The Business Journals

What businesses need to know when comparing LED and high-pressure sodium lights

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WHYY

LED streetlights are coming to Philadelphia. Will they mess with our sleep?

as the city moves forward with the lighting makeover, experts are urging officials to consider public health and environmental questions. LED lighting in the background vs high-pressure sodium ...

Windsor to convert over 1K streetlights to LED

DENVER (KDVR) — The town of Windsor is going to convert more than 1,000 streetlights to LED lights, according to a press ...
Business Wire

Fluence Launches RAPTR, a High-Output LED Replacement for Legacy Lighting Technology

Featuring Fluence’s diverse spectral portfolio, RAPTR is a highly efficient and durable one-to-one replacement for high-pressure sodium fixtures AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluence, a leading ...
EDN

Retrofitted fire station demos LED lights next to old high-pressure sodium

Here’s a photo of a building’s night lighting after some retrofitting with LEDS. The Fire and Emergency Services building for the US Army’s Camp Humphreys (Pyeongtaek, Korea) replaced some of its ...
The Boston Globe

As use of LED street lights grows, so do concerns over ‘blue light’

Spurred by a desire to lower energy costs, cities and towns in the area — and throughout the country — are overhauling their street lights. One after another, high-pressure sodium lights, a longtime ...
Magazine

Lunera's HID LED 360 lamp replaces both metal halide and high-pressure sodium lamps

Santa Clara, Calif., – Lunera Lighting, Inc. is proud to announce the Lunera HID LED 360 lamp for architectural post top fixtures, which are commonly used to illuminate walking pathways and building ...
Electronic Design

LED street lighting uses 50% less energy than high-pressure sodium alternatives

Cree Inc. announces a significant innovation in street lighting with the introduction of the XSP Series LED Street Light, what the company says is the most affordable and efficient Cree LED street ...
Medicine Buffalo

Sodium’s high-pressure transformation can tell us about the interiors of stars, planets

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Travel deep enough below Earth’s surface or inside the center of the Sun, and matter changes on an atomic level. The mounting pressure within stars and planets can cause metals to ...
Chicago Tribune

Chicago’s night sky is about to become an orange memory, as the city nears end of LED streetlight replacement. But are the new lights better?

For almost two generations of Chicagoans, orange has been the color of night. High pressure sodium vapor lights, which create a glow reminiscent of a tire fire, have lit Chicago since the 1970s. They ...
The Business Journals

What businesses need to know when comparing LED and high-pressure sodium lights

A problem too often overlooked is how the yellow-tinted light of high-pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures, which are typically found lighting streets and some parking lots, impacts your perception of the ...