from Hacker News

The historical cost of artificial light

by alexwg on 7/7/15, 10:37 PM with 1 comments

  • by DrScump on 7/7/15, 11:33 PM

    The article would have been better titled, "Pricing of artificial light through history," since its scope is limited to monetary cost.

    When I saw "cost", I thought it might be about (or, at least, include a discussion of) the environmental and health effects of artificial light, such as problems with dark-sky astronomical viewing and disruption of natural sleep cycles.

    It would also have been interesting to include artificial lighting that preceded the electric grid, such as gas, spermaceti ("whale oil"), etc.