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Old 04-09-2013, 11:25 PM   #696 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Arragonis View Post
The street lighting here is great - its one of the main things I miss when I have to venture overseas.
Whether you like it or not isn't the point, it's that Britain's use of so much energy on outdoor lighting (and so many other things that a reasonably frugal person would think wasteful) proves that it is hardly energy starved.

Personally, I loathe street lighting, and unused outdoor lighting in general. (Particularly the orange mercury-vapor ones that make parking lots look like prison compounds - and why do our anti-CFL friends never complain about the mercury in those lights, I wonder?) I'm glad I live where there are few, and can easily get away to where there are none at all.