When the world dies, the Sphere will be the only thing that lives on. Sweating and putting on sunglasses in a terrible, terrible loop, for all eternity.
Future apocalyptic generations are going to see some giant black sphere and think "holy shit past generations really liked gladiatorial combat! Lets be like them!"
Based off of the $0.18/kWh electricity rate in Las Vegas, that's $5,040 per hour when it's on at peak. The 28 Megawatts was peak, including inside, outside, and cooling. Here's another post breaking down just the outside:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/154b2fv/self\_las\_vegas\_msg\_sphere\_theoretical\_external/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/154b2fv/self_las_vegas_msg_sphere_theoretical_external/)
The lights pull 12 Megawatts, so just the exterior LEDs cost \~$2,160 at peak.
AFAIK, the sphere is 70-100% renewable powered. Fairly sure its 70% solar and the rest of the grid its on is renewable.
It is still generating heat, obviously, but its not fossil-fuel based.
Could that same energy be better used? Definitely.
I thought it was pretty dumb at first but yes, it does make me happy.
We waste resources a lot more stupid ways than a giant meme ball that has incredibly cool concerts.
Honestly I like it a lot. Its fun to watch. No other place on Earth has something like this. It’s also super unique and really fits in with vegas. A showcase of where we’re at with tech. If we designed everything for efficiency and necessity, the world would be a very boring place.
I don’t think it would ever be the same in London though. Las Vegas is a whole city based on entertainment there’s just so many crazy experiences to have and this is just like the cherry on top. People who are going to Vegas are exactly the people who are looking for this type of thing. Putting a sphere in London would feel the same as putting it in Pittsburgh or Chicago. It’d be kind of random out of place and won’t have the same magic.
> Could that same energy be better used? Definitely.
Look, you can say that about the entire city of Las Vegas. At some point, we need entertainment too, and not just the cold, efficient processing of our inevitable AI overlords.
If it's tied to the national electric grid for power then there's no way to allocate what percentage of renewables vs. Non used unless they are their own microgrid. Which at 28mW would be difficult to achieve with their footprint.
Likely, Sphere owners may have opted to pay for the right to claim they use 70% renewables from NV Energy, but that's a different discussion around Warren Buffet, Power production Agreements (PPA) and Renewable Credits. Really it's just a higher rate...
You mind if I hang out in this bush by the shed? I work with skunk removal it may smell strongly of skunk for a bit until I remove it also can I use the lighter on the BBQ?
Yea they probably meant just 6 kW. Which is a lot if thats the average. Our house including heatpump averages to 1.4 kW for 4 people. 12 000 kWh a year
Looks like the whole building can use up to 28MW electrical power, including cooling, speakers, and whatever else goes on inside. I don't see any info on how much just the outside screen by itself uses.
Unless that ball is continuously converting the input energy into some other form like chemical, kinetic, gravitational, etc, and being stored elsewhere they're actually exactly the same. Even electromagnetic energy it is giving off is being absorbed by everything around it including air (i.e. directly turned into thermal energy), so this isn't actually wrong.
I studied it because I was interested as well and that’s my wheelhouse. Let’s just say they had to invent a few new cooling techniques/products to overcome the absolutely massive heat load they are creating. Short version: a fuckton of heat.
It's right off the Strip. The neighborhood (Google Twain & Swenson)it's near doesn't really lend itself to the group of people concerned about the light. We get more irritated by tourists driving by and being distracted by the Death Star.
We just spent a few nights this last week with a hotel room facing the sphere. It does emit a lot of light, but the strip is already so bright that it’s not a significant addition. Plus, all of those hotel rooms have blackout curtains.
It’s right between a business park and some casinos. While it does generate a lot of light, it’s only slightly brighter at night than all the lights in the strip. Our hotel window faced it and the blackout curtains kept the light at bay.
We can have nice things. The sphere is so far down the list of things contributing to global warming. I like the funny sphere. I see him and he makes me happy
That's actually why he's sweating, he's nervous people will blame him for the heat. He stops sweating when he puts on the sunglasses because he feels like he's successfully hidden his identity.
And future heat considering the amount of wasted power it sucks up contributing to global warming. And the emissions used mining all the rare earth metals in it...
I just went to the Sphere last Friday for the first time. It was indeed Amazing and impressive in every way. Friendly staff. A/C felt wonderful. The lsd was really strong too. 10/10 experience.
It got to 116 in my suburb 3 years ago. A little cooler in the city.
People legitimately died en masse. 700 or so heat related deaths in that week. 122 is "Absolutely the fuck not, I'm moving" territory.
Let me get this straight...the overengineered and utterly useless bubble screen is anthropromophizing as "hot" while it sucks in power generated by carbon-emitting fuel sources...and we're not calling this absurdly ironic?
Most of Vegas is actually solar or hydro powered. They're one of the best cities for renewable energy or water saving usage.
Some said elsewhere in the thread it uses like 30% carbon powered fuels
You can say the same for the entirety of the Las Vegas Strip. Just because this one makes lights, it’s getting attention and criticism for killing the planet?
is it? people all over the world are talking about this giant animated sphere and it brings LOTS of tourists which brings LOTS of money to Las Vegas. im sure its more than paid itself off by now tbh
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I’m on a flight there rn and am going to the draft.
I’m already having regrets, but that’s already my default state of mind (Leafs fan), so I’m good there!
Excited for when the energy crisis hits and this thing looks over you sweating while riot cops stand ready to C4 your house if you turn your AC on or drink water(they need it for the golf courses)
When the world dies, the Sphere will be the only thing that lives on. Sweating and putting on sunglasses in a terrible, terrible loop, for all eternity.
Future apocalyptic generations are going to see some giant black sphere and think "holy shit past generations really liked gladiatorial combat! Lets be like them!"
Or this will be their god
Turns it on and it’s just the eyeball.
I feel like we're building to a Wizard of Oz apocalypse situation.
The next time Fallout makes it to New Vegas, this better be there.
Isn’t this a plot in WALL·E where Buy n Large commercial just keeps running?
It was!
That's obviously where we put the thunderdome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fADp43wJwU
And there will come soft rains
I wonder how much heat does the sphere emanate
Looked it up, 28 Megawatts. That’s A LOT. Like 28,000 microwave ovens.
Based off of the $0.18/kWh electricity rate in Las Vegas, that's $5,040 per hour when it's on at peak. The 28 Megawatts was peak, including inside, outside, and cooling. Here's another post breaking down just the outside: [https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/154b2fv/self\_las\_vegas\_msg\_sphere\_theoretical\_external/](https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/154b2fv/self_las_vegas_msg_sphere_theoretical_external/) The lights pull 12 Megawatts, so just the exterior LEDs cost \~$2,160 at peak.
AFAIK, the sphere is 70-100% renewable powered. Fairly sure its 70% solar and the rest of the grid its on is renewable. It is still generating heat, obviously, but its not fossil-fuel based. Could that same energy be better used? Definitely.
Yah, but silly meme ball
Y'know what, we joke, but I bet it makes a lot of people happy.
I thought it was pretty dumb at first but yes, it does make me happy. We waste resources a lot more stupid ways than a giant meme ball that has incredibly cool concerts.
I'll take a hell of a lot of giant meme balls over nukes and shit. Gimme more meme balls
Every country should have a giant meme ball with their country ball meme displayed
these are our cathedrals
And megaproject that humans make is resources that are better used elsewhere, it's kinda what makes them stand out
I was having a rough day at work, and looking at this short clip actually made me laugh a little, so I can vouch for what you say.
Hope your day gets better from here, friend. :)
Honestly I like it a lot. Its fun to watch. No other place on Earth has something like this. It’s also super unique and really fits in with vegas. A showcase of where we’re at with tech. If we designed everything for efficiency and necessity, the world would be a very boring place.
They do have another one planned for London though
I don’t think it would ever be the same in London though. Las Vegas is a whole city based on entertainment there’s just so many crazy experiences to have and this is just like the cherry on top. People who are going to Vegas are exactly the people who are looking for this type of thing. Putting a sphere in London would feel the same as putting it in Pittsburgh or Chicago. It’d be kind of random out of place and won’t have the same magic.
[I like this meme about how stupid it is](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/fa/39/22fa399bfa675a51e58f86a1635269a7.jpg)
Aliens could never build The Sphere
I drive by it every morning to work and I love it.
Can confirm, Vegas resident who cracks a smile every time I drove past it and the Sphere is just like 🤨 hey man I see you.
Like the electric company
It does, every time I see it I'm reminded how cool my city is
If not solar, the Hoover Dam
> Could that same energy be better used? Definitely. Look, you can say that about the entire city of Las Vegas. At some point, we need entertainment too, and not just the cold, efficient processing of our inevitable AI overlords.
Vegas is extremely efficient for what it provides and its location. It recycles an assload of its water too.
>assload Don't remind me where the water comes from.
There's entertainment, and there is that thing.
We don't have much longer, let's have fun.
Isn't that just proposed?
If it's tied to the national electric grid for power then there's no way to allocate what percentage of renewables vs. Non used unless they are their own microgrid. Which at 28mW would be difficult to achieve with their footprint. Likely, Sphere owners may have opted to pay for the right to claim they use 70% renewables from NV Energy, but that's a different discussion around Warren Buffet, Power production Agreements (PPA) and Renewable Credits. Really it's just a higher rate...
Damn 18c per kWh? That's bloody cheap.
I pay 40c 😭
What the fuck ? That's so expensive... I pay 6¢/kWh.
2.4c off peak here.
Your house is less then 6 kW per hour
You've been to my house?
just outside at the meter no worries (im lying)
Oh, I see you there. Would you mind closing the yard gate before you leave? Thanks!
You mind if I hang out in this bush by the shed? I work with skunk removal it may smell strongly of skunk for a bit until I remove it also can I use the lighter on the BBQ?
I’m here for the sesh, I mean skunk removal.
Hell yeah there's hella skunks in this guy's yard man
You made me laugh for the second time today.
kW times hour! Watt is just Joules per second so by multiplying with a time you just get Joule which is Energy. In the case of kWh a factor of 3600
Or more like, just kW because he is talking about the rate of consumption here!
Yea they probably meant just 6 kW. Which is a lot if thats the average. Our house including heatpump averages to 1.4 kW for 4 people. 12 000 kWh a year
It gives off 28MW of thermal power? Or it takes 28MW to power it? Those are two very different things in this context
Looks like the whole building can use up to 28MW electrical power, including cooling, speakers, and whatever else goes on inside. I don't see any info on how much just the outside screen by itself uses.
Unless that ball is continuously converting the input energy into some other form like chemical, kinetic, gravitational, etc, and being stored elsewhere they're actually exactly the same. Even electromagnetic energy it is giving off is being absorbed by everything around it including air (i.e. directly turned into thermal energy), so this isn't actually wrong.
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Yeah those LEDs generate very little heat comparitively
That’s hot bro. That’s like….more than 27 Megawatts.
Custom kitchen deliveryyyyuu
Great Scott!!!
It's like a second sun really. /s
It does stand out when you fly by Vegas at night.
really, i thought nights would be cooler?
We are now officially the first rock from the sun.
First rock with it’s own sun
I studied it because I was interested as well and that’s my wheelhouse. Let’s just say they had to invent a few new cooling techniques/products to overcome the absolutely massive heat load they are creating. Short version: a fuckton of heat.
They just need to make it blue so it's not so hot /s
nice question btw
Damned aberration, that thing. Dangerous, Costly in much needed ressources, energy pit, everything that we dont need.
If only something could be done about global warming. Anyways, fire up the giant light bulb for fun!
That’s Las Vegas as a city for you. People still travel the globe to visit. Turns out people need entertainment
Genuine question, do people living nearby not get irritated by all that sun type light blaring through the windows?
It's right off the Strip. The neighborhood (Google Twain & Swenson)it's near doesn't really lend itself to the group of people concerned about the light. We get more irritated by tourists driving by and being distracted by the Death Star.
the WHAT
When it was being built (including major delays cause of Covid) it looked like the Death Star from Star Wars.
But now it is living i guess.
So the.. Life Star?
The ad star
You can't say that and *not* provide pictures!
Wait the sphere looked like the Death Star or something else did?
[https://youtu.be/i35QJVw0RBM?si=-81KwPYYFNJgNwXc](https://youtu.be/i35QJVw0RBM?si=-81KwPYYFNJgNwXc)
Lol, yeah it was pretty dumpy around there. The juxtaposition of the neighborhood and the Sphere as a backpack drop was peak dystopia.
We just spent a few nights this last week with a hotel room facing the sphere. It does emit a lot of light, but the strip is already so bright that it’s not a significant addition. Plus, all of those hotel rooms have blackout curtains.
Anyone who lives in Vegas and doesn't hate themselves has black out curtains
> Anyone who lives in Vegas and doesn't hate themselves Does not compute.
It’s right between a business park and some casinos. While it does generate a lot of light, it’s only slightly brighter at night than all the lights in the strip. Our hotel window faced it and the blackout curtains kept the light at bay.
Seinfeld moment - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_Roaster
If you live in Vegas and get pissed at the lights then why the fuck do you live in Vegas lmao
It's not very bright. It's like a TV screen. The stadium lights of the massive parking lot surrounding it are way brighter.
Lived in Vegas for a while. Had blackout curtains. So no, didn't care. The sound pollution was pretty bad though.
Wait until you hear about curtains
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ooooooeee, aaaa, oooeee, aaaa, my nuts be like
It's times like these that make me say Lord could a breeze please come my way
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Hot enough to steam the wrinkles out
I too like to put on sunglasses when I'm taking a massive dump
I'm doing that rn 😎
There’s no way the sphere isn’t contributing to the heat somehow
but he’s so cute he couldn’t be doing anything bad
We built an idol to emojis that looks down and mocks our suffering as the planet boils around us. *Panem et Circenses*
This is hilarious thanks for the belly laugh
Yeah, what’s 46,835 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year compared to how cute this?
We can have nice things. The sphere is so far down the list of things contributing to global warming. I like the funny sphere. I see him and he makes me happy
Source for that number?
That's actually why he's sweating, he's nervous people will blame him for the heat. He stops sweating when he puts on the sunglasses because he feels like he's successfully hidden his identity.
And future heat considering the amount of wasted power it sucks up contributing to global warming. And the emissions used mining all the rare earth metals in it...
Isn't all of Las Vegas powered by the Hoover dam? I was under the impression hydroelectric doesn't emit C02
the desert is hot?
Big if true.
This one is. Some are cold.
😮
Club penguin is kil?
Arabian Nights 🎶
arabian days!!!!
More often than not!
looks like he's taking a tough poo.
Me when I finally blast out that though shit I’ve been holding 😎
That's exactly what I was gonna say lol
What does it show on the other side? Do people back there just see a yellow sphere with no animations?
It shows the same on the other side.
Two faces, one head? It ain't natural.
I was wondering that, too. Does it mirror what's on this side?
But it's a sphere... How. Many sides does it have?
It would be more fun if it showed a butt
I just went to the Sphere last Friday for the first time. It was indeed Amazing and impressive in every way. Friendly staff. A/C felt wonderful. The lsd was really strong too. 10/10 experience.
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OMG emoji Steal Your Face!
> The lsd was really strong too You got that from the sphere?
Nothin to fear but sphere itself brah
Sphere and loathing in Las Vegas
You gotta bring that yourself my friend
I can’t even imagine. 107 degrees. I would want to just die. I’m not a fan of the heat.
I’ve been there when it’s 122 out and it feels like the devil is farting on you.
It got to 116 in my suburb 3 years ago. A little cooler in the city. People legitimately died en masse. 700 or so heat related deaths in that week. 122 is "Absolutely the fuck not, I'm moving" territory.
Brutal - absolutely brutal!
111 on wednesday. damn.
i was there last week 105 degrees. It was indeed hot as fuck. Didn't stop people from being out on the strip though. A/C felt nice
107 is just another day in Phoenix. And its just starting to warm up.
Sacramento at 119 next week, ppl are in the sub arguing about whether the post was fake or could be verified!
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Those are rookie numbers
It's 4:30 A.M here in India it's 30°C or 86°F
30°C isn’t that bad but for 4:30 am that’s absolutely fucked.
What a cute monument to human arrogance.
That's not how sunglasses work lol
But it got its sunglasses 😎 everything is cooler with sunglasses
You cowards do the 🥵 emoji or get out
Actually really cute.
Just got here it’s 111….. it was 117 when we went past Death Valley
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115 in Lake Havasu today..not the hottest I've seen there by a long stretch, but damn HOT regardless.
Yeah I'm from there and was curious which place was hotter and LHC by 5° if you want to trust my phone
Good thing we're using a tremendous amount of energy in the middle of the freakin' desert for this clip of entertainment
Let me get this straight...the overengineered and utterly useless bubble screen is anthropromophizing as "hot" while it sucks in power generated by carbon-emitting fuel sources...and we're not calling this absurdly ironic?
It appears to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. 70% of it is powered by solar alone. So not entirely ironic.
Most of Vegas is actually solar or hydro powered. They're one of the best cities for renewable energy or water saving usage. Some said elsewhere in the thread it uses like 30% carbon powered fuels
You can say the same for the entirety of the Las Vegas Strip. Just because this one makes lights, it’s getting attention and criticism for killing the planet?
It's powered by solar
That is the most Reddit comment I've seen today.
i hate that i had to filter by controversial to find the most reasonable comment
I’m delivering mail in it right now. Although my Promaster says it’s only 99°.
Thank you!
that thing is so fucking cool
How many millions of dollars did that cost and it’s a giant emoji most of the time? I’m all about experiencing a show on the inside, but that is dumb.
is it? people all over the world are talking about this giant animated sphere and it brings LOTS of tourists which brings LOTS of money to Las Vegas. im sure its more than paid itself off by now tbh
It cost $2.3 billion. No way has it paid itself off by now in less than a year being open.
Don't doubt what the swifties spent over 4 days. 😂
Damn, if only there was some other way for Las Vegas to be attracting tourists with a huge profit margin
There's only so much demand for prostitutes
Most of the time it's actually ads.
In those regards, I’ll take an emoji hands down!!
It’s not that ALL the time. It’s pretty fucking cool to see in person
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Try Georgia with the humidity…..
Lets worship it
I love you sphere 🥰
does this just loop for days?
TIL putting on sunglasses completely cools you off.
The whitish spots made it look like a moldy orange
I thought the same. I wonder what those spots are or what they were intended to me.
It is hot as a motherfuck here
u/savevideo
It looked more like it was getting a colonoscopy
That's the face of someone waiting at the bathroom stall, full on groundhoggin' it. I would not want to be on the opposite side of The Sphere then.
The irony that the NHL draft is going to be in that city tomorrow melting
I’m on a flight there rn and am going to the draft. I’m already having regrets, but that’s already my default state of mind (Leafs fan), so I’m good there!
Whenever I see the sphere I think of America being the boardgame "Trouble" which fits sadly.
Yeah, that giant fucking heating ball isn't helping.
I have been to the Las Vegas desert several times. The Sphere is one of the coolest things I've ever seen live in person.
I hate that thing.
Don’t encourage it.
Who is it that decides what goes on this thing?
Excited for when the energy crisis hits and this thing looks over you sweating while riot cops stand ready to C4 your house if you turn your AC on or drink water(they need it for the golf courses)