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21-06-2011, 02:35 PM
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| | | Re: Surrey CC goes 'white-light' street lighting
Relation over here on a visit From Holland-Eindhoven said they have been in use a while there.But They do have the Phillips factory there and the Phillips PSV Stadium...
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23-06-2011, 04:09 PM
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| | | Re: Surrey CC goes 'white-light' street lighting
This running in the current CfDS...
Light intruding into bedrooms at night can cause problems involving the human immune system and cancer? [more]
Lights have caused highway fatalities by blinding car drivers? [more]
*Inefficient lighting wastes over £1 billion per annum in the UK alone? [more]
Less than 10% of the UK population can see the beauty of a natural night sky full of stars? [more]
Lighting can help criminals see what they are doing. In Saffron Walden, Essex, the police reported that night-time crime almost halved after the street-lighting was turned off over-night. [more]
*That £1Bn waste per annum is vile !!!!
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07-07-2011, 08:23 AM
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| | | Re: Surrey CC goes 'white-light' street lighting
Follow-up Report: Our new 'white' steetlighting here been running a few weeks now. The light spill skywards is a minimal 1% above a the horizontal [as lamp spec] as I can confirm and much superior to old and now removed yellow sodium lamps which could be seen for miles 
At 11PM BST precisely all our street lights dim by ~50% saving lots-of-juice in the 5hrs to dawn when extinguished 'tll next evening. The lamps are are individually controlled over the wireless internet from Surrey HQ.
With so many surrounding councils with different lighting policies, the sky's overall orange glow here in SW London is however unchanged 
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07-07-2011, 11:10 AM
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| | | Re: Surrey CC goes 'white-light' street lighting
Don't normally post in this forum, this change in streetlighting seems to be occurring all over Britain.
Most seem to be done with PFI-type contracts: e.g., Derby, Nottingham. Noticed this when the lighting on one of the main roads locally was changed. | | | |
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