This might be a silly question but why don’t we have LED lights that have the orange/yellow hue to them? The blue is awful.
NITESH
@Nitesh805181
Jan 26
these sodium street lights giving me pure nostalgia

Jan 27, 2026 · 4:50 AM UTC

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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Blue-white harsh lights burn my eyes 🥲
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Blue lighting keeps you awake which is what you want when driving.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
🙋‍♀️optical engineer of illumination here -- the big draw to white LEDs is that they're super efficient at converting electric power to light. But the more you drop it down to orangey-er color temperatures, the more you kick your efficiency in the nuts, so it defeats the purpose.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Cause streetlights are for safety not vibes
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
We use white light because it provides better visibility. It's not for vibes, it's to make everyone safer.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Ask this guy
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
cool/blue lights keep you awake and alert while orange ones are relaxing to the eyes and help you sleep i personally think they should be warm/orange in neighborhoods and apartment complexes and cool/bright on highways and major roads
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Sodium lights for residential areas and led for major roads.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
The point of street lights are to help you see. The orange lights are garbage and as someone with astigmatism im fucking glad they are gone.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Screw that orange crap, mercury vapor green is where it's at!
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
I hate it too. Look at this beautiful orange light. Imagine they were cold blue/white, hideous....
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
blue light keeps you awake and alert. lights that warm of an orange, like a sunset, are calming. sedative. lull you to sleep. you want drivers awake and alert more than you want them half-asleep thinking the lighting is pretty.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Sodium lights are vibey but aren’t bright enough to deter crime and make people look jaundiced and sickly, which combine to hurt foot traffic and local biz. Feels solvable with LEDs
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
The orange ones look super dim to me and I have a harder time seeing
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
one of the major efficiency advantages of LED lights is that it doesn’t have to emit light over a large portion of the spectrum like incandescent there are bulbs with different phosphors or multi channel LEDs, but they cost more negating the main advantage over incandescent
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
They want to fuck w your frequency
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
The point is for you to be demoralized
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The orange color lacks the demoralising effect.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Technology Connections on youtube has like 600 videos talking about this specific issue
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
the blue/white isn't as aesthetically pleasing but it makes actually seeing very possible and clear🤷🏻‍♀️
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
It's the flickering rate. It's not the color. The heated element doesn't flicker. LED does. You can't see it with your eyes but your brain registers it and blue light messes with your circadian rhythm
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Blue light makes it easier to feel like Ryan Gosling bleeding out on a bench at the park tho

ALT Gosling Sad Ryan Gosling GIF
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Those warm lights used to give different kind of vibe. Honestly bro.. Whenever I see these lights it remind me of my childhood memories.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
The glare of bright white LED's can actually be worse for visual acuity.
Malachi O'Neill
@MalachiONeill
Jan 25
Debilitating glare from too bright of lights is an actual thing, not just modern woosy-ness. The LED headlights are terrible. Grok:"disability glare (or sometimes just glare in contexts like vision impairment). This happens because the intense light scatters within the eye (creating veiling luminance or a "veil" of light across the retina), which reduces contrast and washes out the visibility of darker or less intense objects in the visual field. It's not just discomfort; it actually impairs or "disables" normal vision temporarily."
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Europe has yellow hue light
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Is this a litecoin post?
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Both are awful. Middle ground please.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
They certainly do make them.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Let’s connect ✅ Let’s engage ✅ Let’s support ✅
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Alien mind control... duhhh!
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Finally people are waking up 😑
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Becase led's produce light through a drop in charge carriers across a bandgap, and not through black body radiation. You can kind of make something approximating white light via an LED + phosphor coating, but it is not the same. You asked.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
To keep people awake. Blue does that, but looks awful
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
Using whiter LEDs also has a greater negative effect on nocturnal ecosystems. Even in diurnal species, blue light at night negatively affects melatonin production. Biologically, humans have evolved to function with warmer hues at night (like from a fire). White is unnatural.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
What sucks about these LEDs is that they fail in bad ways, so delamination causing the lights to be purplish. Totally rubbish. Bring back the sodium lamps.
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Replying to @AlexanderGlista
IMO It's a lack of foresight. Warmer color temperatures are actually better for the eyes at night. I'd love to go back to that. The bottom picture isn't white balanced either. The sky and everything else in the photo wouldn't look orange just because the lights are.
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