[HN Gopher] The argument for switching off lights at night
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       The argument for switching off lights at night
        
       Author : throw0101a
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-07-25 17:03 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | acabal wrote:
       | The large city I live in is now converting its old sodium lights
       | to new LED lights. Instead of a soft yellow glow, the LED lights
       | are a hard blue light, and so bright that you can't even look at
       | the lamps directly. Even a quick glance burns your eyes.
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       | Perhaps they use less energy, but the color, not to mention the
       | brightness, is deeply unpleasant. I've wondered how these new
       | very bright LEDs will affect wildlife and insects. Not
       | positively, I think.
        
         | warglebargle wrote:
         | the bluer lights allegedly reduce crime, so as long as that
         | dubious stat sticks in people's minds we're stuck with them
        
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