Currently, an agreement is under review to ensure that 70% of the Sphere’s power needs will come from solar sources, with the other 30% from non-renewable energy that will be offset by renewable energy credits.
Ahh yes, energy credits. Aka bullshit.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The power of 21000 homes for advertising.
What’s most impressive is that it is even legal.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Or profitable
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is it? Last I‘ve heard it was bleeding money.
treadful@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I love this kind of shit. Building things for the sake of it is worth it. Not only as just expression, which may be hubris but it’s still expression. Also entertainment, inspiration, pushing the art of engineering, and just giving people something to do, and all the good that comes with that like personal and trade growth.
A purely utilitarian life is a life only spent on survival. Not a life I want to live.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Well, that hubris won’t afford you a livable world for much longer.
We could have respected the planet that birthed us, and taken only what we needed. Instead we extracted every natural resource we could find, and left behind countless shattered ecosystems. Even as the walls close in, we accelerate our pettiness and perform acts of wastefulness that alone do measurable ecological damage, and we celebrate it because it is “cool”.
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rasensprenger@feddit.org 4 months ago
I understand that perspective, but does it really have to be advertising?
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This isn’t pushing any boundaries, though. This is off the shelf technology. Anybody can do something big by throwing a shit ton of money at it. It would be pushing boundaries of tech or art if it was for instance super power efficient, or mind bending in any way. This is a fucking sphere, it’s the simplest shape and a rip off of the pyramids but less original and not even comparable in terms of durability.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure but we’re burning tons of coal to have this thing advertise minion movies, not anything artistic or worthwhile.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Advertising? This thing is essentially a theater. Yeah, it can run advertisement but anything with a screen can do that. It’s like saying a movie theatre is for advertising.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s a 400 foot tall screen that’s constantly on and in view, even at night, which plays ads like 90% of the time. Calling it “essentially a theatre” is a huge understatement.