
Light pollution: time to flick the switch
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Double Edged Sword of LED Lighting
LED lighting can be a double edged sword this. What has materialized is a great increase in light pollution as a result both by putting out more light and also changing the quality of the light that's put out there. We have essentially transitioned to a world where we're spewing far more short wavelength blue rich light at night into the environment than had ever been seen before. The good news about light-making diode technology is they can be controlled you can dim them down and turn them off very quickly when they're not needed.
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