How about reducing energy consumption?

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

Pittsburgh pledges to become a 'dark sky city'

https://www.ksby.com/news/national/pittsburgh-pledges-to-become-a-dark-sky-city-in-2022

Pittsburgh will become a "dark sky city" this year. It's common for smaller localities in the western U.S., but not for cities of Pittsburgh's size and for cities on the East Coast.

Pittsburgh says it will switch to lower-wattage LED streetlamp light bulbs to reduce light pollution.

"Light pollution severely affects the natural environment pollinators, and bird migration, fireflies," said Diane Turnshek, a special lecturer in the Carnegie Mellon University physics department.

The city also says the move will increase energy efficiency. They expect to replace around 40,000 streetlights, which will reduce overall energy consumption between 40-50%.

"Street lighting is a major component of our electrical bill and of our emissions footprint, and so when we think about those correlations between energy consumption, the types of energy that we're consuming, as well as the amount of reduction, it'll be a pretty significant consumption reduction that we'll see," said Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh's chief resilience officer.

[PortTack]

1. Way to go Pittsburgh!

[ffr]

2. Our family grew up on the outskirts of town. We had one streetlap over an intersection

and that was it. That light bothered me, because it stood out from all of the natural light and darkness. Since moving from there, it seems that every township has made it policy to light every inch of roadway they can stick a light post on. What a waste!

Turn that s*it off!

[Think. Again.]

3. K&R

[LiberaBlueDem]

4. Excess power

Nuclear plants are run at high speed 24/7

When they first came on line 50 years ago the nuke operators discovered so much power was being wasted after peak demands and especially late night. So they convinced the governments to put up streetlights so the nukers could sell all that wasted power.

What nukers need to do is buy huge batteries to store all that wasted power.