Renewable Energy-Powered Billboard Coming To New York's Times Square

Renewable Energy-Powered Billboard Coming To New York's Times Square

Architectural vanity and billboard lighting will eventually go the way of the blue-fin tuna, helping conserve electric power for more vital uses like running elevators, lighting traffic signs, or cooking groaty-tasting tilapia that will, by that time, be the epitome of "sea food". It will be several decades before such changes come to pass, of course. And they will be driven not by regulation, but by the high cost of electric power. In the meantime, green washing efforts like this one illustrate how much energy is being squandered on outdoor lighting. Scale this up to the many thousands of metropolis' with brightly lit city squares and to the outdoor lighting around hundreds of thousands of suburban strip malls:-