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A LEADING football club has included a requirement that its lighting upgrade must be friendly to the local moth population. The LED sources at the training grounds of the Red Bull Football Academy in Salzburg, Austria are believed to be the first to be compliant to the Association for the Protection of the Environment’s recommendations for minimising disruption to moths. These include a reduction in blue, which is known to attack moths, with a limit on the colour temperature of 3000K. It’s believed is that the reason moths are drawn to luminaires is that they use the moon and the...

Eye of the Storm is a winter saga in Iceland. In Iceland there are many kinds of storms. Ice, snow, rain, sand, ash, solar, magnetic, and more.Storms are agents of change. While often destructive and unpredictable, they also demonstrate the unyielding power of nature. They reveal nature's beauty and its hand in creating the landscapes we see today.Shot in Iceland between February and March, 2014, I was lucky enough to witness and film the power of an X-class solar flare and coronal mass ejection hitting our atmosphere. The resulting auroras were a sight hard to believe, even in person and...

Types of Light Bulbs, Light bulb bases and Light bulb sizes https://www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-light-bulbs

The chart below, published by espares (a UK company) on 31/10/2014, compares lamps of differing types (incandescent, halogen, CFL, LED) and suggests annual savings that could be made by using LED lights. https://www.espares.co.uk

Choosing the Right Color:Light color is measured on a temperature scale referred to as Kelvin (K).Lower Kelvin numbers mean the light appears more yellow; higher Kelvin numbers mean the light is whiter or bluer. From top left to bottom right: ultra warm, warm, natural, and cool white lighthttps://www.superbrightleds.com