We see adverts everywhere telling us to do our bit for conserving energy (fair enough)- turn a light off, don't leave your TV on standby etc etc but is it really fair to put the almost entire onus on the everyday public when you can drive past any out of town shopping centre and see almost every light on in the premises? Surely more should be done to make these companies start conserving energy too? Leave the lights on at the front if it is a security issue but the ones at the backs of the stores? People can't see that far back when the shops are shut can they?
2007-01-23 11:58:14 · 8 answers · asked by The Dragon 2 in Environment
I did state that I can understand them leaving the front lights on for security issues but am more thinking about the ones at the back and in the middle of the store not the ones at the front. If they had to have lights in case people broke in could they not be on motion sensors?
2007-01-23 12:15:06 · update #1
People will always site safety and reduction of criminal activity as the main reason for leaving lights on, even though it is only in the past 50 years that we didn't have clocks which turned off gas lamps!
Do motorways need to be floodlit all night?
I personally hate driving on overlit motorways when I have perfectly good floodlights on the front of my vehicle.
As for safety and security, it is one thing lighting at street-level, but do they have to have all the lights on from floors 1 - 30 in city office blocks all night?
Ever considered the madness of traffic lights at 3am, when other countries just have them switching to constant amber?
There's nothing worse, or more wasteful of fuel, than stop-start-stop-start when the only things that cross your path have four legs and a bushy tail.
The world has gone quite mad!
2007-01-24 02:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by musonic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its disgusting. I have an environmental job in an office yet quite a few lights get left on and i dont think for sequrity reasons. I think its disgraceful We try and make people turn them off. Its the same with computers tho, most people turn them off but leave monitors on standby and stuff.
Everything regarding electricity usage seems to be driven by money. If you want to save money you will turn lights off.....and it is good for the environment. Big companies have more money so less ofa drive to reduce energy bills
2007-01-23 20:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by Carrot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all bollocks. They don't need all those lights on for security. In any case the more lit up an area is the more crime. It's obvious that the criminals can see better in the light. But someone would soon notice if a torch was flashing in the dark. If we all stopped using electricity tomorrow it would not make the slightest difference to the environment.
2007-01-23 13:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by Tracker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government is trying to make us feel like we can still do something about global warming. It's a smoke screen while they make big money with big companies.
2007-01-24 08:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Stef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big companies dont have to worry about saving energy, but they use the lighted area to keep down theft etc. It helps them to keep their insurance prices down.
2007-01-23 12:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
big companies can get away with anything cos they can put pressure on governments
2007-01-23 12:03:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lights are on for safety reasons. Haven't you noticed that there is no crime in our cites at night. The more lighting the less crime. Haven't you listened to our government and police ?
2007-01-23 12:09:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Interesting question and very well put.
2007-01-23 12:21:44 · answer #8 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋