There are no additional installation costs. These LED lights are designed to be drop in replacements for the older halogen and sulfur types.
It still cost money to send guys out on bucket trucks to replace lights.
Was this some sort of lease to own scheme? Municipalities tend to pay very little for cash less than a leasing company. Are we surrounded by idiots with no impulse control or long term thinking to think leasing is cheaper?
Without discussion of lease terms, length, and end of lease requirements, you really can't determine if there is anything to be saved. Also, installation costs might be a big factor purposely not discussed. It may be easy to lease the lights, but the costs of installation (and maybe even maintenance) drive the real cost up and potential benefit down.
We can lease LEDs for all our outdoor lighting for $4,000 per month and save $8,000 on electricity right away
You can't save $8000t "right away". That's just bullshit.
What they are doing is depending heavily on tax subsidy/credits... not actual cost. Then twisting the numbers.
The article really has nothing to do with nuclear power plants, despite the opening references. He is talking about the poor security at the Oak Ridge facility. If private security guards are so bad, maybe they should call in the experts from Homeland Security.
He is purposely conflating nuclear power plants with Oak Ridge, which is a trick regularly employed by Union of Concerned Scientists in their anti-nuclear cries. The simple fact they resort to those tactics tells you something about them.
I read that in the sense of, "Let's say that I'm in the position of being a general manager", as a hypothetical rather than something to be taken literally.
Then take his insight as hypothetical as well.
I am GM of a nuclear power plan
You are a liar, that is about all you are. "engineering" doesn't tell a GM to shut the plant down to fix a pump. Operators do that, and its all proceduralized so there is no GM decision to make.
You can't even describe what pumps you are talking about nor their function.
Actually, the danger to a person being killed by an asteroid is not changed. That won't happen until some technology is developed to deal with them. But, at least we would know the end is coming.
The danger of a given person getting killed has not changed, but the chance of a person getting killed may have increased slightly with the increase in human population.
The datacap thing is more worrying. It is supposed to work like "all streaming music is exempt", not "just our streaming music service is exempt", but that has to be enforced by regulators. It's hard to see how they would exempt all streaming music services anywhere in the world, from a technical point of view.
They may have to limit these exceptions to things that require very high bandwidth (HD IPTV) and/or very low latency (Videoconferencing). Then music streaming would not be considered an exception. I agree that how (and how much) they keep those exception lanes open to competitors is the tough question.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman
