Re: If they were giving awards for light pollution, this would be a Nobel candidate...

I could make a nice ball telescope out of that street light!

--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Alexander Avtanski <alex@No-Spam> wrote:

From: Alexander Avtanski <alex@No-Spam>
Subject: [TAC] If they were giving awards for light pollution, this would be a Nobel candidate...
To: "TAC mailing list" <tac@No-Spam>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 11:08 AM

Hello,

Last weekend, while doing some shopping, I noticed the bad design of the lights at Almaden Plaza shopping center (at Blossom Hill & Almaden in San Jose, where Barnes & Noble are):

  http://avtanski.net/images/var/lp/lp1.jpg

This alone would be bad enough as light polluting designs go, but then I saw something that I can describe only as monumental stupidity:

  http://avtanski.net/images/var/lp/lp2.jpg

Not only a lot of light gets wasted in the sky, but now there is a _reflector_ to stop the light from accidentally reaching the ground!

OK, maybe they didn't have the right bulb when doing replacement, but still the best fitting word is "dumb".  Can something be done about this?  It is a drop in the ocean, I know, but anyway...

- Alex

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