He's not wrong.

[cholesterol@lemmy.world]

Strictly speaking, reflected light isn't 'emitted'. A mirror isn't an emitter of light either.

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

So an oil lamp in a video game is actually an electric lamp?

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Just make the player stumble in pitch black darkness through the entire game, duh.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

You can hardly argue that the lamp itself is using energy when "not a lamp" is using exactly as much energy

[chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de]

It is. Photons get absorbed and then re-emitted. I'd argue that counts as emission as it's one part of the reflection process.

[dabaldeagul@feddit.nl]

The light doesn't become true black, it's dark but not a complete nothingness. So yes, it'll still consume power.

[nutwrench@lemmynsfw.com]

Lamps in video games aren't real. It's the video game that's using the electricity.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Video games aren't real. It's the computer components that use electricity

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

i was making a sad attempt at a joke about electric cars with fake car noises

[renzev@lemmy.world]

computer components aren't real. It's all just tiny gremlins doing maths really fast and turning pixels on and off

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Tiny gremlins aren't real. It's all just a dream. Wake up you have to make me breakfast. I would like pancakes please.

[blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world]

Virtual lights are real lights...

[blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world]

Orbital Mechanics and Launching into the Sun

Astronomy.com's Here's why we can't just rocket nuclear waste into the sun is an excellent explanation of the delta-V required to launch from Earth orbit into the Sun (30 km/s) vs. to escape from the

Space Exploration Stack Exchange (space.stackexchange.com)

[yukily@jlai.lu]

Mind blow

[hereiam@lemmy.world]

The lamp is rendered by small electric lights, be it LEDs or LCD. CRTs are in a bit of an grey area. But you can absolutely use a monitor as a light source by itself .

[a_porcupine@lemmy.world]

Monitors no, TVs very much so.

[languageiscool@lemmy.world]

Babe wake up I want pancakes

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

If you're using an older LCD screen, turning off the lamp uses more electricity than leaving it on

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

That's like saying "lamps don't create light, it's the flame/filament in the lamp that creates the light"

[the_tab_key@lemmy.world]

https://imgur.com/gallery/gRk1uZm