The era of LEDs for general-purpose lighting really began last decade, but the technology has been around since the 1960s.

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That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.

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