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treehugger.com — Billboard in South Africa

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  • BestJaxx, on 11/06/2007, -104/+7In South Africa?
  • Alternate, on 11/06/2007, -15/+9rofl, I hate eskom
    • mydigga, on 11/06/2007, -1/+50Wow, first I find out they have electricity in Africa and now I find out there are Diggers as well. I'm going to need a minute for all of this register. Next thing you'll be telling the world isn't flat!
      • Trax91, on 11/06/2007, -3/+15Ain't flat
        • mydigga, on 11/06/2007, -0/+37Ha ha, nice try... I saw that guy throw the Coke bottle off the edge of the Earth.
    • badjoke, on 11/06/2007, -2/+1Roffle.
    • jordn, on 11/06/2007, -3/+1i don't understand why he is being dugg down, the guy is actually from South Africa.
      • cyberoidx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1because no one really cares?
      • danwallace, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Perhaps it's because he begins sentences with "rofl?"
  • linebacker52, on 11/06/2007, -21/+10Life is like South Africa... you never know what you're gonna get.
  • daxsymbiont, on 11/06/2007, -13/+37that was frontpage yesterday ffs.
    • themastersb, on 11/06/2007, -1/+11Yeah, but a lot of people here have the memory span of a goldfish
      • coviecarbine, on 11/07/2007, -9/+3Or, more likely, we don't all see every article on the front page because we may visit 1 to 3 times a day and don't always catch everything. Article dugg to frustrate ^^^^.
      • cyrix, on 11/07/2007, -4/+1Yeah I saw this just.... Er what were we talking about?
  • bonds, on 11/08/2007, -11/+196Repost from yesterday. Some treehugger you are, wasted electricity to repost this!
    • RuckusNutz, on 11/06/2007, -13/+4Yeah, what a bunch of ass clowns.
    • underburn, on 11/06/2007, -3/+2I didnt see this yesterday, so STFU.
      • bonds, on 11/06/2007, -0/+0Can I ask you something, underburn? Why do you hate Mother Earth?
  • brentinkc, on 11/06/2007, -14/+4buried...
  • alexhud, on 11/06/2007, -7/+15yeah this was in the top 10 yesterday. people bury all the Ron Paul stuff and not ***** that was up yesterday.
    • aussieNickuss, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2It's just like encore's on TV. If it's worthy of seeing again, it will be seen again.
  • JenadaeXX, on 11/08/2007, -7/+84I didnt see this yesterday so ill digg it
  • eternal464, on 11/06/2007, -4/+1099% of the time i use my computer it is not gaming related, yet my 650 watt power supply stays on and operating all day every day. someone should invent a variable power consumption computer.
    • TheTadpole, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1there was something about variable power consumption power bricks today on giz http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/marvell-power-suppl ...
    • DemonWasp, on 11/06/2007, -0/+21Yes, it stays running. I'm pretty sure it doesn't eat up 650 watts constantly though, since that'd cause some problem: what do you do with all that wasted energy? It has to turn into heat! When your computer isn't doing anything strenuous, it'll eat up a "resting" amount of power, and the power supply will consume somewhat more, losing some power to inefficiency (expressed as heat). When your computer does something requiring more power (such as gaming), it will consume more power, again increased by the inefficiency of your power supply.
      Your 650W power supply probably doesn't eat much more power than a 300W power supply connected to the same computer - it all depends on the efficiency of the power supply.
    • shanafme, on 11/06/2007, -3/+5Or, you could turn it off when not gaming. That might work.
      • volacide, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6Yeah but when you're not gaming you're torrenting new games, so how would that work?
    • EntangledPhysx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10650 watts is its peak operating power output. There are built in regulators to maintain constant voltage when parts of your computer consume higher amounts of current (amperage). So when your computer is using less power, it uses less amperage, and thus less wattage (constant Voltage on the rails, with variable amps, so wattage used will vary since wattage = volts x amps). For instance, when your PC is idling, it could using as little as 100 watts or something along those lines.
    • DeFex, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1they have its called when your not doing anything the power consumption goes down and when you are it uses more.

      notice how it gets hotter after a lot of gaming. thats because the CPU, GPU chipset and ram are all using more power. using more power makes more heat.
      then they have speedstep and other stuff which actually slows the CPU down even more when you are not doing anything .as well as power saving mode that turns off the hard drives.
    • gavintlgold, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1Folding@home? Doesn't save power but puts it to use?
  • jmpeagle, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5random related comment about electricity reliability in S. Africa.

    I talked to a guy from there once who noticed how chaotic it gets at a busy intersection in America is the power for the stoplights go out, whereas it is so common in S. Africa that they have all just learned to then treat the intersection as a stop sign where they alternate whereas in the U.S. it seems to be who can muscle there wy into the intersection first.
    • Haapi, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6I believe most states' traffic laws are to treat that situation as a 4-way (n-way) stop.
      Of course, most people are just idiots at 4-way stops, anyway.
      • cawpin, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Correct. I hate it when traffic lights go out around here, in a suburb of Phoenix. It seems like these people have no idea what a 4 way stop IS, let alone how to handle it.
    • theartfuldodgr, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1I hate 4 way stops because idiots here in NJ always just muscle their way through intersections. Just this morning I came to a 4 way stop on my way to class. I came to my stop waited for the cars with the right away to go. When it came to my turn I start to go and a car going the opposite direction just guns the turn right infront of me and so does the car behind him, so the third car attempts to but I reach halfway through the intersection and the car slams on his brakes because he realizes he can't make it and just lays on his horn while yelling something at me. I just nodded, smiled, and went along my merry way.
  • RobLiefeld, on 11/06/2007, -12/+3It's good to see Africans doing the right thing.
  • Fatcheeseguy, on 11/06/2007, -8/+2But what about all that electricity required to build the sign?
    • iticu, on 11/06/2007, -5/+2Companys still need to profit, and a key to profit is advertising.
      Don't be a smartass.
  • muckb777, on 11/06/2007, -1/+71wouldn't the message only work at night?
    • EntangledPhysx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10unless its all black with white behind only the text
    • leprix, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2or if you can read...the message is pretty simple, even in daylight.
  • brentinkc, on 11/06/2007, -13/+2I am kind of pissed about the ron paul censorship. Dickwipes.
    • toxicshok, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5and I'm kind of pissed people like you ruin the good name of Ron Paul.
  • chat4funnfun, on 11/06/2007, -8/+3Mirror!!
    http://fileegg.com/imageview.php?quickkey=D74A703D ...
  • Bonz2008, on 11/06/2007, -9/+3So this is what makes it to the front page of digg now? Was this site invaded my 13 year old school kids?
    • hierophantus, on 11/05/2007, -1/+4Yes, and they posted a whiny comment under your name to make you look petty.
      • DeathAndTaxes, on 11/05/2007, -1/+3...And they obviously misspelled a 2 letter word as difficult as 'by' just to throw us off the track.
    • CraigCarlyle, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Why the hell would 13 year-olds care about electricity usage?
  • OfficialJoe, on 11/06/2007, -1/+92I live in South Africa. We have a huge problem with electricity supply countrywide. It is so bad that we have routine "load shedding" (bunch of jerks..haw haw) which implies that large sections of the city is without power for up to 6 hours. At one stage I would know the routine so well, I would travel between different coffee shops just to get my work done as the power is being switched off.

    When all of this started about two years ago, there was a large demand for diesel generators, but at that very same point we had a critical fuel shortage as well. So we were kinda screwed both ways.

    Yet, when I drive around and I see Table Mountain in all its splendour, I know that I live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I'd rather endure the shortage of electricity than move elsewhere and give up this privilege.

    Living in SA is like being married to an eternally beautiful woman that has bad PMS - you cannot leave her because she makes your heart beat strong, but you sometimes want to slap her really hard because she is so full of *****.
    • Rikushix, on 11/06/2007, -1/+34What a quaint analogy.
    • Lugano, on 11/06/2007, -0/+13Dugg for the great analogy :)
    • socoolisme, on 11/06/2007, -16/+2must suck living in a terable country.
      • richardhenry, on 11/06/2007, -1/+12Must suck having such 'terable' spelling.
    • fires, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5It's not really as bad as you make it sound. We haven't had load shedding for quite a while now. Other fast growing countries and cities experience load shedding as well as they grow faster than their power suppliers can keep up.
    • fires, on 11/06/2007, -3/+1It's not really as bad as you make it sound. We haven't had load shedding for quite a while now. Other fast growing countries and cities experience load shedding as well as they grow faster than their power suppliers can keep up.
      • gavintlgold, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Digg has been submitting lots of comments twice lately... really a pain.
    • brjndr, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4Dugg for getting people to digg domestic violence without realizing it.
    • bonk2k, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1That's how I feel about America. We have some of the most diverse landscapes here than anywhere else. We have deserts, mountains, swamps, beaches, forests and everything in between all in one country. The only thing is that you have to put up with a madman in the White House and his legions of brainwashed followers. All in all I think its worth it.
  • griz, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12Dugg especially for being a "top down" lit billboard. Uplit billboards are a menace.
    • sammypai, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1i'm sorry, i'm not a billboard aficionado
  • AlexM, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7This was literally dugg yesterday...literally...I think it was actually on the Top 10.
    • brentinkc, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3Why do these comments always get dugg down? I don't want to see the same ***** day after day either. You people are ***** retarded
      • richardhenry, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Exactly what I was thinking. How the ***** is this back on here?
  • kilps, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10To put the pic in context - here in South Africa there is only one electricity provider (Eskom) - a few years ago the gov took away their licence to build new power plants in the hope that the private sector would build them (Eskom is state owned) - however no one came forward - now we are stuck running out of electricity (occasionally resulting in load shedding [planned outages] when something does go wrong - was a big thing in Cape Town when one of the reactors at the Nuclear Plant had to be shut down)

    So basically Eskom is wanting people to use less so people don't blame then as often for bad planning wrt the electricity grid (some blame is to be put on them)
  • stephbangm, on 11/06/2007, -6/+1Go Treehuggers!
  • kettlechips, on 11/06/2007, -1/+36The other light bulbs were stolen.
  • ToadX, on 11/06/2007, -7/+6That sign must look really stupid during the day when it's bright out.
  • sdubois92, on 11/06/2007, -11/+3this is just Liberal propaganda. Go ahead, use all the power you want!
  • Samizaza, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/myagoub/Remote2/World_Li ...
    At least we use electricity very wisely here in the U.S.
    • DarkSamus, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Sorry

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  • fredrihl, on 11/06/2007, -2/+3This ad deserves an award.
  • Scheissen, on 11/06/2007, -6/+2DUPE u ***** limey
  • LRG1, on 11/06/2007, -2/+4Creative, and imo, better then 99.9% of the billboards in North America
  • KangoTraveler, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3it is really creative, probably the most interesting billboard ad I have ever seen too bad it is only REALLY good at night, but then again that's part of the fun.
  • iStunT, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4Smart.
  • SNIPE07, on 11/06/2007, -4/+1***** environmentalists.
  • randomtask43, on 11/06/2007, -3/+3nice
    09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

  • Baumage, on 11/06/2007, -1/+0Haha. That's awesome! Really creative.
  • silverblayze, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I didn't see this yesterday either; I was on TreeHugger and saw it hadn't been dugg from that site. Obviously the pic is spreading across the internet/green websites.
  • sushibarfly, on 11/06/2007, -1/+0I love this. :)
  • shoreview, on 11/06/2007, -0/+0Very nice! =)
  • landia, on 11/08/2007, -0/+0Very African advert. Let's go Africa - save that power!
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  • gibsonsydsa, on 06/18/2008, -0/+0Yeah, it's funny and all but were seriously having power problems, so middle and lower class people will be biting the inflation spikes and hicked electricity costs in SA (50%)...truly sad that this country is shadowed by political powers that rationalize like little todlers over who gets to do what whilst nothing gets done and everything falls apart.
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