Lance Birch <-> wrote:
> Thanks for this - it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately, 
> actually.

  After reading the article I have been noticing the amount of useless
night illumination here where I live. And I assume that here the amount
is relatively moderate. I can only imagine how much wasted night illumination
there must be in really big cities.

  Examining the pattern of night illumination here it feels like the
principle by which they put the lights is only "is there enough illumination
here? No? Let's put a couple of lights more", without the slightest regard
about useless lighting which only consumes electricity (which the city has
to pay!) and causes light pollution.
  Just in the close vicinity of where I live I can see that they could
remove at least half of all the lights without affecting considerably
the illumination. I don't know how much the city has to pay for light
illumination, but I assume that if it was cut in half for the entire
city it wouldn't be a small saving annually.

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                                                          - Warp

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