Could we remove most streetlights and use that energy for plug-in hybrid vehicles?
I have heard that many streetlights are in place to balance out the load on power plants by using nighttime capacity. And that streetlights and other outdoor lights actually can result in sleeping problems.
How many street/security and other outdoor lights could we remove in communities large and small across America? It would take education and responding to any concerns over safety issues. The energy we would save, the better rest we would have. The crime we would prevent.
We have so much poorly planned lighting. Could we incorporate outdoor lighting into the building code as we see at www.darksky.org?
astronomers clearly do have a problem.
maybe the problem is really related to the world population increase.
which contributes to many more problems besides astronomy.
i could list them, but for every one, there will be people who will vehimently disagree with me.
It%26#039;s city greed just like their water enslavement. Sewage can be kept in tanks without the need for water, yet the city will never give up its power over us. Not until money is renderred useless. That day, thank God, is getting closer and closer. Those people who truly care about the future of humans and the living planet are not the people in Washington D. C. or in other capitols of the world. Pollution is the United States lost opportunity for true power in the world--oil is death, death is oil. And the politicians will spill our blood for themselves and for their secret moonbases with gentics laboratories in order that they may have the perfecet slaves (in every sense of the word) and live to be 200 years old. For their souls truly suffer even now as they keep the vast majority of citizens in the dark concerning the destruction of our planet. At least Mr Gore has tried to wake up humanity, even though his hands are tied as to what truths he can tell us. For the corporate war mongers in Washington keep his hands tied in order that they continue their pythonic grasp on control and power over the masses, least their government (mafia) be renderred uselless. So- Dollar - DIE.
