Re:The Curse of the Modern Office
by user5994461 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:22PM
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To give some numbers. The building of JP Morgan in London was bought for £500M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_Bank_Street
Hope that someone here knows the price of lightning so we can get some comparison going on :D
Price of 24 hour lighting is about £1 - £2 per watt year (standard overhead fluorescents). For typical office building lighting intensity, that's around £15 - £50 per m^3. Assuming the high end of that scale, for the building you mentioned, the yearly lighting bill would be £5 million.
People on $200,000 left a 5 cent light on pp? Meh.
You could work on using that $200,000 more efficiently if you want to save money.
I think you are falling for the stupid marketing. Wow we pulled 100 cars worth off the road by turning lights off at night! (as a one million car per year organization)