Earth Hour 2024

[@240Volts]

Nice variety of lights. As usual much more of a wattage total.

[@jrmcferren]

No non-electric lighting, get some Coleman lanterns running, those things use a lot of energy in the form of fuel. Efficacy of those is about 1 lumen per watt.

[@randacnam7321]

Problem was bad weather including loads of rain and wind. Plus, they use a lot of candles at 'real' Earth Hour events despite them being 2 to 3 orders of magnitude less efficient than electric lights.

[@Truckguy735]

What do you hate about led

[@randacnam7321]

Them being shoved into all applications and being treated as a universal illuminant when they are very much not. There are also a number of problems with poorly researched failure modes that aren't getting the attention they should due to everything being all LED rah rah rah all the time.

[@Truckguy735]

@@randacnam7321 Some of the ways LED light bulbs fail are interesting like overheating.

[@randacnam7321]

@@Truckguy735 A lot more than just overheating, as there are all kinds of die layer structure failures. And much of that overheating is deliberate; it was discovered in the mid 2010s that certain combinations of high drive current/die current density and high temperature actually increase die efficiency _at the expense of die service life._