Today, cities in the Mont-Megantic region are using full cutoff fixtures with only 70 HPS lamps. By doing so, they have roughly regained the darkness level of ten years ago, even though the population has increased four-fold in that period. Because of this transformation, the Mont-Megantic region has been officially designated the first International Dark Reserve in the world! [...]
AUTHOR: Éric Ladouceur | CATEGORY: Technologies
October 20, 2011
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