Re: *** SPAM ***[Nature Recordists] Re: An interactive Google map of

["John Burchard" tepegawra]

Peter Shute  [naturerecordists] wrote:

> On 18 Jun 2014, at 12:59 pm, "'John Burchard'
> <> [naturerecordists]"
> <<>>
> wrote:
>
>
> .... would have to walk for miles to get away from "too much" light.
> We are
> surrounded with solar farms ... each of which blazes megawatts into
> the night
> sky, all night every night. Nobody knows really what that is doing to
>
> Why do solar farms "blaze megawatts" into the night sky?  Are they
> brightly lit?

Surprisingly so.  Not over the whole area, but they have a lot of "security 
lights" (orange at dusk, I suppose they are sodium vapor) that you can see from 
miles away.

I'll try to take some photos and post them on a Web site.

John
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Tepe Gawra Salukis

http://saluqi.home.netcom.com/ 


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