I think that this should mandatory in neighborhoods where hurtling down the road at over, say, (let me pull a number outta my butt,) 40 isn’t likely to take place. And it would mitigate the problem of people not being able to fall asleep at night because of a street light right outside their window (!!).

I think that most streetlights in areas over the aforementioned 40 MPH should be converted to use solar power as a way to mitigate the cost of burning them solely using ‘the grid.’ I mean, how much power does it take to power a single light overnight? On the shortest day of the year? If you double that capacity (stuffing the rechargeable batteries/capacitors/fairy dust in the light pole itself,) it should be able to mitigate quite a bit of drain on the local area’s power needs.

And while I think it will be excruciatingly expensive to replace EVERY SINGLE streetlight, I would think it should pay for itself inside of a couple of decades.

Tell me what would be wrong with that idea..