{"id":457,"date":"2010-12-28T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/12\/digital-led-billboards.html"},"modified":"2015-10-19T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:02:24","slug":"digital-led-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/12\/digital-led-billboards.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital Billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The growing number of digital billboards on U.S. roads and highways <a href=\"http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/20\/do-digital-billboards-waste-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">consume large amounts of energy<\/a> and are creating a wide variety of electronic waste, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scenic.org\/storage\/documents\/Digital_Signage_Final_Dec_14_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a new  report<\/a> (pdf). The new study says the typical digital billboard consumes about  30 times as much energy as the average American household.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330147e116c17b970b-pi\"><img style=\"width: 520px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Energy use led billboards\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330147e116c17b970b-550wi\" alt=\"Energy use led billboards\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The digital  billboards use more efficient LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting than  traditional signs, but deploy so many of the LED bulbs on each billboard  that energy use is high; traditional billboards use just one or two  large bulbs to illuminate signs. In addition, digital billboards are illuminated day and night,  and require cooling systems that use more energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/digital_billboards_consume_large_amounts_of_energy_analysis_shows\/2731\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Yale Environment 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2008\/10\/led-light-cfl-b.html\" target=\"_self\">Viva Las Vegas &#8211; LEDs and the energy efficiency paradox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The growing number of digital billboards on U.S. roads and highways consume large amounts of energy and are creating a wide variety of electronic waste, according to a new report (pdf). The new study says the typical digital billboard consumes about 30 times as much energy as the average American household.&#8221; &#8220;The digital billboards use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,84,217,210,96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}