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Azania Jarvis published: EDT 20: 45 on April 21, 2014 | update: EDT 06: 38 on April 22, 2014, when Andy Richards saw a dazzling glow on the bedroom window, his first thought was an alien
It's like a three-man day, he said.
"Bright White bright light.
He opened the curtain and realized that the source was more common.
It comes from a street lamp outside two people.
He lives with his wife Kate in a bedroom in Chiswick, west London.
The couple did not know that the hornslow Council had LED lights installed
Follow their quiet residential road and walk on street lights.
The soft golden light of the old light has been replaced by a harsh beam of light, which they say makes them unable to fall asleep.
The couple became so desperate that they tied a large piece of black cardboard to the window.
Andy, 61, said it was like a blackout in World War II. year-
An old record producer who lived on the street for 25 years.
This is the only thing we can do.
We haven't slept for three weeks.
The Commission claims that LED lights are chosen because they use less energy and are therefore cheaper and more eco-friendly than traditional sodium bulbs.
A few weeks after Andy was entangled
At two o'clock A. M. he started sending messages to local MP Colin Eller, a supporter of the new system so he knew what it was like not to sleep
The council has agreed to dim the lights during a trial period.
However, despite protests by the Richards couple and their neighbors, Parliament will not reconsider plans to replace nearly 16,000 lights throughout the autonomous city.
Hounslow is not the only council to embrace LED street lights.
Across the UK, local government demand for new "energy-efficient" lighting has declined.
The Bury Council in Manchester has announced plans to replace 11,000 street lights on the 1,850 side
The road to the whole autonomous city by 2017.
Similar plans are underway in Blackburn, Nottingham and Lancashire, as well as in parts of Birmingham, Sheffield, Gloucester and Glasgow.
See the picturesque Norfolk faakenham town from a brand new perspectiveliterally —
Thanks to 30 LED lights in the city center.
Fans of LED lamps that first appeared on the British streets in 2011 pointed out the environmental and economic advantages they provided.
When the current shines through the lithium gas, the traditional sodium street light will light up, while the light powered by the led-light-
LEDs-
Glow when current passes through solid materials such as semiconductors.
They use 60 cents less energy than sodium lamps, which are said to be eight times longer in life, reducing maintenance costs and reducing electricity costs by half.
They are also easy to operate.
The Led produces light immediately when it is turned on, instead of taking the time to heat, and can be controlled remotely via a digital sensor.
Some even claim their bright floodlights.
Beams can deter criminals.
However, no matter where the LED lights are installed, the residents are stunned.
In llandoough, Wales, the locals organized a petition to remove their recently installed LED street lights and replace them with the original.
Last year, the Bath Council was forced to temporarily stop replacing the city's street lights with LEDs and held a public consultation, so complaints came after the initial 2,000 lights were erected.
At Trafford in Manchester, residents have threatened to bring Parliament to court if Parliament continues to plan to replace all of its 27,000 street lights.
But why is the opposition so strong?
If, as promised by the hornslow Council, the lights can be darkened if necessary --
If they use less energy, save money and reduce crime
What's wrong with the new system?
Quite a few facts have proved.
Because the British Parliament seems eager to embrace the new "green" technology, ignoring several serious health problems.
Studies have shown that LED lights disrupt sleep by inhibiting the production of melatonin, a hormone that controls our sleep patterns.
All the Light is made up of different combinations of colors, the visible light falls on the rainbow
The spectrum extends from red to blue.
Natural light combines all the colors of the spectrum, but the vast majority of the light emitted by the LEDs is blue.
Too much blue light can inhibit our biological clock and cause it to drop. quality sleep.
This in turn increases the likelihood of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
It can damage the immune system and make patients prone to depression and anxiety.
Some people even think that too much exposure to led lights can lead to blindness.
Last year, a study in Spain showed that light from LED bulbs could damage retina cells.
To illustrate how intense their glare is, considering that LED lights are generally prohibited by art galleries, they bleach the paint on the work on display.
Simon Nicholas, 53, says they are dangerous and potentially destructive. year-
The old Chartered Engineer, before further research, successfully launched the campaign to stop the installation of LED lights in Trafford.
Local councils accepted the technology without considering health issues.
All they care about is the bottom line.
"Of course, no one investigated the health impact of these lights before hicwick installed them.
In fact, MP Colin Ehler claimed that he was not aware of the dangers widely reported until a few days ago.
Meanwhile, new members
Enthusiasm for LED bulbs is questioning how much taxpayer money they will eventually save.
Roderick Binns, 65, who lives not far from Andy and Kate, said his parliamentary bill had increased.
He said it felt as if there were no signs of price cuts.
In fact, the initial cost of installing LED lights is very high.
It costs £ 9 to replace the lights at Trafford. 3u2009million.
While in some cases the bulb can be installed on a post that is already in place, in others, the installation of the LED requires the removal and replacement of the entire light holder, approximately £ 500 per unit.
The Essex County Council was recently forced to stop plans to replace the light fixtures as it was reported that the work would cost an astonishing £ 31 m.
Even if the lights can save energy, it can take up to 20 years for the installation cost to be recovered.
Simon Nicholas, who opposes the lighting movement at Trafford, said: "If you save energy at home, will you buy a new 500 unit or put a lowwatt bulb in?
Why can't they do that?
Roderick Binns, a property consultant, said residents of Chiswick could actually lose money because ugly lights could affect the value of their homes.
For those who are in front of the light, he says, they are negative, not positive.
More importantly, it contradicts the statement that bright led lights will reduce crime, and some say that lights may actually increase anti-social behavior.
Research on the impact of lighting on crime has produced complex results.
LED lights tend to focus the light in a specific position rather than spreading the light evenly as their predecessors did.
As a result, they left streets and sidewalks with almost no lights at all.
And could be vulnerable to criminal attacks.
Les Godwin, MP for Chesire Prestbury, said it made no sense and he opposed the introduction of led in his neighborhood.
If you have a well
It's not good that you turn it into an area with dark parts.
Member Ellar admitted that in addition to receiving complaints about the brightness of the lights, the residents also told him that the coverage of the place where they lived was very incomplete, and now the lights on the street are too dark.
Most importantly, what seems to irritate people is that, like many other modern innovations, LED lights are an ugly and potentially harmful stain on the city landscape.
'Color rendering is too bad, 'says Roderick Binns.
A street lamp usually gives a soft light, but it is a dazzling white light. It’s very off-putting.
"In Manchester, the lights are nicknamed 'UFO light' because of the inhospitable glare '.
Considering that some of the British lampposts can be traced back to the 19 th century, it is a rather painful loss for local historians to dismantle the lampposts in large quantities.
As Simon Nicholas said: "You will not tear down the historical statue. It’s vandalism.
This is the central government.
No one is paying attention at the moment and no one is stopping this. It’s worrying.
Until then, it will depend on the family identified --
The owner likes him to protect their streets from the intrusion of UFO lights.