Posts Tagged ‘winter’

LEDs Too Cold To Melt Snow

Posted on: December 20, 2009

Hurr hurr.
They didn’t think this one through did they.
All across the US, traffic lights have been upgraded to use LEDs. These bulbs save energy and last longer, and presumably count towards some carbon trading quotas.
However, when it snows, they don’t work!
Britain, under encouragement from ‘environmental’ groups seems to be following suit.

Around 57,000 tonnes of carbon [...]

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