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On 4/18/2011 11:48 PM, Doug Linzey wrote:
> On 18/04/2011 11:59 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Nova Scotia's roads and highways will soon be lit exclusively with LED
>> lighting, which will reduce energy costs and lower greenhouse-gas and
>> mercury emissions.
>
> A particularly gratifying part of this story (apart from the
> environmental and light-pollution benefits) is that the LED lighting
> technology was developed and tested in Nova Scotia, and the fixtures are
> manufactured here. This is a boost to the Nova Scotia employment and
> export outlook, not to mention the added benefit of minimal
> transportation effects. Let's just hope that it won't be our dwindling
> forest biomass that powers the lights.
* I wonder how flying Insects relate to the LED lights, in comparison to
other kinds?
fred schueler.
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