This is why I resent the laws banning incandescent lights. I consider myself an environmentalist, and am very careful about wasting electricity. I love the warm dim light from an incandescent and think it helps me fall asleep... the light from one incandescent dimmed to about 20-40W is all I need after sunset, and all I want. It's like sitting near a campfire. My house is solar powered, and I keep a window open without even heat even in the winter - my utility bills are negative from my solar array.
Yet it is "normal" to create massive light pollution with hundreds of watts of LEDs, heating and lighting an entire house including unoccupied rooms, and nearly everybody has LED lights on the front porch and backyard that they leave on all night long. Pisses me off that lighting and electricity are so cheap that people have no regard for it, and yet my minuscule usage is nowadays categorically illegal /rant
Yet it is "normal" to create massive light pollution with hundreds of watts of LEDs, heating and lighting an entire house including unoccupied rooms, and nearly everybody has LED lights on the front porch and backyard that they leave on all night long. Pisses me off that lighting and electricity are so cheap that people have no regard for it, and yet my minuscule usage is nowadays categorically illegal /rant