Energy Waste
In domestic heating systems with pilot lights it has been estimated that on average half the total energy usage is from the pilot light, each pilot light using between 240 and 500 watts of gas power (between 8 and 16 gigajoules/year). That said, the heat from a pilot light in many appliances (furnaces, space heaters, hot water heaters) is generally released in the same chamber as the primary burner.
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