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Super efficient LEDs have made this problem totally out of control. Incredibly bright while also being very cheap to run. Paranoid/careless jackasses are linin
by Workaccount2 1y ago
Super efficient LEDs have made this problem totally out of control. Incredibly bright while also being very cheap to run.
Paranoid/careless jackasses are lining their houses with 100,000 lumen cool white prison lights they bought on amazon for $30.
Parking lots are getting filled with ridiculously bright street lights because "Brighter = better? Right?". Just enough light to see? No! We need to recreate the sun for this vacant lot all night every night!
- soulofmischief 1y agoIt's worse than that. The high-flicker, narrow-band LEDs used for most LED streetlights today create insanely bad color discrepancy and distortion due to motion. It's a crime against nature and a crime against humanity that cities have allowed such a scourge to proliferate, when we have the science and technology for much better LED street lights. It gets even worse because in order to make up for these discrepancies and distortion, manufacturers just.... turn them up brighter, fundamentally ignoring the problem and only making it worse. It's bad enough that this affects drivers and pedestrians, but think of all of the animals who don't get a say, and who are even more sensitive to the flicker and lack of color information.