The largest city in Turkey, Istanbul, is the fifth-largest city in the world. This is the center of the cultural, historical, and economy in Turkey. The core of the Ottoman empires reminds us of the fratricide history and secularism in modern Turkey. Istanbul has an active nightlife and historic public house that has become the autograph feature of the city for centuries.
The active nightlife can not be parted from night lighting. Solar streetlight in Turkey is an outstanding project that will both present beauty and effectiveness. Yet, lighting for the life of the city and light polluting are two contrary things that are faced by the Turkish—always modernizing the side effects that may threaten the environment. Can they find a win-win solution? Let see from both sides.
The latest Istanbul Light Project, held in 2020, had a goal to make this big city become the core of giant digital art. Istanbul has some potential to lead the world in fields like economy, commerce, technology, theology, culture, and arts. Through these fields, we will see how valuable this city is.
Istanbul is where light art and digital art are presented beautifully as part of city life. Despite the ups and downs during the pandemic, Istanbul is an active city out of the few ones in the world. Art has positive dan important impacts on all walks of life.
There are abundantly qualified lighting companies in Turkey that have a big contribution to the city lighting crowd. SDD Light, as one of the new leading companies from Hongkong, will take part in the competition to reveal the best solar streetlight in Turkey. SDD Light has many international certifications that will be the guarantee of its competitive factor among other lighting companies in Turkey.
We are internationally certified and will present as well as other lighting companies in Turkey.
An association of Turkish astronomers has raised the issue of light pollution across the country, urging new legislation to ban or limit lighting around observatories.
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Kucuk, the head of the Turkish Astronomical Society, said that if light pollution is not prevented, Turkey will become incapable of observing the gnome stars and competing with other countries. The observatories are under threat; this astronomical society wanted the legislation to be introduced as soon as possible.
The construction of the lighting works on any building in about 50 kilometers radius should have permission and supervision from the relevant observatory. TUG (Tubitak National Observatory) in the Mediterranean province of Antalya is located at an altitude of 2,500 meters on top of Mount Bakirlitepe.
Turkish Healthy Cities Association found that more than $50 M was spent on unuseful lighting. It included the unused area and excessive lighting. For the province of Bursa only, about 21 M has been spent on lighting. Some other researchers noticed, more than 90% of the Turkish were light-polluted, and more than half of them couldn’t see the stars at night.
Some living beings need to establish their biological mechanisms at night. Less light or even dark will help to succeed in the process. As the light intrudes it, the melatonin release may diminish and tend to stop producing. Melatonin is an important hormone that creates protection against cancer. Mainly for night-shift working women, a study found the risk of having breast cancer due to night lighting.
Energy waste is an issue that goes together with environmental concerns. Solar streetlight in Turkey can be an option. But it must set some surveys and deep research before launching the project.
Solar streetlight in Turkey provides solar-powered LED streetlights in low energy consumption. The lighting starts automatically and is designed for the whole night lighting operations. It has a predictable lifetime. As the luminous output decreases slowly, it becomes a sign of recharging time.
To reach for both interests, we are for the commercial that leads to the country’s economic stability, and for astronomy that leads to the competitiveness of Turkey’s science, solar-powered lighting presents as an option. It needs to be accompanied by night lighting borderline and some important legislation on observatories. We hope it can reduce the excessive lighting at night that may waste the available energy. Hence, it can also contribute to more development in the field of astronomical science.
