LED Lights Changing Cities

It’s no surprise to hear that LED lights have been invading cities for years, with their easier methods of manipulation and cheaper electric costs. But it might be interesting to hear that there are more benefits to LED lights taking over as streetlights, and just lights all over the town. It has nothing to do funds, or even money, but something even more beautiful than that. LED lights are giving cities their night sky back.

Because LED lights have better piercing power when it comes to lighting up an area, without leaving a glare behind there are entire cities that had previously lost their night skies to light pollution finding the sky comes back in full force once LED lights are installed. It’s long been thought that with the growing of urbanization across the world it would just have to be accepted that the loss of the night sky, and even the confusion of birds and other wildlife from the glaring bright lights would just have to happen. No one truly expected to see this kind of side effect to LED lights.

LED lightingNow, we are able to see the night sky again, and give back something that should be universally shared and seen with every human being in the world. It’s hard to believe that there are actually people that have been born in a time where they never really saw anything but black when they looked up at the sky. And now LED lights can truly change that growing battle that humans were starting to face with Light Pollution in the world.

Just a quick look at Los Angeles today can show just how much the LED lights can have an impact, when before there was so much light saturation everywhere that even color was faded at night, now everything is crisp and the sky is able to shine. It is almost like going from regular television to HD with the change to LED lights. Hopefully it picks up across cities everywhere so the world can have the night sky back.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2014/09/10/bright-lights-big-profits/