...fake specs...
The "ECO" nuts have screwed society with their agendas. I don't mean that renewable energy is not great, I mean that the OBSESSION with LED everything is a political ego massage.
As my attention started to drift on the final leg of a 195 mile round trip the other night, I realised that the orange glow on the horizon, from whatever city/town is out there, has gone - now it's a white glow. But being white and like moonlight, it's much less obvious. In fact, I think I only really noticed because of the lack of orange glow and knowing what that would have looked like.
It won't be long before only olde fuddy-duddies will remember seeing that glow.
As my attention started to drift on the final leg of a 195 mile round trip the other night, I realised that the orange glow on the horizon, from whatever city/town is out there, has gone - now it's a white glow. But being white and like moonlight, it's much less obvious. In fact, I think I only really noticed because of the lack of orange glow and knowing what that would have looked like.
It won't be long before only olde fuddy-duddies will remember seeing that glow.
olde fuddy-duddies remember mercury blue streetlighting, and fuddy-duddies remember sodium halide.
Detroit massive $185M LED streetlight project
25,320 cobra heads replaced as crapola Leotek which did not last "premature burning out".
$3.9M worth of LED units, $5.2M installation and then a lawsuit over it all. I'll bet sodium would've been much cheaper lol.
LED streetlighting has an anemic dim glow, dark splotches on the road, fake specs leaving civil engineers thinking they can light up more with less.
boring olde phartes?
It's funny to hear about nostalgia for high pressure sodium, I guess it's younger folks who don't remember the nice clean white light we had before those awful orange things replaced everything in the name of energy efficiency.
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One of my earlier memories is lying on the back seat of an Austin A30, feeling horribly travel sick, watching the orange low pressure Sodium lamps drift by.
I recall reading an article that highway/street lights in white is easier for older people to see. I can't find that article anymore.
But, it makes sense -- white comprises of the entire visible color spectrum. Anyone with decreased sensitivity to any particular color can have the rest of the color spectrum to rely on.
The most common color blindness is red-green (8% of male, 0.5% female for Northern European descent according to Wikipedia), next to that is blue-yellow. Yellow, orange, amber are colors are a mix of red and green, so it is unfriendly to decreased sensitivity to red-green. The traffic light colors are even less friendly to them, yet red-green insensitivity appears to be the most common.
It may not make any difference to most of us, but I guess only until someone runs over your dog because the street is lid with yellowish lamps.
Oh holy crap this one annoyed me. They replaced all our gentle orange sodium lights with LEDs a few years back. I had to change the curtains in the end for blackout ones because it’s like having prison arc searchlights chasing you at night otherwise.
But a year down the line I don’t even notice any more
It's funny to hear about nostalgia for high pressure sodium, I guess it's younger folks who don't remember the nice clean white light we had before those awful orange things replaced everything in the name of energy efficiency. Now we're back to nice clean white light, in the name of even better energy efficiency. I hated HPS when they initially took over and I don't miss them one bit now that they're going away.