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I mean, lighting was kind of a killer app
by jonplackett 4y ago
I mean, lighting was kind of a killer app
- lbebber 4y agoWe still refer to the electricity bill as the “light bill” in Brazil.
- Claude_Shannon 4y agoSame in Poland
- martinjacobd 4y agoI'm an American, and this is what my mother calls it, though I call it the electric bill.
- gpm 4y agoIf I think of everything I use electricity for these days, lighting* is pretty far down the list of usefulness. The sun can fill 80% of my lighting needs, giving up on the 20% really doesn't seem like it would be that painful. I actually thought the list of items in the ad in the article was far more convincing than lighting as a use case. Today my list of more important use cases would include things like long distance communication, refrigeration, transportation*, cooking/manufacturing, computing, data storage, small cameras, medical uses*... except in so far as light is how I use electricity to make light for information transfer purposes. Something like e-ink would be an adequate substitute though. * ICE engines do fill a lot of this niche, but not all of it. Subways, elevators, and the like are made much better via electricity. ** Imaging devices especially come to mind
- totoglazer 4y agoI think you massively underestimate how annoying not being able to see after dark is.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoWhere do you live? For half the year, we have less than 12 hours of sunlight. Prior to electricity, humanity has spent a lot of time and effort to have light past sundown.
- julienfr112 4y agoand electric motors.
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