If it was up to me I'd just ban outdoor advertising outright
German digital signage ban prompts confusion
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Bigger problems in Germany are the lack of big power lines between the North and South and of course the reluctance to build more wind energy. Especially Bavaria has been shooting its own feet several times, even built a gas power station a few years back and now it's in a bit of a panic...
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#13This is a cult. Government is implementing micromanaging measure which may reduce energy consumtion by 1%, but on the other hand they do not want to extend the lifetime of nuclear reactors for a few years to help transition, because those 3% that they contribute are not worth it.
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#14I wish the whole world would do this stuff. Light pollution sucks. It's understandable from street lights but other sources aren't as excusable.
At first I loved LED street lights because I could see so much better by them (and I presume that they have an increased deterrent effect on crime though I have not checked this).
These days I think disrupting wildlife is more important than human safety and I wish we could get rid of nearly all street lighting.
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#15This is going to be interesting to watch, as many low-end digital signage solutions do not have the ability to fully shut off the displays they’re attached to (and I suspect some high-end billboards will have displays fully decoupled from media players, etc.)
They will just cut the power to them.
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#16I wish the whole world would do this stuff. Light pollution sucks. It's understandable from street lights but other sources aren't as excusable.
Even outdoor lighting is not without problems, especially two recent trends are worrying:
- shift from low-pressure sodium lamps (which emit 95%+ of light in the narrow peak, so are a bit easier to filter out in astronomy application, and also don't trigger blue-light neural response in humans, and animals alike) to LEDs (which pollute across the visible spectrum, with plenty of blue light component);
- as light efficiency increases, people often choose to utilize it to increase lighting intensity within same electric power budget, rather than keep same output in lumens, and save some power.
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Power issues in Europe will be big enough going into the winter that the few German nuclear power plants will likely the least of our issues.
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#18This will chiefly affect commercial billboards and the like, which should not be even allowed to ever emit light (or exist) IMNSHO.
I n NL we have human size billboards that have active cooling for crying out loud. When you walk past them, you hear a loud fan.
Just such a waste of energy. I wish advertising should only be forbidden to use active lighting at all.
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#19This is a cult. Government is implementing micromanaging measure which may reduce energy consumtion by 1%, but on the other hand they do not want to extend the lifetime of nuclear reactors for a few years to help transition, because those 3% that they contribute are not worth it.
They should do both
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#20How much electricity can plausibly be saved this way? And how does that compare to the energy required to reprogram and possibly renew all these signs?