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

    What's it to you, pal?

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  2. Bad plan in snowy environment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here in Portland, OR, we have already started to use LED street lights. And now that we're in a snow storm, these lights aren't working. LEDs don't produce heat (that's why they're efficient). By not producing heat, they don't melt the snow away from them. So all the LED streetlights in Portland are covered in snow and cannot be seen.

    The old lights produce enough heat to melt all the snow. Snow in Portland is rare, so it's not that big of a deal. In NY, it's quite the opposite.

  3. Re:flicker crashes by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, they have been testing these lights in my home town of Scottsdale, and they have three different types installed along one stretch of road way. They are super bright, and there is no flicker whatsoever.

    The fact that they are directional is an advantage in this case since they are meant to throw light in a cone shape. The ones I've seen have no secondary lens. If there is any covering at all it is completely transparent glass.

    Personally I like them because the light is white, not the orange of sodium vapor. Reminds me of when I was a kid before the move from mercury vapor to sodium vapor...

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  4. Re:Giant LED light bulbs by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why can't they make a single led the size of a lightbulb instead of 100 small led's.

    Is it possible to make a single, huge led?

    I don't know. Maybe it's the same reason that they can't make a tungsten filament the size of a whole light bulb. Instead, they keep selling us a tiny wire the size of a pubic hair surrounded by a huge void filled with argon gas. This has been going on for well over a century, and they never seem to fix it.

  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!!!