Houston Energy

[flyingman]

So I started thinking about replacing lighting around the house with LED lighting, and my many thought processes eventually led to the replacement of city street lamps into LED lamps. I looked, and they do exist! Here's a website I ran into from England

www.constellationlighting.com

Among the obvious efficient energy consumtion positives, it claims something like this would significantly reduce light pollution, allowing us to see the stars for once! - I guessed that would be an interesting added plus.

I started thinking, wouldn't it be awesome for my neighborhood to do this and show the city as an example? How do I go about doing this? Who do I need to contact and how, about urging the city to do such a thing?

Here's something from LAX airport now using LED technology for their pylons:

"...the LED-based system is expected to cut energy consumption by 75%, reduce annual electricity costs from $73,000 to $18,000, and cut annual maintenance costs from $1 million to $20,000

[musicman]

currently prices are a fairly significant increase over conventional lighting. i know federal facilities have been replacing lights so as to minimize light pollution but they appear to be sodium lights still.

[MidtownCoog]

Hopefully our next mayor will work on projects like this.

How cool would it be for the world's energy capital to also be the world's most energy efficient city?

Sounds like a worthy goal to me.

Edited June 27, 2007 by MidtownCoog