1 posted on
10/22/2005 8:12:55 AM PDT by
ZGuy
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To: ZGuy
Oops. Looks like I typed the date in using the metric system again.
2 posted on
10/22/2005 8:14:19 AM PDT by
ZGuy
To: ZGuy
Do the home office types at GE's NELA Park know about this? How long before they buy somebody off?
3 posted on
10/22/2005 8:15:00 AM PDT by
kjo
To: ZGuy
"Light'em if ya' got 'em" ~ "Light'em up" ~ "Turn on the lights"
4 posted on
10/22/2005 8:16:21 AM PDT by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
To: ZGuy
Exactly what is supposed to be "new" here?? "White" LEDs (actually blue semiconductor LEDs with added phosphor) have been around for quite a while now. Is it the magic buzz-word "nano-", or perhaps "quantum dot"??
All these guys appear to have done is come up with a different formula for the phosphor mix---why is it so much better????
To: ZGuy
One big question remains: When a brilliant idea pops into your mind in the future, what will appear over your head?
7 posted on
10/22/2005 8:19:53 AM PDT by
HiJinx
(~ A saved heart is one that wants to serve ~)
To: ZGuy
Brilliant... absolutely brilliant!
13 posted on
10/22/2005 8:32:36 AM PDT by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
To: ZGuy
Hope he got the patent squared away.
-ccm
14 posted on
10/22/2005 8:33:21 AM PDT by
ccmay
(Beware the fury of a patient man.)
To: ZGuy
This is really far out there, and sounds super exciting to me. I think this is very cutting-edge type stuff, and will be a commercial success shortly. What a neat discovery!
16 posted on
10/22/2005 8:38:11 AM PDT by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: ZGuy
I was reading where quantum dots could be powered by the human body....tapping into the electrical charge we all have.
No more turning on the lights at night to go to the bathroom...put those things at the end of your johnson and just go baby go!!!!!....talk about the Illuminate.......
18 posted on
10/22/2005 8:43:55 AM PDT by
Radioactive
(I'm on the radio..so I'm radioactive)
To: ZGuy
I've got LED lights in my house.
They were mad expensive but I feel it was worth it. I don't mind taking the hit for being an early adopter.
The only place I've got regular bulbs is two on the outside(front and side of the house) and one in the fridge.
http://www.superbrightleds.com is where I got them from.
19 posted on
10/22/2005 8:51:42 AM PDT by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(You upgraded to Linux? No, I'm not surprised your computer works properly now. Amazing, no?)
To: ZGuy
10/21/15 So what, you are a guy from the future coming back to tell us how wonderful everything will be in 10 years? So tell us, who wins the Presidency in 2008? Are their still Democrats in 2015? :-}
23 posted on
10/22/2005 8:57:31 AM PDT by
MNJohnnie
(I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!.......Water Buckets UP!)
To: ZGuy
this is really wild - truly a leap into the future as i imagined it in my SF books i read forty years ago!
26 posted on
10/22/2005 9:05:32 AM PDT by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: ZGuy
You have to bet that Vanderbilt already has title to this patent.
28 posted on
10/22/2005 9:09:59 AM PDT by
ladyjane
To: ZGuy
To: ZGuy
The way
florescent lights work is they generate UV light internally, that gets converted to white light by the florescent coating. Seems like quantum-dot "phosphor" coating would work similarly
39 posted on
10/22/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
To: ZGuy
Nikola Tesla would not be impressed.
41 posted on
10/22/2005 10:16:03 AM PDT by
The Duke
To: ZGuy
Cool! What a bright idea.
42 posted on
10/22/2005 10:17:53 AM PDT by
shezza
To: ZGuy; All
What you idiots fail to see here is not the creation of a new source of light, but the evolution of jokery aka humour.
Example. "How many pollacks does it take to got ( screw in light bulb) stir quantum dots into polyurethane and coat a blue LED light.
(grab slide rule pocket)HAR HAR HAR
To: ZGuy
Oh my God, then how is anyone going to know when I have an idea?
52 posted on
10/22/2005 11:01:33 AM PDT by
ShadowDancer
(Stupid people make my brain sad.)
To: ZGuy
How much power plant electricity goes to lights as opposed to other uses?
If these lights allowed us to reduce the demand for electricity for light usage by 90%, how much impact would it have?
Would it have a significiant impact on the demand for oil? the demand for natural gas?
There would be some offsetting trends, people would leave lights on more, there would be more outside lighting, etc.
54 posted on
10/22/2005 11:07:27 AM PDT by
DannyTN
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