Without metal halide...

and commercial lighting, the world would be a much darker place! Imagine no street lamps, no stop lights, no metal halide lights to light up the diamond during your slo-pitch softball game.

All that being said, commercial lighting is pretty important.

Learning new things... about metal halide vapor!

Today I learned how metal halide lights work.

Did you know that they use an arc light that's passed through a metal halide vapor to produce their light?

Surprisingly enough, metal halide lamps were the heir to the throne of mercury vapor. How dangerous is that!?!

Lucky, MH will do the trick without being incredibly dangerous.

Gasp! metal halide gas!

Have you ever heard of photokeratisis? It's a form of temporary blindness (sometimes called snow blindness) and it can be caused by looking into the bulbs of your metal halide grow light systems! so... exercise caution when gardening!