Crowd-sourced project to produce anti-light pollution film for luminous billboards

[gary]

One of our customers, Dr. Fabio Falchi in Mantova Italy, has emailed me
requesting help to spread the word on his crowd-sourced
project to further the development of an innovative plastic film to cover
luminous billboards which is aimed to reduce their night-sky light
pollution.

Fabio writes :-

Originally Posted by Dr. Fabio Falchi

I worked on light pollution for more than 20 years, as a researcher at ISTIL - Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute (www.istil.eu) and as president of CieloBuio, Association for the protection of the night sky (www.cielobuio.org). At ISTIL we realized the first world atlas of light pollution (http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/328/3/689.short).

Originally Posted by Dr. Fabio Falchi

The product will be a plastic film with optical properties that will allow light from signs to go only where needed—not into the sky, into the night environment or into bedrooms.
We have already performed optical software simulations showing that the signs will be as bright as usual toward the observers, but will be almost black as seen from above.

Originally Posted by Dr. Fabio Falchi

The next step will be the protection of the technology and the production of prototypes. For this your support is fundamental. With the subsequent step we aim to start the production of the film to make it available to the sign market.

You can learn more about the project, including contributing, here :-
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/s...luminous-signs

Best Regards

Gary Kopff
Wildcard Innovations Pty Ltd