I disagree.
One person leaving a light on, no big deal. Millions of people leaving a light on, big deal. One person creating a 480,000 lumen light bar, no big deal. 100, 1000 people doing it, still no big deal. Millions upon millions of people doing stupid things that waste electricity, big deal. Normalizing stupid things that waste electricity, big deal.
Many lawnmower manufacturers overinflate the horsepower. There have been a few settlements related to class action lawsuits. For example:
The convention covers permanent blindness. It doesn’t cover temporary effects, aka “dazzling”. This is how cops get away with using flash-bangs.
That’s stretching the meaning of “legitmate” a bit I think.
This is absolutely mandatory for heavy-duty off-road use – like the Walmart parking lot which is as far off-road as most of these folks ever get.
jesus christ, why can’t someone do neat shit without a pile of negative nancy’s saying how a big light running for a few hours a month is going to melt the ice caps or how he requires a ‘real’ need to make this for some ‘redeeming’ quality?
what happened to neat shit for the sake of neat shit? on boing boing of all fucking places.
Because people have different ideas of what’s neat and what’s problematic. That’s not a hard concept to grok.
Needlessly disrupting the circadian rhythms of wildlife is not “neat shit”.
They might be these 100 W, 120-140 lm/W emitters with parabolic reflector which would put the lights at ~$2k for 18:
as an aside, leds are not monochromatic
There’s still “wonderful things” here, and sometimes the forums can be fun, but more and more it’s just joyless scolds. If they can irritate someone enough to speak up, then they can finally play their trump card “OOoo, are you disappointed in BoingBoing?”. shrug
The “too bright” headlights on cars is often a headlight bulb issue, not a lumen issue.
On low beams, a headlight should have a cutoff line, about an inch or two lower that the headlight at 20’.
This was sometimes accomplished by the incandescent bulb having two filaments, at different locations. On “low” beams, the reflector was shaped to aim the light beam slightly down. There are plenty of cheap LED replacements with LED emitters all over the bulb, which destroys the beam design, and reflects light everywhere. There’s also cheap LED bulbs where the emitters are located where the filament would be, and these work pretty well.
Very cool, but kind of underwhelming. With all the impressive sounding jet noise I was expecting some shots of the guy screaming across the pasture, his face flapping around like a rubber mask.
I think you kinda answered your own question there, but it’s the same reason bored, retired NASA engineers design air canons that can shoot a pumpkin a mile down the road, and rednecks with a serious engineering bent put several aircraft engines into a tractor for no other reason than to pull a weighted sled.
He needs to also be “rolling coal” to achieve gold-star asshole status:
Admittedly, my mind went here.
The Geneva Conventions don’t generally regulate the weapons and tactics of police, as opposed to soldiers.
This wouldn’t be at all unusual on a film set. Lighting up smallish rooms to look like or mix with daylight takes more power than this. Generators are literally orders of magnitude bigger than the power supply for this thing.
This is smaller than the lights typically used to simulate moonlight in outdoor wide shots.
The only really notable thing is how uncontrolled the light is, just spraying around like a flashlight headband from the bb store.
Agreed about police use. I couldnt easily find a public domain example of a military dazzling weapon.
Yes but those petrol jobbies would be way noisy. Better you power your house with a handful of electric lawnmowers.
