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I think they look pretty cool too: https://www.themayor.eu/uploads/image/file/1031/medium_batstreetlights_PR.jpg https://www.themayor.eu/uploads/image/file/1031
by cyberpunk 3y ago
I think they look pretty cool too: https://www.themayor.eu/uploads/image/file/1031/medium_batstreetlights_PR.jpg https://www.themayor.eu/uploads/image/file/1031/medium_batst...
- Kognito 3y agoLooks like something out of a horror movie. Does remind me of the old low-pressure sodium street lighting that was popular in the UK when I was growing up. They’d glow pink for a while when they first turned on, before turning a deep orange.
- petre 3y agoI think sodium lights are more pleasant than red light district themed street lighting.
- seba_dos1 3y agoThey're still around here in Poland. I don't think they get installed anymore, but where they still work fine they're still there. I love them. That's the best night-time lightning out there. Blueish LED lightning is unsettling in comparison. These orange street lights are comfortable to eyes and make the streets look pretty.
- actionfromafar 3y agoLove the sodium lights. The white LEDs here have a blinding spectrum, also are installed so they glare straight into your eyes. Insane.
- throwawayben 3y agobig positive of the LED lights is much less light pollution, but I do wish they could be warmer
- xyzzyz 3y agoSodium light is actually pretty great from light pollution perspective, because it is extremely easy to filter it out, as it is a very narrow band. Astronomers prefer sodium lamps, for example.
- actionfromafar 3y agoDead moths prefer sodium lamps too, or something. Currently, LEDs are kind of stupid, too. The parking lot outside my home has fixtures with builtin LEDs which will last, like forever. So there's no need to make the LEDs replaceable like a bulb had to be. Except they do break (they dim into a faint glow, and the brown out completely) and they have to replace the whole fixture.
- ilyt 3y ago> Dead moths prefer sodium lamps too, or something. Isn't that just because it is very hot so they die? > Except they do break (they dim into a faint glow, and the brown out completely) and they have to replace the whole fixture. That's the big lie of LED industry; we can make ones lasting 50-100k hours... except we won't cos that would put price up by a bit and get out-competed.
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt's exactly the other way around. Now I'm afraid this is some kind of common misconception, like "not only are LEDs great when it comes to efficiency, they don't pollute the light either!"
- Izkata 3y agoThe ones around here direct the light downwards at the street instead of almost-every-direction like the old ones did, so it's kind-of true that the LED ones have less light pollution (I know I'm getting a hell of a lot less light into my windows), but it's because of the lamp shape and not that they're LEDs.
- nemo44x 3y agoWe had those in the USA as well. If you kicked the pole hard enough you could make it go out for a few minutes. the light they produced was the best and I wish we still used them, or at least an LED that mimics the orange color.
- rocqua 3y agoThey were common in the Netherlands like 15 years ago.
- bee_rider 3y agoIt looks more Cyberpunk to me. The red/blue contrast is nice IMO.
- fredoralive 3y agoThere are some of these red lights near my parents house (in the UK), and driving through them did definitely give off a ye olde low pressure sodium vibe, albeit a bit redder.
- BoxOfRain 3y agoI have such a core memory of reading in the back of the car by the yellow sodium lights that take the colours out of everything. They're really efficient even by modern standards but the bulbs need replacement much more often than LEDs and they aren't made in the UK any more so they're an expensive niche import. I definitely prefer the warm yellow sodium glow to the harsh 'operating table white' LEDs a lot of councils replaced them with but I think they're finally getting the message now because by the time they got round to my street they used much better warm white LEDs to replace the sodium lights.
- cultureswitch 3y agoCool but very weak
- AlecSchueler 3y agoIt's really all you need for eg walking the dog at night. I've only seen them used on streets where cars are very rare especially in the evening.
- gtirloni 3y agoNot enough in dangerous areas though and no city would choose different lamps based on violence statistics (or they would have to admit certain areas are worse to the wider population that never checks statistics).
- AlecSchueler 3y agoYes they're only used in suitable areas.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder if it is partially made up for by the redness of the light. Red light doesn’t mess up your night vision, right?
- throwway120385 3y agoCorrect. It also doesn't interfere with peoples' sleep, which is why it's polite to use the red LED on your headlamp when walking through a campsite at night.
- dmonitor 3y agoit looks like if i walk down that road i’m going to get beaten up by batman.
- trabant00 3y agoLove the name of the file "_PR.jpg". That's all it is.
- ilyt 3y agoThey do but they don't look very effective for actually lighting stuff up