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Yes! I am not crazy! Seriously, do we really need lights that make the city as light as in the day? I'd rather give my retinas a rest.
by jackyinger 10y ago
Yes! I am not crazy! Seriously, do we really need lights that make the city as light as in the day? I'd rather give my retinas a rest.
- bunderbunder 10y agoI'm not sure that we do need them, at least not to the extent that they're used. http://darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-safety/ http://darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-safety...
- mjevans 10y agoYes, enough to see enough. Like artificial moon-light.
- lake99 10y ago> as light as in the day It's got nothing to do with intensity, which would be impossible to achieve, for all practical purposes. The article misused the word here. Rather, it's about color temperature. I think this problem is overblown, because I've not heard similar complaints leveled against mercury-vapour lamps. I've grown up around them nearly all my life.
- jackyinger 10y agoWhen you replace 1:1 vapor laps with LEDs an adequately lit parking lot becomes lit like a stage. Though to your color temp point, if we could get lower color temperature that'd be great. IIRC red LEDs are much more efficient than full spectrum anyway.