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I remember when the sodium vapors started deploying. Ugh... a fairly common reaction, at the time. So, this may be a "change." But it's a change away from a
by pasbesoin 10y ago
I remember when the sodium vapors started deploying. Ugh... a fairly common reaction, at the time.
So, this may be a "change." But it's a change away from a few decades of orange.
One thing I wonder, is whether they will continue to deliberately "light everything", or whether they will implement some tuning to restrict lightflow to more relevant areas.
It isn't just street lighting. In places like Chicago, they've chosen in many areas to make that light as much as possible a seamless and universal presence. It doesn't just illuminate the streets and walkways. (Because crime, is the primary rhetoric around this.)
P.S. One difference between the sodium vapor (and before them, the mercury vapor) lights and the new LED lighting, is that the former hang down within a diffuser. This makes it easy to have illumination up to the second story windows. The LED lights I've seen have the LED's within or at the edge of the overhead hood. I wonder whether such broad illumination is as readily achieved with them. Also, the LED's are very bright pinpoints of light. Especially if they are going to go for "illuminate everything," this could make looking down the street kind of uncomfortable. I, for one, do my best not to look at those bright spots -- they are painfully bright, and I even worry about vision damage.
- autokad 10y agoa new building development put up LED lights and its awful. I cant open my curtains without having piercing white like come in. its hard to explain, its not like a spot light is on the window, but it hurts my eyes even when its hitting the peripherals.
- tvanantwerp 10y agoThe apartments across from mine were renovated and the outdoor lights replaced with LEDs. Wrecked my sleep for months until I wised up and bought blackout curtains. Those things are truly awful.
- kingmanaz 10y agoI know what you mean. The words "sterile" or "clinical" come to mind. Chalk it up to another unintelligent fad, much like the 20,000-lumen tiny blue LED lights hardware manufacturers use indiscriminately as status indicators. Lord, I've wasted so much duct tape covering those things...
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- dawnerd 10y agoHave a streetlight outside my house that has LEDs that are not diffused in any way. If they simply put a cover over it that diffused even just a little it wouldn't be so blinding.