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To: Neville72

> 100 percent efficiency

Errrrrr.....


3 posted on 04/19/2006 11:00:59 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: orionblamblam
Errrrrr.....

yeah yeah...
Picky picky picky...

9 posted on 04/19/2006 11:09:41 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: orionblamblam
100 percent efficiency

The only real problem is the massive amount of neutrinos generated as the entire light fixture turns into pure radiant energy, but they plan to fix that too, as soon as they scrape the outlines of the R&D researchers off the wall of the test lab...

12 posted on 04/19/2006 11:13:53 AM PDT by 50sDad (ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
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To: orionblamblam
Errrrrr.....

Caught my eye, too.... Perhaps he didn't mean that in the fully technical sense of the term, but rather a more "squeeze as many photons out of the thing as we can" sort of way?

18 posted on 04/19/2006 11:21:11 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: orionblamblam

> 100 percent efficiency

I'm sure they meant to say 110 percent efficiency. :)


27 posted on 04/19/2006 11:34:25 AM PDT by JeffersonRepublic.com (There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
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To: orionblamblam
Yea, nothing better to destroy your credibility with anyone that with much of a scientific background than to claim something is 100% efficient.

These OLEDs are extremely efficient and it's possible that they are closer to 100% efficient than they are to 99% at converting electricity into the visible spectrum. However, it you want to be credible you need to specify the efficiency with enough decimal places to the point where we can see how much less it is than 100%.

It's possible that there's more loss in efficiency in the wiring that is going to the lamp than in the conversion to visible light, but I still want to see the numbers.

29 posted on 04/19/2006 11:42:26 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: orionblamblam; Professional Engineer; null and void; lepton

Could it that they're using a different baseline for "efficiency"? We've been assuming it's "energy out/energy in", but what if it's "visible energy emission/total energy emission" instead? The latter might get you to the vicinity of the 100% figure.


63 posted on 04/19/2006 3:04:40 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi 2006 | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
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To: orionblamblam

Isn't an LED close to resistance free? Admittedly, 100% is a stretch.


73 posted on 04/19/2006 4:53:12 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Join FR Team 36120 at http://folding.stanford.edu {Protein Folding Project})
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