US Residential electricity use in 2022: 1477 billion kWH. [1] 6% constitutes about 88 billion kWh according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
As of August 2022, published estimates of the total global electricity usage for crypto-assets are between 120 and 240 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a range that exceeds the total annual electricity usage of many individual countries, such as Argentina or Australia.[2]
Then again, the US is the third most populous country in the world with a population of 330 million. It's also second in yearly electricity consumption globally after China (4 million GWh vs 8 million GWh).[3]
In that regard, your equivalence is false. Sure, dryers clearly use up a ton of electricity and it's perfectly reasonable to question the value of having your clothes dried by an electrical machine. Then again, clearly crypto uses a ton of electricity as well, while you could equally argue that there are clear alternatives, which don't require all of that just to be able to have a means of payment.
Of course, the meta discussion being that laundry drying machines have a clear marketable value and direct use to the vast majority of the U.S population, whereas with cryptocurrencies, the vote is very much still out there.
As of August 2022, published estimates of the total global electricity usage for crypto-assets are between 120 and 240 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a range that exceeds the total annual electricity usage of many individual countries, such as Argentina or Australia.[2]
Then again, the US is the third most populous country in the world with a population of 330 million. It's also second in yearly electricity consumption globally after China (4 million GWh vs 8 million GWh).[3]
In that regard, your equivalence is false. Sure, dryers clearly use up a ton of electricity and it's perfectly reasonable to question the value of having your clothes dried by an electrical machine. Then again, clearly crypto uses a ton of electricity as well, while you could equally argue that there are clear alternatives, which don't require all of that just to be able to have a means of payment.
Of course, the meta discussion being that laundry drying machines have a clear marketable value and direct use to the vast majority of the U.S population, whereas with cryptocurrencies, the vote is very much still out there.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-power-use-rise-20... [2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09-202... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...