[Chaos-l] Light pollution reduction opportunity: New lighting inRaleigh

[Zekers!]

Good thought.  Do we write to city planners? How do we find out who selects 
the actual fixtures?
zz

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From: "Stewart-Taylor, Jon" <jstewart at misg.com>
To: "CHAOS" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:27 AM
Subject: [Chaos-l] Light pollution reduction opportunity: New lighting 
inRaleigh


> Hi all.  Listening to NPR this morning, I heard an interesting article.
> They were discussing how Cree is developing LED lighting for municipal
> use , and that Raleigh is testing it
> (http://www.cree.com/press/press_detail.asp?i=1171295242023).  The LEDs
> seem to be about 40% more efficient than conventional lighting.
> Presumably there'll be a lot of new lights going in, not just in
> Raleigh, but throughout the nation, as replacing older lights with the
> new ones will pay for itself Very Quickly.
>
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if all of the new lights were full-cutoff?
>
> It should be possible to get lighting ordinances in place which specify
> all new and replacement lighting must be full-cutoff, while
> grandfathering the old lighting.  We won't need to go after the old
> stuff, because there'll be market incentives to replace them.  All we
> have to do is make sure new lighting is good lighting.
>
> Does anyone else see this kind of potential?  Does anybody have any
> ideas about how we should go about it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> J.
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