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New York City Street Lights To Go LED

Posted by Soulskill on from the big-apple-lite dept.

eldavojohn writes "Wired has a short piece on NYC's new street light project. I don't think we need to belabor the many benefits that LEDs hold over traditional light bulbs, but the finishing touches are being addressed, and they will hopefully be put into place sometime next year. This design won a competition back in 2004, and OVI has been whittling down the prototypes. At $1.175 million, this sounds like a pretty cheap deal considering the DOE forked over $21 million to 13 R&D projects along the same lines."

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  1. How by no-body · · Score: 4, Funny

    many NewYorkers does it take now to change a light bulb?

    1. Re:How by Kashell · · Score: 1, Funny

      2 New Yorkers. One to install the lightbulb, and one to mug him for the dead light bulb afterwards.

    2. Re:How by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's it to you, pal?

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    3. Re:How by LoRdTAW · · Score: 2, Funny

      None. They don't work because someone stole all the copper wire.

      Seriously, this happens all the time in the parks.

  2. Re:I hate leds!! by KudyardRipling · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blue Light hazard? No wonder my eyes hurt after shopping at K-Mart.

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  3. What's by Thing+1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    it to you pal?

    (Posting this because you missed out on the subject/comment flow...)

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  4. Re:Bad plan in snowy environment... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

    So all the LED streetlights in Portland are covered in snow and cannot be seen.

    Since LEDs are more efficient (more lumens per watt) the colder their tmperature, you can at least take comfort in the fact those snow-encrusted street-lamps are very efficiently lighting up the inside of the snow.

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  5. metric vs. imperial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] Instead, they keep selling us a tiny wire the size of a pubic hair [...]

    Please adopt the metric system. PLEASE!!!

  6. What's the metric equivalent? by name_already_taken · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...] Instead, they keep selling us a tiny wire the size of a pubic hair [...]

    Please adopt the metric system. PLEASE!!!

    Pray tell, can you enlighten us to what the metric equivalent of a pubic hair is?

    5.3 centicurlies?

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    1. Re:What's the metric equivalent? by jonbryce · · Score: 2, Funny

      1 m long, about 0.01 mm diameter.

      That's about the size of the wire in the lightbulb, perhaps the grandparent poster's pubic hairs are a similar size.

      Once coiled up, the wire is about 2 cm long. I suppose that is closer to the length of a typical pubic hair.

  7. Re:flicker crashes by TheLink · · Score: 2, Funny

    "take on those annoying audiophiles buying 1000 euro power chords."

    1000? Wow they must be really big fans of European hard rock/metal.

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