The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?

You can support this channel on Patreon! Link below Ever wonder why street lights are orange? For such a fast-paced world technology-wise, it seems somewhat odd that we are still using such a strange color of light for outdoor lighting. Well it turns out it is still a pretty good light source, though with limited use and perhaps a not-so-obvious flaw. Link to Part 2: The video from The Engineer Guy: Some various links: The Wikipedia Article on Discharge Lamps: An interesting source about lighting in general: #hps Spectral sensitivity of the eye (this is a bit of a spoiler for the next video, so open with care): Technology Connections on Twitter: You can support this channel on Patreon! Patrons of the channel are what keep these videos coming. If you’re interested in supporting the channel, too, please check out my Patreon page. Thanks for your consideration! And thank you to the following Patrons! Charlie Quigley, Dakota Williams, Adam Erickson, Kevin Terrell, Tommi Hares, Trevor Smith, Thomas Fuchs, Callum Brieske, Tomas, Chuck Floyd, Eitan Tal, Emil Gilliam, Andy Copsey, Bitcore, Filip, Per ’Zapro’ Jensen, Ward Sutherland, Örn Arnarson, Alberto Amatucci, etho624, Chris Giddings, Tomasz Kolinko, Carles Codony, Samuel Plainfield, Jason McMillon, TeaChest Media, Michael Pacheco, Jason Ganiatsas, Mike Gerow, Marc Schroth, Andrew J Thom, Samuel Blakey, Mrpirate707, Frank Harris, Joseph Spiros, Patrick Meister, Sergey Kiselev, Clara Latter, Ashley Grant, Scott Emmett O’Donnell, Tianyu Ge, jeekl, rozboris, Kelly Rose, Paul Fisher, Stephen Vrazel, Applied Science, Peter ford, Sophie Haskins, James Id, Brendan Sheehy, Jay Foreman, Rich Theobald, Kyle Olson, Bryan Reid, Quinton Wilson, Jeremy DeGuzman, Sean Spark, Lucas Hartbarger, Taylor Cuzela, David Lastres, Granger Meador, Jeremy Kitchen, Jason Wellband, Shane Belaire, Paul Emmerich, Matthew Rossi, Paul Craigie, Alex Smith, Nick, Tyler, Paul Williams, Steven Hidy, Fredrik Grufman, Kollin O’Dannel, RJ Kent, Yona, Kevin Strehl, Tony DeSimone, Mike Bailey, Maggie Brown, Howard Kraut, TM, Mark Nicholas Wales, Jason D., T.J. Steckbeck, Pavlo Pravdiukov, Tobias Faller, Marco Anastasi, Peter Byrd, Trix Farrar, Matthew Razza, Mitchel J. Mullin II, Jakob Strande Langgaard, Jan Staval, Paul Walton, Matt Falcon, Steven First, Denver Alexander, Conor Hennessy Sykes, FinaleGrande, Christopher Dickey, OnlyOneSolutionTBHFam, Matt Sackett, Tim Juchcinski, Wayne Marsh, Ernie Smith, foophoof, Stein Strindhaug, Hank Eskin, Brady Brown, Giacomo Scaparrotti, Winfield Trail, Luke Biddle, Marc Ethier, Joseph Hill, John Semander, Bill Basch, Robert Toth, Magnus Tranum, blouerat, PK, Richard Lindsey, Lars JJ, Patrick Musson, Matt Taylor, Johan Schoeman, Thomas Jew, Josef Citrine, Marcus Schwartz, Ryan Cozzubbo, Christopher Bassett, Julian Rapoport, Ed Hall, Jason Portwood, Jesse Cardone, Michael Snowden, Drew McClain, Boh00711, Jon-André Haraldstad, The8TrackKid, Daniel J Schless, Sebi Jecklin, Casey Kikendall, Craig Leverenz, Charlie Hankin, Andres Plaza, Revenge, Matthew Baron, André, Gerald Monaco, Tab Patterson, Jason Weathered, foy, Roger Beal, Gantradies, Chris Hartl, Steve Stone, Brian G. Shacklett, Colton Aubrey Hooke, Paul Mills, Christopher Luna, Kotanu, Brendan Terrett, Techmoan, Mike Mason, Elijah Reeds, Christopher Jett, Justin Talbot, Steven Metcalf, Verysofisticated, Lolucoca, John McLusky, Ashleigh R, Stephen Bell, Logan Beenken, Eric Wood, Stephen Pick, BlancoGrande, Matthew Giraitis, James Ryan, Robert Joscelyne, Ellis M. Eisen, Francis Fisher, Kedar Deshpande, Lukas Komischke, Dave Anderson, Felix Freiberger, Dane Peterson, Brent LaRowe, Aerospyke, Kieran Cox, Hunter Schwisow, Logan Kriete, Rafał Wiosna, Adam D. Ruppe, Audin Malmin, Eric Hansen, Noah McCann, Jason R Scheuren, Rufo Sanchez, The War Academy, Yaniv, neko, Daniel Ch, Lee Wallbank, Grayson Lang, Neil Bronner, Carl Yazbek, Jeffrey Grajkowski, Christopher Splinter, Eric Merrill, Stefan Berndtsson, Michael Sims, Seth Kneller, Clint Eisinger, Jesse G. Donat, Christopher Leidich, Mike Friedman, Svante, André Waage Sørensen, Ed McCloskey, Philip Daniel, Jasper Thun, Camilo Rodrigues, Dusan Dzelebdzic, Sam Douglas, Sam Redfern, MagicMatteo, Sen, mark barratt, Tully, Violet Moon, Duncan Ward