| ▲ | scottndecker 3 hours ago |
| If everyone turned off their lights 100% of the time they left their workstation, they could power those additional data centers for about one second. |
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| ▲ | hakunin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Just use smart lights that feed video into an llm to check if lights should shut down. |
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| ▲ | imhoguy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Turn off computers and phones. No need for DCs then. |
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| ▲ | burnte 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Billionaries are willing to have us make that sacrifice! |
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| ▲ | skeeter2020 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| not to mention you'll get much farther, faster & easier with timers on the lights than some sort of 100% voluntary participation dream. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | ever been in a room of people sitting in cubicles where the lights are controlled by motion sensor to automatically turn off the lights after a set period of no motion? fun times. it took way longer to get that switch replaced than it should have | | |
| ▲ | shagie an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I was a contractor at Sun in '97, Palo Alto campus. Initially they put me in a shared office, and that was ok. Later, I got moved to a hallway. My machine had a hard reboot that first night... I lost my unsaved work and at that point I made it a point of religiously saving my work each evening when I went home... because each night my machine rebooted. One day it was rather quiet. Might have been day before a long weekend, but it was a slow day in the building - very few people were walking about. I was working... and then my machine lost power. I stood up to figure out what was going on and my machine got power back. Ok... followed power cords to the wall. It was plugged into a gray outlet (rather than white outlet). The gray outlets were hooked up to the motion sensor that was for the hall lighting. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 an hour ago | parent [-] | | While that is an interesting issue to deal with, I was totally lost at the concept of not saving before going home. I can't go five minutes without saving, and you were willing to leave the "room" without saving? That's just one of those things so outside my normal that I got lost in thinking about it especially as matter of fact as it was recited. You live in a different realm my friend. |
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| ▲ | fluorinerocket an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes there are a bunch of terrible ideas in this thread. Video camera controlled lights? Yes f privacy of everyone to save a few bucks? well I think that was sarcastic Motion controlled lights are always timed badly, incredibly annoying to have them switch off when you are sitting still working or taking a duece. How about the janitor shuts off the lights after everyone goes home? | | |
| ▲ | conductr 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | How about just forget about this thread and don’t let it be a major annoyance. It’s a very minor annoyance. It would be a more widespread debate/discussion if so many people were upset by it. At the least, just admit you’re in the minority that are so upset by it and then just live with it anyways. I say that to make a point about magnitude of annoyances. Sure it’s annoying. So are potholes. It does seem like a slightly smarter device could be built. The times it happens to me, and I wave my hands in the air to turn lights back on, it’s not that annoying. When I’m there for 3 more hours and I have to do it every 5-10 minutes. That’s more annoying. So the simple thing to do is to program the thing to incrementally increase its timer length. 5/10/20/30 minutes might be less annoying. Also if motion is detected a short time after the no motion timer triggers, that’s probably a sign there was someone present the entire time. Can adjust the logic with that in mind too. The current devices are fine it’s the logic that was lazy. | | |
| ▲ | Liftyee 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Smarter device would just require a little more cost. Current devices can work with no code, just analog electronics. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's something to be said about having lights on in a room that is not occupied the entire time the lights are on. Before LED lighting, it was a decent attempt at reducing unnecessary lighting. |
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| ▲ | emsign 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Who needs public schools anyway? I pay my kid's teachers salary directly." |
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| ▲ | sokoloff 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Those aren’t the same unit. “Everyone turned off their lights” relates to power. “Power datacenters for one second” relates to energy. |
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| ▲ | cwillu 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You dropped the time component from the first, so yes, the result is incomparable. “Power spent on lighting worstations while vacant” is energy | | |
| ▲ | Dr_Emann 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think so, "while vacant" is an infinite amount of time, if you look infinitely far into the future. | |
| ▲ | sokoloff an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Assume that each workstation is lit by 100W of lighting and is vacant 18 hours per day (to make the math easy). I claim that's 75W of power that could be reclaimed by turning off a 100W load 75% of the time. Explain how you get to energy or how I dropped time, please. | | |
| ▲ | cwillu 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 2400 watt hours in a day, being reduced to 600 watt hours. If you're not going to be charitable in interpreting comments, then perhaps this isn't the venue for you. | | |
| ▲ | sokoloff 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Uh... Watt-hours per day reduces to Watts in dimensional analysis, which is of course my original point. |
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