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Originally Posted by xelasnave
And I am in a shopping centre looking at the light in the super market..at least double to what would do the job...and in the public areas lights every ten feet and yet the windows to the light outside are so small they clearly are there only to meet the building code and certainly not to contribute light.
I mean everywhere you look things are designed with little regard to energy efficiency...so imagine if we plugged the gaps ..would that help..if only a little?
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Connedsumers have been trained to expect supermarkets to be extremely brightly lit. Can you remember the lighting levels in the older, 1950s, minor supermarkets? They were a lot lower than what ColesWorth use now. Present day connedsumers, however, would complain that the old supermarkets were insufficiently lit.
As for lighting waste, the push to move business and council lighting to LED, is being waged successfooly on the economics front. Brighter and more light for lower bills. And EVEN MOAR light, if you want to keep the bills about the same as at present.
And what that means for everyone is worse and worse light pollution and no more night sky.