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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2011 10:54:35 GMT
A strange disease has been sweeping my town, it may have been happening in yours too! Very slowly all the street lights have been turning from orange to white! The disease had reached all roads leading to ours before Christmas - and a man with a van and a "cherry picker" has just been along very professionally belting the old light with a hammer and wiring in the new one along our road. What a pity they couldn't put hoods on all the lights as they did it to throw more light down to the ground and less into the sky - but perish the thought that they'd think of anything so practical. This is all about carbon footprints folks! Anyway - I shall report back later - but for now, here's a couple of pics I took on "Automatic" settings just before new year at half five in the evening. The camera has made the sky lighter than it was. Tonight or tomorrow I'll do the same with these new lamps. Many people have been complaining that the L.E.D ones aren't as bright. It's a close call, for looking at them directly they would seem brighter - but the light they cast seems more dissipated than the sodium orange light. Has anyone else experienced them?
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Post by Weyland on Jan 10, 2011 11:47:47 GMT
A strange disease has been sweeping my town, it may have been happening in yours too! Very slowly all the street lights have been turning from orange to white! I thought sodium lights had more or less gone by now. Can't say I miss them. I agree about the shades. That's one good thing about living here -- no street-lights -- beautiful night skies. When I was a kid we used to visit various relatives (by bus or train) just about every other week, in rotation. A trip to Wallsend was always a treat, partly because the street lights were actinic blue, rather than the yellow/orange where we lived near the A1. Seemed exotic. And there were green Tyneside buses there, as well as the usual banana-yellow ones of Newcastle Transport. Simple days. [/nostalgia] Here's a thriving modern version, in Arnhem (where my daughter lives). They can't half accelerate (as could the old ones).
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Post by everso on Jan 10, 2011 14:51:13 GMT
I'm not very keen (and apologies if I tread on anyone's toes here) on the LED Christmas lights that you see nowadays. Far too Southend on Sea Illuminations for my taste. I like to see lots of lights at Christmas, but ones that aren't so harsh.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 10, 2011 15:06:53 GMT
I'm not very keen (and apologies if I tread on anyone's toes here) on the LED Christmas lights that you see nowadays. Far too Southend on Sea Illuminations for my taste. I like to see lots of lights at Christmas, but ones that aren't so harsh. Agreed. The yuppies up the road are major culprits. The whole house was festooned with flashing LEDs, roof and fences as well, plus an illuminated Santa on the chimney. Lowers the tone, it does. But at least they finished on Twelfth Night, as nature intended. The farm over the road will have theirs on until March, if last year is anything to go by. It's not just Britain. There's a couple of villages in Noord-Holland that seemingly compete with each other for the tackiest lights trophy, and their festive season starts December 5 (Sinterklaas) plus a couple of weeks before that. Every bloody huis. Bah. Humbug.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 10, 2011 17:28:59 GMT
It's a shame that they don't think these things through, they could easily install higher lumen LED's for the same cost, they'd provide perfectly adequate light and still cost only a fraction of the cost of old school street lighting in both longevity and running costs. As an aside...I've just spent several whole fucking days without intarwebs access, it's a bloody outrage...at one point, I seriously considered using my mobile phone for internets stuff, that's how desperate the situation was. (I did catch WALL-E on the tele though, it was fupping ace!). AH
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Post by everso on Jan 10, 2011 18:34:13 GMT
It's a shame that they don't think these things through, they could easily install higher lumen LED's for the same cost, they'd provide perfectly adequate light and still cost only a fraction of the cost of old school street lighting in both longevity and running costs. As an aside ...I've just spent several whole fucking days without intarwebs access, it's a bloody outrage...at one point, I seriously considered using my mobile phone for internets stuff, that's how desperate the situation was. (I did catch WALL-E on the tele though, it was fupping ace!). AH My sympathies. I worry that I'm becoming addicted to my computer. I do get a bit aggy when I'm on holiday and can't get access to the internet.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2011 23:32:03 GMT
Thought it had been quiet - but I just thought King Alpha was out keeping his hareem in order. Tried photoing the lights tonight - but it was chucking it down and not much fun out there. The one right outside the house certainly doesn't shine through the curtains as much as the old ones did.
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