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Tim O'Reilly wonders at the profligacy of US electricity consumption
A lovely little post from publisher and general Web guru Tim O'Reilly over at the O'Reilly Radar blog. He is visiting Sicily and wonders at how different it is from the States.
Excerpt:
In America, light beams from every window, even from empty office buildings. Here, most of the buildings are dark, or you see a faint light coming to the street from an interior room. Profligate use of lighting to say "I'm here, I'm here" seems the exception.
Read the whole post here.
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