Green Options » the big apple http://greenoptions.com/tag/the-big-apple Posts tagged 'the big apple' Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New York City To Get LED Street Lighting http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/20/new-york-city-to-get-led-street-lighting/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/20/new-york-city-to-get-led-street-lighting/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:50:39 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/20/new-york-city-to-get-led-street-lighting/

New York City’s Department of Transportation has tapped the Office for Visual Interaction for testing LED street lighting around the Big Apple. If successful, all of the city’s 300,000 street lamps could one day be made up of LEDs.

Of course, LEDs are just plain awesome! Their power consumption is much lower than that of standard bulbs. Heck, even lower than that of CFLs.

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