Re:Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proli...
by lupire on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:52PM
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point sources are more intense than diffuse sources.
Re:Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proli...
by quesera on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:09PM
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The moon is effectively a point source of light.
Of course it's neither a point nor a source, but in the night sky it acts like one.
In dark locations, the moon can be bright enough to cast shadows indoors.
That sounds like a measurable decrease in quality, but to be fair you're starting from a highly unusual baseline.
And I don't mean to be uncharitable, but when it comes to sleep effects (reported by others, apparently), I suspect that the light emitted from tower-mounted aircraft lights at a distance of five miles has a greater effect on their psychological perception than on their photon receptors.
The light "pollution" of a full moon is surely larger than the tower lamps. And more variable over the night (the moon moves, towers do not).