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Blue glowing 'starpath' could be the future of street lighting | |
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| Brussel Sprout
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 40317302 United States10/21/2013 09:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) |
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| .Kaos
User ID: 26023321 United States10/21/2013 09:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Production of melatonin by the pineal gland is inhibited by light to the retina and permitted by darkness. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47755409 This can only be bad news. Yep, I can already tell I'll be one of the first people spacing out on the "Glowing highway to the moon" Possibility is the nature of God, and impossibility is the limitation of man. |
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| deanoZXT
User ID: 1287631 United States10/21/2013 09:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | High pressure sodium and sodium vapor lamps are very bad for so many reasons. That damn hum you hear is the cities. Also, they suck for seeing things. Ever notice at night, you can't tell if a car is black, blue, silver or brown? It's those damn sodium vapor lamps. All though when you hear that hum up on the power pole, it might just be a bum starter. I notice when I walk at night, not every pole with a street light hums. -Everything's more awesome when you lean into it. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 45292497 United States10/21/2013 09:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A UK council has unveiled what could become the future of street lighting - a road surface which glows in the dark. Quoting: Tess2012 Cambridge City Council has covered an historic city pathway with ultraviolet particles which turn blue when the sun sets, in what could be the future of street lighting. The technology, called 'Starpath', absorbs light during the day before emitting the artificial glow in the evening. Luminous particles are spread on a standard path before being sprayed with a protective film to maintain their glow. It is believed the firm could even adopt different colours in order to create a cycle lane when darkness sets in. It is thought the technology could one day replace streetlamps as a cheaper and more energy efficient form of lighting. It is currently being trialed at Christ's Pieces in Cambridge and now the council have revealed they could adopt the path elsewhere in the city. [link to www.telegraph.co.uk] that is awesome. i am getting a huge fucking hard dick thinking about the future right now. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35275748 United Kingdom10/21/2013 09:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does that mean I can have one of these [link to youtu.be] |
| Paved In Chaos
User ID: 47276473 United States10/21/2013 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40317302 Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) Not really.. I played mariocart to much. I'm sick of rainbow road. |
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User ID: 11009257 United States10/21/2013 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40317302 Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) Once upon a time the lines in the road were a lot more reflective. At least some road markings used to be reflective. And I'm not talking about either Botts Dots or other raised markers, where they would just get ripped off with the first pass of a snowplow. I'm talking reflective paint. I remember riding with my dad back in Florida during the seventies. That paint sure did shine in the night and in rain also. I bet that crap was super toxic and expensive. Today's paint is useless in the rain. |
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| deanoZXT
User ID: 1287631 United States10/21/2013 10:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40317302 Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) Once upon a time the lines in the road were a lot more reflective. At least some road markings used to be reflective. And I'm not talking about either Botts Dots or other raised markers, where they would just get ripped off with the first pass of a snowplow. I'm talking reflective paint. I remember riding with my dad back in Florida during the seventies. That paint sure did shine in the night and in rain also. I bet that crap was super toxic and expensive. Today's paint is useless in the rain. Life long Pacific Northwest resident. I didn't even think about the paint strips until now, that you mention it. You can't see shit in the dark of night and pouring rain. Or even if it's foggy. Even if the lines are fairly newly painted. I also remember in the 80's and 90's the paint being so reflective it was almost too bright. What was the toxic junky they used to use??? -Everything's more awesome when you lean into it. |
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| Kybeam User ID: 38631202 United States10/21/2013 10:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40317302 Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) Once upon a time the lines in the road were a lot more reflective. At least some road markings used to be reflective. And I'm not talking about either Botts Dots or other raised markers, where they would just get ripped off with the first pass of a snowplow. I'm talking reflective paint. I remember riding with my dad back in Florida during the seventies. That paint sure did shine in the night and in rain also. I bet that crap was super toxic and expensive. Today's paint is useless in the rain. Life long Pacific Northwest resident. I didn't even think about the paint strips until now, that you mention it. You can't see shit in the dark of night and pouring rain. Or even if it's foggy. Even if the lines are fairly newly painted. I also remember in the 80's and 90's the paint being so reflective it was almost too bright. What was the toxic junky they used to use??? The super reflextive paints contained leaded pigments. They were eliminated in the late 1980's. |
| deanoZXT
User ID: 1287631 United States10/21/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to make each travel lane (not just the bike lanes) a different color. The paint they use for the stripes is not reflective enough when it is raining at night, and sometimes is just impossible to see, esp if it's old. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40317302 Of course, for large highways with 3 or more lanes on each side, it's gonna end up looking like a glowing rainbow. Wont that be cool as hell looking :) Once upon a time the lines in the road were a lot more reflective. At least some road markings used to be reflective. And I'm not talking about either Botts Dots or other raised markers, where they would just get ripped off with the first pass of a snowplow. I'm talking reflective paint. I remember riding with my dad back in Florida during the seventies. That paint sure did shine in the night and in rain also. I bet that crap was super toxic and expensive. Today's paint is useless in the rain. Life long Pacific Northwest resident. I didn't even think about the paint strips until now, that you mention it. You can't see shit in the dark of night and pouring rain. Or even if it's foggy. Even if the lines are fairly newly painted. I also remember in the 80's and 90's the paint being so reflective it was almost too bright. What was the toxic junky they used to use??? The super reflextive paints contained leaded pigments. They were eliminated in the late 1980's. thank you for that info. But I swear I remembered the super reflected paints until the mid 90's. Maybe just leftover stock. -Everything's more awesome when you lean into it. |
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| Soma/Comatose
User ID: 32963937 United States10/22/2013 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's pretty cool. I read somewhere a few months ago that there are now trees that glow in the dark and could be used for street lighting as well.  ''Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.'' —President George W. Bush, Sept. 6, 2004 |
