Last year I visited my friend in Brooklyn for New Years. We walked over to Prospect Park and enjoyed the fireworks while freezing our toes off. It was lovely! It was my first time seeing Prospect Park, which was cool. Much of Prospect Park was designed by famed landscape designer Frederick Olmstead, who played a large role in Erik Larson's Devil In The White City, which I had just finished reading. In addition to designing Prospect Park, Olmstead also was responsible for Central Park and much of the landscaping done for the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, the events of which were chronicled in Larson's book.
Anyway, back to the Big Apple itself. According to Inhabitat, New York is getting closer to installing energy-efficient LED street lamps! In the coming year, 6 eco-friendly street lamps will be tested in a select area, and if proven successful, the rest of NYC's street lights will be replaced with these new energy efficient models. That's over 300,000 street lights! Cool, right?
Anyway, back to the Big Apple itself. According to Inhabitat, New York is getting closer to installing energy-efficient LED street lamps! In the coming year, 6 eco-friendly street lamps will be tested in a select area, and if proven successful, the rest of NYC's street lights will be replaced with these new energy efficient models. That's over 300,000 street lights! Cool, right?
According to Inhabitat, New York City’s Department of Transportation is working with the Office for Visual Interaction to completely re-design the street lamps. If successful, these new street lamps could reduce the city's power usage by 25 to 30 percent! Additionally, since the lamps are using super efficient LEDs, the bulbs will last a lot longer - from 50,000-70,000 hours compared to the existing high-pressure sodium lights that last only 24,000 hours. Let's hope this idea takes off! Lights out until next time! - Via Just Cool Design / Via Inhabitat
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1 comment:
Needs to be solar powered, self activated by low light conditions, and why do lights in our pedestrian dominated city only face the street? It should also illuminate the sidewalks as well. Unless this light can bleed enough light into the sidewalk. The sidewalk should be as bright as the street.
Also in parks it should be motion activated with 360 degree coverage.
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