The Business Journals

What businesses need to know when comparing LED and high-pressure sodium lights

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Chicago magazine

Chicago to Soften Its Purgatorial Orange Glow With White CMH Street Lights

Here’s how astronauts see us, or at least used to, back when we had astronauts: That’s set to change, at least a bit, as the city rolls out 16,300 ceramic metal halide street lights with the help of ...
The Gazette

SIDE STREETS: Take your pick: sodium, ceramic, LED or neon

Clear your calendar the week of Oct. 8. We all have a big test to take. It’s the streetlight test. And, thankfully, it’s multiple choice. Do you like LED? Or ceramic metal halide? Or good old high ...
WLRN

LED streetlights are energy efficient, but are they environmentally friendly? It's complicated

Rick Newman's backyard in east Boca Raton has that Old Florida vibe: A swimming pool is surrounded by live oaks and palms. For years, the trees' lush canopy has kept the area shaded against the sun, ...
Columbus Dispatch

LED street lights too bright for some, who also worry about effect on wildlife

Like the 1980s Corey Hart song, Heidi Vanderpool wears her sunglasses at night. When she walks her dog in her Harrison West neighborhood, Vanderpool puts on her sunglasses because the LED streetlights ...
Portland Press Herald

Guest Column – Kennebunk deserves quality street lighting

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Kennebunk citizens may not be aware that the town has been on a program to ...
WEAU

Eau Claire looking for new safer, efficient street lights

Up until a few years ago, the City of Eau Claire had used the same kind of lights, known as high powered sodium lights, on the streets for decades. The city then switched to LED bulbs around five ...
WUFT

Up All Light: Micanopy's New LED Streetlights Generate Mixed Reactions

Micanopy residents this month have been greeted by a brighter light in the dark. As a result of a partnership with Duke Energy, 123 4000 Kelvin light-emitting diode streetlights now light the town’s ...
Nasdaq

FirstEnergy's (FE) Arm Replaces Sodium Lights With Smart LED

FirstEnergy Corp.’s FE unit Penelec converted more than 2,300 high-pressure sodium streetlights into smart LED streetlamps in downtown Erie and along the Bayfront during the period between November ...
Medicine Buffalo

Sodium’s high-pressure transformation can tell us about the interiors of stars, planets

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Travel deep enough below Earth’s surface or inside the center of the Sun, and matter changes on an atomic level. The mounting pressure within stars and planets can cause metals to ...
The Business Journals

What businesses need to know when comparing LED and high-pressure sodium lights

Think back to mixing primary-color paint in grade school. Remember how mixing in yellow changes white, blue and red? Lighting is no exception. A problem too often overlooked is how the yellow-tinted ...