“The lightship of the West”, leads El Periódico, reporting on a study by the University Complutense of Madrid that reveals that “the cities of Spain are leading [Europe] in expenditures on public lighting.” Spaniards are the Europeans who “waste” the most lighting, at 118 kilowatt hours per year per capita, against the 90 kilowatt hours of the French or the 48 kilowatt hours of the Germans. The daily seesthe crisis as an opportunity to change the public lighting system of Spain, the country with “the highest level of light pollution” in Europe.
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