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Ledger: add 'Roughly equivalent to' comparison column

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul Campbell 8b60de5c01fa82f6057484968e66986d07d8d853 parent f0c62e0
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
<th>What happened</th>
<th>Est. energy</th>
<th>Est. CO&#8322;e</th>
+ <th>Roughly equivalent to</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 21, 2026</td>
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
GitHub Pages. About 40 model invocations.</td>
<td>~40 Wh</td>
<td>~16 g</td>
+ <td>Charging a phone from flat, three times over</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 21, 2026</td>
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
<td>Reordered the links on the home page. About 6 model invocations.</td>
<td>~6 Wh</td>
<td>~2.5 g</td>
+ <td>An hour of a 6&nbsp;W LED bulb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 21, 2026</td>
@@ -53,6 +56,7 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
<td>Added this page. About 8 model invocations.</td>
<td>~8 Wh</td>
<td>~3 g</td>
+ <td>35 seconds of an 800&nbsp;W microwave</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 21, 2026</td>
@@ -64,6 +68,7 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
About 15 model invocations.</td>
<td>~15 Wh</td>
<td>~6 g</td>
+ <td>One full phone charge</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 21, 2026</td>
@@ -73,12 +78,23 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost.</p>
<td>Sharpened the editorial line below. About 5 model invocations.</td>
<td>~5 Wh</td>
<td>~2 g</td>
+ <td>Half a kilometre on an e-bike</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>July 21, 2026</td>
+ <td>&ldquo;ALong with Est. energy and Est. CO&#8322;e, can we have a column that
+ does a random comparison like the &lsquo;boiling water&rsquo;
+ comparison?&rdquo;</td>
+ <td>Added this column. About 6 model invocations.</td>
+ <td>~6 Wh</td>
+ <td>~2.5 g</td>
+ <td>45 minutes of a home Wi-Fi router</td>
</tr>
</table>
-<p><b>Running total:</b> ~74 Wh, ~30 g CO&#8322;e &mdash; roughly the energy it takes
-to boil three-quarters of a litre of water, or the emissions of driving a petrol car
-about 180 metres.</p>
+<p><b>Running total:</b> ~80 Wh, ~32 g CO&#8322;e &mdash; roughly the energy it takes
+to boil four-fifths of a litre of water, or the emissions of driving a petrol car
+about 190 metres.</p>
<h2>Method</h2>