Leds bad!!!

[Wazzel]

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....

The AMA has issued similar guidelines warning of the health risk of any artificial lighting. From what I am gathering LEDs do not look to be significantly different.

http://articles.courant.com/2012-06...reast-cancer-light-pollution-ama-board-member

 

[Bent]

Not this again.

Read the actual study that the article is based on.

It makes very loose connections and lots of assumptions that aren't in the article.

It's an op-Ed piece.

 

[alton]

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!!!!

Now thats funny

 

[Alexraptor]

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.

Halogen?

 

[GimpyFin]

Halogen?

Yes! I think maybe CNN should publish an article about fluorescent lighting being bad because it contains Mercury. Then people can freak out again and switch from T5 to LEDs. :lol2:

 

[Alexraptor]

Yes! I think maybe CNN should publish an article about fluorescent lighting being bad because it contains Mercury. Then people can freak out again and switch from T5 to LEDs. :lol2:

Brilliant!!! :ape:

 

[SPS_77493]

Nothing will you faster than the processed food you are consuming.

 

[Sounds Fishy]

Yes! I think maybe CNN should publish an article about fluorescent lighting being bad because it contains Mercury. Then people can freak out again and switch from T5 to LEDs. :lol2:

I think incandescent bulbs put me to sleep and will be the wave of the future.

 

[Tarawa]

I never bought into the whole sudden "blue light is the devil" fad. Must be a large number of orange lights in warehouses that need sellin'. That or old ppl dont like our new young whipper-snapper white/blue lights. =D

 

[reef thief]

They'd sleep just fine if they would drink more water and PT their *** of during the day!

 

[Ron Reefman]

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!!!!

I think what makes "LED guys" irritable is BS like this and the fools that believe it. My guess is most likely right wing conspiracy theorists!:spin3:

 

[cham]

LED's are hard on our eyes and thus hard on our corals? Wait, the sun is hard on our eyes too. Quick, everyone head to your nearest reef and pull those poor corals out and into our T5 & MH tanks. We can save them all!!!!