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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-180-634368968 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They should be better, as they are full cut-off fixtures, so if you are above them, or at a distance horizontally, insects won't even see them. To an impressive display of just how well they work, if you stay in the right lane while crossing the new bridge from Dartmouth to Halifax at night, look down on the end of Barrington Street. The roadway appears lit as if by magic. Pat On Apr 19, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote: > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition - > http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > = = ======================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities = = ======================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University = = ======================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada = = ======================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca = = ======================================================================== --Apple-Mail-180-634368968 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">They should be better, as they = are full cut-off fixtures, so if you are above them, or at a distance = horizontally, insects won't even see them.<div><br></div><div>To an = impressive display of just how well they work, if you stay in the = right lane while crossing the new bridge from Dartmouth to Halifax at = night, look down on the end of Barrington Street. The roadway appears = lit as if by = magic.</div><div><br></div><div>Pat</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><di= v><br><div><div>On Apr 19, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Frederick W. Schueler = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div>On 4/18/2011 11:48 PM, Doug Linzey = wrote:<br><blockquote type=3D"cite">On 18/04/2011 11:59 PM, Patrick = Kelly wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><blockquote type=3D"cite">Nova Scotia's roads and highways = will soon be lit exclusively with = LED<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite"><blockquote = type=3D"cite">lighting, which will reduce energy costs and lower = greenhouse-gas and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><blockquote type=3D"cite">mercury = emissions.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">A particularly = gratifying part of this story (apart from = the<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">environmental and = light-pollution benefits) is that the LED = lighting<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">technology was = developed and tested in Nova Scotia, and the fixtures = are<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">manufactured here. This is = a boost to the Nova Scotia employment and<br></blockquote><blockquote = type=3D"cite">export outlook, not to mention the added benefit of = minimal<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">transportation = effects. Let's just hope that it won't be our = dwindling<br></blockquote><blockquote type=3D"cite">forest biomass that = powers the lights.<br></blockquote><br>* I wonder how flying Insects = relate to the LED lights, in comparison to other kinds?<br><br>fred = schueler.<br>------------------------------------------------------------<= br> Frederick W. = Schueler & Aleta Karstad<br>Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - = <a = href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm">http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm</a><br>= now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition -<br><a = href=3D"http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm">htt= p://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm</a><br>Daily = Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/<br> = RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0<br> = on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W<br> = (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> = http://pinicola.ca/<br>---------------------------------------------------= ---------<br>------------------------------------------------------------<= br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><p = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; "><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D</font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Courier; ">Patrick Kelly</font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Courier; ">Director of Computer Facilities</font></p><p = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; = ">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= </font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; ">Faculty of = Architecture and Planning</font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Courier; ">Dalhousie University</font></p><p = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; = ">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= </font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; ">PO Box 1000 = Stn Central<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> = <span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>5410 Spring Garden = Road</font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; 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