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Letter: Light our streets with shades of red, please

Published 2 November 2022

From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK

I was interested in the research suggesting that European streetlights are becoming more blue, with all the implications for sleep that this has(24 September, p 20).

Perhaps when replacing inefficient sodium street lamps with new LEDs, we should be using red ones instead of the RGB LEDs that produce this blue-tinged light? They are cheaper to manufacture anyway.

Issue no. 3411 published 5 November 2022

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