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dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months agoYou can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.
Comment105@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You just invented cumbersome fire. Ugh ugh. No good.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And we illuminated streets with that for half a century.
Comment105@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m a caveman, I have night vision, why need pretty lamps?