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This Moment Of "Electrifying" Football Comedy Brought To You By The "Greenest Game" In Superbowl History
While it is now unanimous that Solyndra just won the funniest ad of the Superbowl by a mile, while we await for electricity to return to the Superdome (a stadium which has seen some $471 million in taxpayer funds since Katrina, and apparently not nearly enough) as the Boeing battery used to power up Super Bowl 47 is replaced, we wish to bring to our readers this message of supreme ironic poetry delivered by none other than the US Department of Energy.

From Energy.gov
While the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers compete to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy this weekend, eco-friendly fans and city leaders in New Orleans are competing to maximize sustainability practices to the fullest.
To make this the greenest Super Bowl, the New Orleans Host Committee has partnered with fans and the community to offset energy use across the major Super Bowl venues. The exterior of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome features more than 26,000 LED lights on 96 full-color graphic display panels, designed to wash the building in a spectrum of animated colors, patterns and images. The system draws only 10 kilowatts of electricity -- equivalent to the amount of energy used by a small home -- and the lights are expected to last for many years before needing replacement.
Off the football field, New Orleans is embracing energy efficiency with help from the Energy Department. The city retrofitted four libraries using an integrative design approach -- adding motion sensor lights, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, and upgrades to the building envelopes. These improvements helped cut the libraries’ energy costs by 30 percent and serve as a standard for other city-owned buildings. New Orleans streets feature more than 1,200 energy-efficient light fixtures. In addition to saving the city money on energy costs -- an estimated $70,000 annually -- the new lights help the city reduce routine maintenance due to their longer lifespan.
Embracing energy efficiency and renewable energy is having a profound impact on attracting developers and private industry in the New Orleans’ re-building efforts. The push to re-invent this destination city contributes to makingSunday’s game the greenest in Super Bowl history.
... And darkest
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Almost like a commentary on the economy...
Indeed. The Dow just closed at the psychologically important 14K mark:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2013/02/dow-14000-world-war-three.html
Bush's fault
There was a game?
Al Qaida suicide squirrel fulfills his mission, chewing through the power line insulation separating him from Paradise (and 72 gerbils).
No self-respecting squirrel would ever fuck a gerbil. You never know where those disgusting things have been.
Sly.
Expect more interruptions as we go.........forward.
WTF need have they of libraries in NO?!?
Free public internet access.
Lemmiwinks! Noooooo!
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153736/lemmiwinks-adventure-begins
Dreamliners Still Grounded:
WASHINGTON — At the same time the government certified Boeing's 787 Dreamliners as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's electrical systems from being carried as cargo on passenger planes because of the fire risk.
Dreamliners worldwide were grounded nearly three weeks ago after lithium ion batteries that are part of the planes led to a fire in one plane and smoke in a second.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/boeing-dreamliner-batteries_n_2...
So you're saying that......Dreamliners are like gerbils?
Hmmmmm.......nope, I'm still not seeing the connection.
think man.....think!
Neither fly.
(unlike squirrels, which sometime do)
Touché
Why the fuck do so many people write "It's Bush's fault" on every friggin comment board on the web? Jesus H. Christ you people need to get a new schtick.
I write about Barron's when the lights go out there. LOL!
Review of Barron's: Dated 4 February 2013
http://tinyurl.com/avw74tq
Perhaps we can hand over 475 million dollars of tax payer money to them too.
Way is no one commenting on supporting a private business with tax money? Hey, I like the NFL too, but like NASCAR...these are privately owned businesses and THIS is what I CAN CALL REAL entitlement !!!
I find it hard to believe that after watching the news reports during Hurricane Katrina that New Orleans ever had need of a library.
That was delicious pure evil.
Or perhaps, they need libraries more than anyone else.
Hey, great non-energy use! Sustain... er, sust... ah, shit... SUPER AWESOME FOSSIL FUEL-POWERED WINS THIS ROUND!!!
Too much coverage of the "gays in the NFL issue" this week. So I acted.
Sincerely,
God
There is no God, you homophobic, superstitious loser.
Slow down Jacked-in-the-ass, it was only a joke, Dumbass. Jeesh...
Looking for the joke with a microscope. - Iggy
it's right next to your sense of humor, so if you manage to find one with that microsope, you'll find both.
Now, now..
Is that any way to treat our newest dickhead troll?
You know...real straight men don't give a hoot about it one way or the other, so three cheers for the men of the NFL.
But you have blasphem God for one of his creations, such closeted gall.
This is the kind of crap posting that drives away constructive commentary.
Zerohedge needs a moderator.
And YOU need a fucking sense of humor.
"Zerohedge needs a moderator"? LOL
Wax on, wax off, energy and power are always ephemerial, lights turning on and turning off.
Pay your bills and see the power stay on!
How much longer can the USA pay the power bill? That's the $64,000 super question.
How long? Not long. 'Cause what you reap, is what you sow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfaJ8RqfOg
well, we produce most our electricity with coal and nuclear and NG, so yeah we ought to be ok
In other news:
We just clicked over 16,500,000,000,000 today, according to
usdebtclock.org.
Greenest lights, dumbest game in history. Bunch of overweight american cows with buzzcuts covered with padding. Wussies. Play a real sport Soccer or Australian football, bitches.
I, ah, take it you've never actually WATCHED the game?
Bread and Circuses, Bread and Circuses. The Gladiators of Baltimore have slayed the slaves of San Francisco.
All hail Ceasar!
I don't watch shit propaganda TV or Hollywood brainwashing but I was invited to a party for the game.
Anyone see Jim Harbaugh's brother (John ? from the Ravens) yelling at the league official because the lights went off? Like the guy had any control of the lights. LOL!
The best part of the game was watching the two brother coaches lose their temper and go mental. Jim Harbaugh is almost a headcase.
Green Super Bowl?
Are you kidding me?
I've got your green Super Bowl.
It's hanging between my legs.
Douche bags.
http://www.angrysinner.blogspot.kr/2013/02/yesterday-i-hiked-ten-miles-through.html
Not just the silver market is manipulated. after watching last night super bowl game this link should shed some light on sports. http://www.thefixisin.net/
groovy
You didn't build that light!
Surprised to hear some claiming it's Bush's fault. Never liked the guy, but not sure why he is being blamed...
Umm...the /sarc is implied.
Wow.
Come on man, get your head out of your zombie ass!
Don't tell me you fell for that phony story that 43 was sitting in New Orleans just to read a kindergarten class "MY PET GOAT" when the Towers went down...
just like his spook old man, Bush was out doing mischief - taking down the power supply for Merika's iconic game and visceral self image was planned long ago...by the same gang of bozo boxcutter Saudi billionaires who left the States on a chartered flight within hours of reducing Larry Silversteins' whole world to a pile of rubble.
"reducing Larry Silversteins' whole world to a pile of rubble."
Don't you mean, converting Larry's rented world into $6 billion in cash that he can keep? Of course, there is the issue of the monthly $10 million in rent that's due til the end of the century, but somehow I doubt the lying murderous weasel is sweating it.
umm, bud, don't take this personal or anything, but I think you missed a little bit of the punch line there.
This is hilarous.
Fully expect Obama to turn this into a "teachable moment". More deficit spending (cough stimulus) on infastructure is clearly necessary.
Special Ops, more skeet shooting and Abrogation of Domestic Rights to ensure shit like this never happens again.
he will have a press conference with all the victims of the power out...
was it just the stadium?
maybe they put if lead lights instead of l.e.d. ones
couldn't make the noogers any stupider
well we are ruled by the prince of darkness
When did they put Charlie Murphy in charge?
We know at least one person active in the peanut gallery has zero sense of humor.
Every aspect of Super Bowl is a representation of what's wrong with the USA.
That is certainly the truth.
Fiddling with football, while infrastructure burns out.
Except, that tiny sliver which is called "The Game" is sort of cool.
I mean, YOU know... C'mon.
Black everything this year, enjoy your "Negro Fatigue"
Lol. Quick someone get a white guy, we need the lights on.
totally politically incorrect ...but very funny :>)
Political correctness is for Bolsheviks.
Brilliant.
sad this incompetancy.
Or incompetEncy. E, A, whatever. It's the post-modern era. All truth is subject to perspective, so why should spelling be any different?
Waiting for CNN to report that thousands are dead in the Super Bowl and they have started to eat other.
Please make it so... would be fitting for the NO Free Shit Army
You just brought new lows to stadium food...
Pass the hat around, Americanos, you might be able to find enough money for another hours electricity and put an end to this live, worldwide national testament to your might and power...
Only 3rd world nations gather by the tens of thousands to cheer and watch a ball get tossed around.
In the near future, unreliable electricity will become part of the "new normal" as Dear Leader's policies inflict more damage on the US economy.
Forward!
Mrs. Cog just informed me that they never fully cleaned the stadium of all that raw sewage from Katrina and the bacteria finally ate through the power cables.
She is calling it the Poo Bowl.
That would explain the Turd Ferguson sighting...
Some guy at a hot pretzel machine on the concourse is like "I just hit the On button and poof!" In any case, more reason to have Superbowl on a Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday night...worst. schedule. ever.
Personally I think Beyonce's vibrator set it off...beats Janet's nipple slip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ar-__ub0rc
Maybe it's the Griswolds?
Survivors reveal Superdome horror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4213214.stm
you mean there is super bowl today? is arizona winning?
No, Oakland.
Baltimore Colts were ahead at halftime, but the Houston Oilers have now scored twice.
Y. A. Tittle just got injured so all bets are off now.
You mean Los Angeles
Yes indeed! They are kicking ass over the Boston Greensocks !!!
It doesn't matter who's winning, either way let's eat hotdogs with the works and chug beer until we're drunk as Hell while vacillating between cheers of joy and fits of rage for three hours, then stagger off down the street to piss all over private property, puke in the streets, bust out windows and light shit on fire because OUR GUYS won/lost.
Might want to plan on calling in sick tomorrow.......
So, you're admitting you've been to Bourbon Street?
I was U.S.N. I've been everywhere...........
Ha Haaa!
You fuckers just got Obama'ed. As the empire falls the masses play games. Fuck you DOE assholes.
Forward!
Same thing happened yesterday at the Fulham v Manchester United game in the English Premier League.
Surely a coincidence.
Hal K. Duh
Usd /Jpy is bending over, and getting ready to take it in the {hoop}. Off topic<
should have used LED lights and issued everyone NV goggles !!!
never fear...it will be drone football soon
The lights going out on the NFL, is this a sign or what?
well...not an electric one
Like the fuckers, 70+% felons, can't play in the dark... in which they rob, steal, murder and rape so well.
Ridiculous
Datz Definitely Rayciss...
we have lost all your power...we apologize most sincerely..see you in Malibu.
or:
you have been "Corzined"!
The single most important event is that you will not trust the explanation.
Power surge due to increased sunspot activity.
the main stream sewer media reports that most of the attendees think god will decide the outcome.
See what happens when we take away your illumination bitchez!
Soros bet all the gold on San Francisco.
Green Shoots need rest. You are right I did not build it. You shipped my job to China. Globalist M'Fers. What are you trying to cover up with that photo of a gun. FU and I don't mean Fixture Units.
Going green, turn out the lights. Toilet doesn't flush, you're green. Welcome to Obamaville.
So true, sadly.
Them new fangled low water usage toilets are causing big sewage problems. You see, somebody forgot that when the commodes and sewers were originally designed, the whole idea was that there'd be enough water to flush the poop and paper down to the main lines and then with accumulated flushes of the masses, the flow would be large enough to make it to a final destination.
The new technology (less water) does no provide for such and causes the sewer maintenance folk to have to use extra water and toxic chemicals to get the poop et al to flow again as it gets stuck.
True for many many cities/operations.
Again, the Law of Unintended Consequences, especially for the leftie feel good but not engineered too fucking well world view....
Ah, s'all a buncha shit anyhow....
Hey, shit happens.
It is like everything these days is being driven by a bunch of assholes with their heads in fantasy land. It is this type of thinking and leadership that drives me up the wall more than anything else. That and lack of intellectual honesty used to justify the actions. The amount of corruption (intellectual, moral and criminal) that people turn their heads to or willing go along with just saddens me. How high the mighty have fallen.
Super Bowl Update: In order to help preserve the stock market-positive so-called "Super Bowl Effect", Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is intervening in the game by printing fresh bales of dollars and throwing them in front of AFC team Baltimore players.
"We have many policy tools in the Fed arsenal, and we'll use them as the need arises", said Bernanke to Hannah Storm of ESPN
You have to admit. Lights off saves a ton of energy. One way or another, they met their goal and in the end isn't that what it is really all about?
Now this batch of comments was really funny to me. It seemed to be lacking so much of the current ego-chips-on-the-shoulder name calling and I can only presume that all trolls were off duty today.
My first thought was: Anonymous.
made me laugh.
A moon flare caused a electromagnetic disturbance which tripped the circuit breakers....
did the lights go out in Georgia as well?
vicki lawrence asked me...
It was probably a programmable light controller error. It was set to shut lights off automatically at a given time and someone did not override this prior to the game. That's my guess. I worked on some lighting systems in sports complexes in the NO area a few years ago.
Not one comment on this part?
Where's all the ZH anti-entitlement, anti-handout, anti-welfare, anti-socialism, anti-communist, anti-marxist, etc., etc., screamers?
So apparently no one here cares that wealthy NFL owners are subsidized by the taxpayers. But Gawd forbid that a baby boomer retiree who had paid FICA taxes all his/her working life keeps getting a check from Social Security.
Fucking hypocrites...and btw Fuck the NFL, MLB, NHL and the NBA.
Bread and circuses.
Ben prints more in a day or two.
And it's not just the NFL...here's a blast from the past where MLB owners were/are subsidized by taxpayers:
So what did you 'conservatives' have to say about that form of socialism when it was Dubya and friends that benefitted(His Daddy was Prez when all this went down)? Where was Rushblo, and Beck and the rest of their ilk? I'll tell you, they didn't say shit about that because it's ok when it's 'your guy' doing it. This is exactly why I hate both 'sides' now. Hypocrites of all stripes now reign in the 'land of the free.'
Not that long ago here in Hoosier Land the new stadium for the Indy Colts(Lucas Oil Stadium) was also subsidzed by the taxpayers. I think it's bullshit.
Would have been hilariously ironic if the lights went out as Illuminati puppet Beyonce was shakin' it mid field!
"the game will generate $185 million in direct spending"
They only need about 20 more superbowls to make it back.
Equal opportunity hires strutt their stuff in a post Katrina venue ! This is why Mayor Koch shut down the Harlem, all negro, public hospital ! This is why the MLK, all negro, medical center in Los Angeles was closed !
Looks like a snapshot of our future, a very dark shade of "green".
I really wanna know the names of the manufacturers on their electrical system..
34 extra minutes of superbowl ad revenue $$$...
How much energy/time/money would they save by playing during the day?
Just came across this...
The Centre for Industrial Progress plans to film impromptu interviews with Bill McKibben et al during The Blackout Rally on February 17, 2013 in Washington DC.
Their effort, called The Light Brigade, will put videos on the Internet.
http://industrialprogress.net/2013/01/28/the-blackout-rally-meets-the-light-brigade/