in the developed world.

It’s easy to point fingers at them for doing what the developed world has been doing for most of the last 200 years.

Why can’t we spend $20 billion on a full-scale reactor that may very well not work? Why is science so slow?