energy crisis and these pointless 24/7 advertising panels

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1. Someone made stickers pointing out that these use as much energy as 4 Irish households each year. Lots of reasons for the energy crisis and lots of players in it but absolutely ridiculous that advertising like this gets planning permission and takes up public space.

2. I wonder how much energy this dude wasted printing these stickers.

3. I agree. But only because fuck ads.

4. Wtf like, are they mining crypto with them?

5. Of things I worry about ruining the environment this stands at rank number 130,865,486.

6. This post consumes energy on reddit’s servers… CPU, hard disk and memory usage.

7. Find me an energy efficient TV. Every single one F rated.

8. According to the sticker, those panels use almost 17kW per year??

   Samsung’s highest end display is an 85″ 8K Television, and it draws 475W at max (typical closer to 300, but we’ll use the max). That display includes stuff like speakers, smart TV OS, WiFi components etc etc.

   That’s 4166kW over the course of one year of being running 24/7 at max load. 2 screens, call it 8400kW.

   I can’t understand how these smaller panels, running at a much lower resolution are using almost double that? With corporate electricity costs, it’d massively run up the price of any ads running too.

9. France recently put a law to ban lighting display between hours of the night

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11. Was in German last month and due to the energy crisis they have now banned all lit up/lcd/screen advertising expect for between I think something like 6-10pm.

12. A 55” outdoor signage display uses about 95 watts during the day and 75 watts at night. Theyre nowhere near the consumption of a whole house.