Ann Arbor Goes LED
According to the Canadian Press, Ann Arbor is going LED.
The eco-friendly city about 50 kilometres west of Detroit that’s home to the University of Michigan says it will be the first in the United States to convert all of its downtown street lights to the technology that uses less than half the energy of traditional bulbs and could save the community $100,000 a year over the long haul.
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Lighting consumes 22 per cent of electricity produced in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy, and widespread use of LED lighting could cut consumption in half. By 2027, LED lighting could cut annual energy use by the equivalent of 500 million barrels of oil, with the attendant reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas believed to be responsible for global warming. Hieftje said the lighting conversion will reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of taking 400 cars off the road for one year. He said it will cost about $450 to replace each globe and fit the new fixture into an existing pole, and the two-year project is being paid for by a $630,000 grant from the city’s Downtown Development Authority.
Nathan was thinking green at 8:48 AM on October 22, 2007
Comments are sorta kinda broken right now. We're working on it but to save energy can only work in daytime when solar system is at peak performance.
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