Never ceases to amaze me how entire floors are lit all night long while unoccupied. What a waste of energy. Doesn’t matter if it’s left on for janitorial staff, they can be shown where the “off” switch is. Businesses often pay a flat rate for power, so they see no reason to shut the lights off as their bill doesn’t change one way or the other.
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It was especially infuriating in Austin during the snowpocalypse when entire neighborhoods were without power (and heating) and you can see the empty (because pandemic) downtown area lit like a christmas tree in the background.
They may have generators to keep things like servers online. Or it may just be capital gets protected and the average person gets hosed. It was the same story when NYC had that big blackout a while back. People lost all their food and were sweltering, but Times Square was still all lit up.
It is very common for businesses to have service level agreements with utility companies that are on a higher priority grid tie than regular pleb utilities. Business Internet often has higher priority than consumer, business cellular often has higher priority, etc. We citizens are last place in our nation.
Texas cares about wildlife?
Texans care, individually.
"No, our power grid isn't failing again, it's, um... Protecting migrating birds! Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Wait, I thought it was the windmills killing birds. That's what Trump said. You mean Texas is going to keep its over 15,000 wind turbines?
Maybe, oil and gas companies are trying to kill clean energy.
I was curious why this is effective.
The influence of artificial light in urban spaces is a well-known phenomenon among birds, but is still not fully understood. Birds tend to migrate by night, and use the stars to navigate. By day, they use the position of the Sun to orient themselves. During nocturnal migration, they are often seen gathering around or crashing into lit-up windows and structures, or gathering around beams of projected life. The artificial glow of cities also appears to attract them for stopovers. One explanation is that they may generally fly towards light sources, but also, that the artificial light confuses, traps and disorients them.
I wonder if it's a deer in the headlights effect or more like moths?
Prolly more like moths, except moths try to keep the light on their backs as opposed to their forward position.