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New York City Street Lights To Go LED
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."
EMP generators, anyone? How about Mooninite patterns?
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Dammit Man, you gave away the plan!
It's not to cause crashes, just to make drivers swerve so that they can be pulled over and ticketed or searched for that 0.00001 microgram of coke on every dollar bill in circulation.
No swerve, no probable cause. Means the ter'ists can just run rampant and kill us all. /sarcasm
$1.175 million sounds way too low to me. That probably wouldn't cover the light poles, LEDs, or installation, let alone replacing all the thousands of existing light poles.
They're not proper street lights if they don't.
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Perhaps this is OT, but I honestly don't know. One thing in my area that is driving me literally ape shit is the new installation of what I assume are energy efficient stop lights (LED?). What kills me is that they are barely visible unless you are looking dead on from the right angle. It reminds me of old passive matrix LCDs. They are simply maddening and they are popping up all over the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I don't understand what the benefit to lights that no one can see are. They seem quite dangerous. In fact even when looking head on at them they are quite dim, and often hard to make out from a distance. If anybody can tell me what the hell they are and why they are around I would be really stoked.
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Hmm... sounds like he's just an average Wikinazi. You know, they have a credo: "There is only one opinion. One truth. One reality".
As if they never heard about relativity... of reality... of truth.... of opinion.
And the whole site is designed to enforce only one groupthink. That of the admins.
Even if the very same Wikinazis will mod me to hell and back for this, I'm still proud of standing by that opinion, and not caving into anonymity. :P
I've got enough karma to burn up anyway. So bite me!
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