Light Polution: Worried about safety??? (or just aggravating the neighborhood?)

 

Worried about Safety?

Streetlights and night-time decorative lighting may make us feel safer, but it has not been proven to reduce crime rates or accidents. Take a look at the research!

• A 2015 study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health concluded that streetlights do not prevent accidents or crime, but do cost a lot of money. Researchers examined data on traffic collisions and crime in over 60 local authorities in England and Wales; lighting had no effect, whether turned off entirely, dimmed, turned off certain hours, or substituted with low-power LEDs.

• The Chicago Alley Lighting Project revealed that crime rose 21 percent after alley lighting was increased in both frequency and wattage.

• The Outdoor Lighting and Security: Literature Review (2008) found no link between lighting and crime—or a link too subtle to have been evident in studies undertaken to date.

• Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising established no link between lighting and crime. The report, prepared by the University of Maryland presented to the US Congress, concludes: “Is street lighting an effective approach in the reduction and deterrence of crime? The answer is inconclusive . . . 20 years later, we have very little confidence that improved lighting prevents crime.”

fossil fuel vs battery technology.....

....so fossil fuel vs battery technology. 26 liters of gasoline, about 6 gallons = one Gigajoule. 5 Gigajoule of energy is in about 25 gallons of gasoline. All older 1950 - 1970's models of cars had about 25 gallon tanks so held 5 gigajoules of energy each. Also, every farm had an outside tank of 275 gallons for holding furnace oil, or tractor diesel, or gasoline for farm cars. One tank for small farms and three or more tanks for bigger farms that could last 6 months to a year. Each of these tanks were 275 gallon tanks that had about 50 Gigajoules of energy. There were 2 million farms small and big, so that would be what the farms needed in order to operate and grow food for America and the world, about "1 billion Gigajoules" to operate 'just farms', and do food production, every half year. That is the energy output of 5 tsara bomba nuclear bombs, every 5 months. Gasoline had that energy. So to shut gasoline off and 'switch' right now to solar and batteries is not going to happen, no matter what kind of wet dream the democrat leadership has. Just so you know, about 5 Gigajoules of energy could drive a tesla 4,500 miles at its efficiency of 300 Wh a mile. But you have nothing that can store 100 Gigajoules of energy on every farm except gasoline.