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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 morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's it to you, pal?

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  2. 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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  3. 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!!!

  4. 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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