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New Street Lights for Iowa

 
A major change is in the works for thousands of street lights across Iowa, but you'll only be able to see the difference at night. MidAmerican Energy has started converting more than 100,000 street lights to L-E-D's.
  Spokeswoman Ashton Newman says compared to the current high-pressure sodium lights, LED's use up to 50 per cent less energy, and last longer.

  Newman says once the conversion is completed, power plants will have to generate millions of kilo-watt hours LESS than they do now to power these lights. 

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Since less energy needed, helps reduce power plant CO2 emissions.

The conversion will take up to ten years, and only affect the street lights owned by MidAmerican - that includes 17-hundred in Bettendorf and 87-hundred in Davenport. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.