• Ace@feddit.uk
        36·
        5 days ago

        If they do say “but it’s solar”, then that’s greenwashing. All power consumption has an opportunity cost: that solar could have gone into the grid and offset some coal power, but instead it’s wasted which means more (or at least… “not less”) coal usage somewhere else. wasting power isn’t fine just because it was renewable. By that logic we could plug all the solar panels in the world into electric space heaters and waste all the power and that would just be fine since “it’s solar”.

        • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          5 days ago

          I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before this foggy photo, but that thing sure is cyberpunk dystopian, huh?

      • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        4 days ago

        Also me and my family were gonna go to the sphere and turns out part of it is essentially a climate change lecture, and my family had the collective reaction of “ah yes, let’s discuss climate change in the orb that has enough power to remain easily visible in the direct desert sun”

        So yeah that was interesting to hear

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Reminds me of those AI centers that drain the grid and suck up all the municipal water, only to run a fortune in PR about being Green.

        As though using a Three Mile Island’s worth of electricity is doing the rest of the world a favor.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
    42·
    5 days ago

    Scientists: No! It’s impossible to shine a light on the moon bright enough to advertise.

    ….What if we made our own moon and advertise on that?

  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
    34·
    5 days ago

    We need to invent a device that cancels out the light that comes through a glass window. Like noise canceling headphones but for light

  • Alienmonkey@lemm.ee
    10·
    4 days ago

    If you can see the sphere, you paid extra for the room and you knew what you were getting into.

    • Bgugi@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      Not really. I stayed at the Venetian last year, and my my room didn’t include the sphere view in either the features or as an upcharge. (The sphere is “part of” the Venetian, so they’d be the most likely to advertise rooms with a view.) Their room is quite a bit further than mine was. They may have paid for the strip view, but without specific advertising they probably would not be able to tell ahead of time if they’d have LOS on the sphere.