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Good question. Wikipedia entry claims 150,000 floodlights but I question the origin of this number. It showed up out of the blue, in a single edit, and none of
by pp19dd 11y ago
Good question.
Wikipedia entry claims 150,000 floodlights but I question the origin of this number. It showed up out of the blue, in a single edit, and none of the cited sources have the said number in them. Two pieces of information that the edit added are that there are (A) 0.15 million lights, and (B) 50,000 poles they're on: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indo-Pakistani_border&diff=next&oldid=630098351 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indo-Pakistani_bo...
Trying to trace A or B just shows articles that obviously quoted wikipedia, and they use either version of 0.15 or 150,000 depending on when they were written. At this point, the wiki entry number is almost imaginary, being circularly reinforced by web articles referencing it.
- dest 11y agothanks for the research. this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033886/India-Pakistan-border-visible-space.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033886/India-Pakist... may give further insight. from the picture, one can estimate that lights are separated by approx 20 meters, and the length of the lighted border is about 2000 km. This gives about 100 000 floodlights, which is consistent with the Wikipedia figure. Those lights seem rather powerful. I would not be astonished if they were 1kW each (might be much smaller if made of LED, but the yellow-ish color suggests it's not). This gives 100 MW of lighting power. Crap, that's a lot.