Re: LED streetlamps - jobs for the boys

[Jonno]

Tough Guy no. 1265 scribbled

news.alt.net

Nuff said

[Dave Plowman (News)]

1/10. Must try harder.

[Richard Tobin]

No, it was 10/10 for trolling.

-- Richard

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Cheap, reliable, good retention, your point is?

[Mr On!on]

It's a notorious troll-haven and the News service provider of last resort for those who've been TOSsed from all the respectable NSPs. It's widely killfiled out of hand by right-thinking Usenetters. I'd rather be derided as a Google Groups user than show up as an Altopia customer (oh, the shame).

[Judith]

Necessary? In what way?

Were the cables so big that the smaller current could not fight its way through them or it got lost in the "big" cables somewhere?

[harryagain]

He's taking the piss/trolling. You fell for it. But socialists are not clever.

[Another John]

From that page:

IMHO, this is wrong. LED lighting provides a hell of a lot more _glare_, but (to me, strangely), less _illumination_. And there is a hell of an increase in light pollution, too. At least, wherever I have seen LED lighting (streets, business premises, domestic "security" lights, car headlights, etc etc etc.

Further, these new street lights are going to have to stay working flawlessly for a bloody long time, to justify the (I imagine) horrifying expense that is going into installing them.

John

[Tim Streater]

Back to the future, eh? I remember when most street lights were a 100W bulb with a two sided reflector above that looked a bit like one of those reflector balls from a dance hall.

Then we got sodium (hint: that's not white) and everyone said how much better it was.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Is this the new name for the parrot person?

[Tim Watts]

If so, he does a good job of inventing a persona and keeping in character. More like Dribble reinvented as a northerner I'd say.

[Martin Bonner]

I'm pretty sure this is Uncle Pete. Both have posted in uklm as being from Scotland, and Tough Guy linked to a personal website that had 'peter' in the domain name.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Pieces of nine, pieces of nine! Parroty error.

[ARW]

Well talk about timing. I got LED streetlights fitted today. New heads only. And what pile of s**te they are. Not a patch on the new column and head LED lamps in my parents village.