Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of the landscape function

Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by dylan604 on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:24PM (#43166161)

> I remember when folks were resisting LED lights at the start.

At the start, LEDs were horrible. There were early versions that you could point your cell phone camera in video mode at the lights and see them blinking. We did that just to prove that some of us could see these lights strobing. Now they have insane blink rates that you'll never see them except maybe for the highest of high frame rate cameras that mere mortals will never see.

I would be curious to which was worse between the early LEDs or CFL. I hated both.

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Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by taeric on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:36PM (#43166250)

To be sure! Early low flo toilets were also pretty bad. Modern ones are a whole new thing, though.

It's a lot like battery technology. It progressed a ton with people not realizing it. If you said I could get a battery powered lawn mower, I'd have assumed you meant as a toy not even a decade ago.

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Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by dylan604 on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:53PM (#43166369)

I feel the same way about all of the generative AI stuff that keeps getting posted here. Some of it is just laughable at how bad it is that you have to seriously ask why would they show it off to people. Maybe in the next decade, we'll find the road out of uncanny valley.

There's a risk of people thinking the early stuff is so bad that it must be a joke, but the people working have to promote they are working hoping to name recognition/funding. Sometimes it pays off to be first with low quality that matures, other times it's a death knell

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