Power consumption is cumulative, and load shedding should start from the least necessary to most. If we’re at the point where load shedding is necessary, turn off the fucking billboards first, then ask people to turn down their ACs. Doesn’t matter how much or little the billboards consume compared to ACs, they’re completely unnecessary compared to AC so they go first. And even after that, turn off the luxury commercial buildings like ball rooms and casinos before you tell people to turn stuff down in their homes.
As a European who has visited the US each summer for years and spent a NYE in NYC, I think the many extra degrees USians put on ate just as unnecessary.
I don’t think the consumption of even a few extra degrees of the whole population of NYC is even comparable to the consumption of Times Square.
I mean, YMMV. Lots of math behind the hardware that generates the climate, the insulation (or absence therein) that degrades unit temperature over time, the efficiency of Times Square light fixtures, yadda yadda yadda.
But there’s definitely a Bloomberg Era attitude towards resource consumption that amounts to “rich people can afford to live richly, poor people must learn to live poorly”. And then there’s a more materialist response, which asks the question “How do we maximize the quality of life at the minimum long term socio-economic cost?”
A regional government that tackles unit insulation, efficient energy transmission, and clean power sourcing does infinitely more to reduce carbon emissions than one that just hangs up billboards saying “Please Use Less”.
I don’t think the consumption of even a few extra degrees of the whole population of NYC is even comparable to the consumption of Times Square.
This, summed with what @freagle@lemmy.ml has already written, should be enough to rethink your upvote to this bad example.
Power consumption is cumulative, and load shedding should start from the least necessary to most. If we’re at the point where load shedding is necessary, turn off the fucking billboards first, then ask people to turn down their ACs. Doesn’t matter how much or little the billboards consume compared to ACs, they’re completely unnecessary compared to AC so they go first. And even after that, turn off the luxury commercial buildings like ball rooms and casinos before you tell people to turn stuff down in their homes.
As a European who has visited the US each summer for years and spent a NYE in NYC, I think the many extra degrees USians put on ate just as unnecessary.
I mean, YMMV. Lots of math behind the hardware that generates the climate, the insulation (or absence therein) that degrades unit temperature over time, the efficiency of Times Square light fixtures, yadda yadda yadda.
But there’s definitely a Bloomberg Era attitude towards resource consumption that amounts to “rich people can afford to live richly, poor people must learn to live poorly”. And then there’s a more materialist response, which asks the question “How do we maximize the quality of life at the minimum long term socio-economic cost?”
A regional government that tackles unit insulation, efficient energy transmission, and clean power sourcing does infinitely more to reduce carbon emissions than one that just hangs up billboards saying “Please Use Less”.
Indeed a bad example, still the principle is what’s important.
I would put the AC higher just to be petty