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Started by In_Tulsa, July 21, 2011, 12:22:14 PM

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TheTed

The neon color changing lights on the big glass wall on the south side of the arena are good enough. Nice but not overpowering. I wish they'd fire it up more often, not just for events.
 

Hoss

Quote from: TheTed on July 21, 2011, 10:47:31 PM
The neon color changing lights on the big glass wall on the south side of the arena are good enough. Nice but not overpowering. I wish they'd fire it up more often, not just for events.

They used to, before they realized how much it was costing them.

patric

Quote from: Hoss on July 21, 2011, 11:05:05 PM
They used to, before they realized how much it was costing them.

As it turns out, even billboards made from "energy saving LEDs" can spin the meter when you start talking thousands of LEDs -- something on the order of 30x the power an average home uses:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/do-digital-billboards-waste-energy/ 
"Tulsa will lay off police and firemen before we will cut back on unnecessarily wasteful streetlights."  -- March 18, 2009 TulsaNow Forum