Leds bad!!!

[CHSUB]

LEDS bad for humans, corals must hate them?

good thing i dumped them for MH/t5!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/health/led-streetlights-ama/index.html

 

[GimpyFin]

Another article from CNN to freak people out. More blueish street lighting from sources like LED and MH can suppress melatonin more, affecting people's ability to sleep. Apparently, it's a huge problem for people being able to sleep properly while driving down the road at night.

 

[toothybugs]

Funny. I fall sleep like a baby during the workweek with my late-evening blues still on. Maybe my career standings would improve if I got better sleep and got rid of my tank (or more likely if I didn't surf RC during working hours )

 

[Horace]

LEDS bad for humans, corals must hate them?

good thing i dumped them for MH/t5!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/health/led-streetlights-ama/index.html

Your joking..................right?!?

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[Wazzel]

Another article from CNN to freak people out. More blueish street lighting from sources like LED and MH can suppress melatonin more, affecting people's ability to sleep. Apparently, it's a huge problem for people being able to sleep properly while driving down the road at night.

I never have a problem.

 

[GimpyFin]

I never have a problem.

Sleeping while driving at night? Lol, me either.

 

[Wazzel]

Sleeping while driving at night? Lol, me either.

Puts me right to sleep.

 

[alton]

Looks like everyone needs to get rid of there LED TV's! Oh yea the sun is 65K better not go outside while it is out. 3000K puts me to sleep, that is what was the problem with most classrooms in schools with there warm white in the 80's and no windows. Now we make sure that all classroom designs get natural sunlight to keep the students awake using natural energy. I still remember when some cities used high pressure sodium lamps with that stupid yellow color that changed the color of some cars at night to where people thought there car was missing from the parking lot. I guess everyone here who has an aquarium with all that lighting will go blind shortly? After 36 years of 10K Fluorescent, 14K Metal Halide and now LED's my eyes must be toast, I am surprised I can even read the article.

 

[Dmorty217]

CNN... :debi:

 

[marinelife]

Time to load up on LED lights!

 

[CStrickland]

The need for energy efficiency is serious, but so too is minimizing human risk from bad lighting, both due to glare and to circadian disruption. LED technology can optimize both when properly designed.

Reading comprehension bad !!!

Here's a link to the AMA policy statement on streetlights that the article summarized http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2016/2016-06-14-community-guidance-street-lighting.page I doubt anyone will be surprised to find there's more to it than led = bad

 

[CHSUB]

i guess you are all MSNBC guys!! go hillary.....:hammer:

 

[alton]

I think all street lights and building lights should turn off at 1am and remain off till 6am. Can you imagine how awesome our skies would look? And how much energy we would save? How much theft would go down since the thieves could not see to steal?

 

[Wazzel]

i guess you are all MSNBC guys!! go hillary.....:hammer:

Hardly, but all artificial lights produce similar impacts on humans as the ones pointed out in the LED article.

https://www.healthstatus.com/health_blog/wellness/artificial-light-and-health/

 

[Horace]

For your safety...you all need to send me your LEDs.....again. This is for your own good

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[CHSUB]

maybe this is why all the LED guys are so irritable: the LEDs are affecting their sleep and their corals look terrible? facts are facts!!!!

 

[CHSUB]

Reading comprehension bad !!!

Here's a link to the AMA policy statement on streetlights that the article summarized http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2016/2016-06-14-community-guidance-street-lighting.page I doubt anyone will be surprised to find there's more to it than led = bad

direct quote from article, i hightlighted the important stuff:

An AMA committee issued guidelines.... LED streetlights to "minimize potential harmful human health and environmental effects."

sounds real bad to me....

 

[hkgar]

This whole discussion is putting me to sleep.

 

[Alexraptor]

I think all street lights and building lights should turn off at 1am and remain off till 6am. Can you imagine how awesome our skies would look? And how much energy we would save? How much theft would go down since the thieves could not see to steal?

Psshh thieves you just start using nightvision goggles and be completely protected by the dark! :lolspin:

 

[GimpyFin]

maybe this is why all the LED guys are so irritable: the LEDs are affecting their sleep and their corals look terrible? facts are facts!!!!

Perhaps you missed the little tidbit in one of the reference articles "Most polluting are the lamps with a strong blue emission, like Metal Halide and white LEDs." Looks like you'll need to run out and change your MH tank lights now too.