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> There was an article lately about how electrical consumption for city lights increased despite the switch to LEDs. Its something like a 6x reduction in elect
by gameswithgo 9y ago
> There was an article lately about how electrical consumption for city lights increased despite the switch to LEDs.
Its something like a 6x reduction in electric usage vs incandescent, how would people manage to use 6x more light?
OR was this a switch from CFL to LED that led to more usage?
- grondilu 9y agoThey'd just have to use at least six times more lights. Or leave them on more often. That does not seem impossible to me. That being said, I may just be misremembering it. Maybe it was just about light pollution, but I do think it was about electric consumption. I'm just not sure.
- amalcon 9y agoMost streetlamps had been HID lamps for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_discharge_lamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_discharge_lamp Efficiency was one reason for this, but the bigger reason was just that (for the duty cycle of a streetlamp) they require fewer installations and last way longer than incandescent bulbs. This means that the maintenance costs are much lower.