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EcoLEDs Announces Brightest Commercial LED Light Bulb Yet
Energy Daily ^
| May 23, 2007
| Staff Writers
Posted on 05/23/2007 10:58:33 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Eco-friendly lighting company EcoLEDs.com has launched the brightest LED light bulb ever made available to consumers in the United States. Using just 10 watts and a single LED component made in the USA, the LED light uses just 1/10th the electricity of an incandescent light bulb and reduces CO2 emissions by 9,070 pounds over its life.
The EcoLEDs 10-watt LED light is available now. Incandescent light bulbs are now being globally recognized as extremely inefficient and outdated. Australia has already banned the energy-hungry light bulbs, and California is considering a state-wide ban. In time, all modern nations will ban incandescent lights due to their extreme inefficiency: they waste 95% of the electricity they consume as excess heat.
The mainstream push is towards compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), but consumers are not being told that CFLs contain toxic mercury. There's enough mercury in a single CFL to contaminate 7,000 gallons of fresh water, and if Americans continue to purchase CFLs -- then throw them away in local landfills -- the United States will soon be facing an unprecedented burden of toxic mercury in rivers, streams, croplands and oceans.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: energy; energysaving; leds; lightbulb; lightbulbs
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To: VOA
There are still streets in City of LA that arent paved or lit.
To: Ben Mugged
The sources says it’s a clean, white light. That could mean a lot of things, unfortunately. Has anyone tried this? Is it really white, or does it turn all the colors in the room blue or green or some sickly color, like a cheap flourescent bulb?
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:26:20 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: N3WBI3
I agree the time is not here yet for total home use, but I’ve been replacing bulb flashlights with LED ones when I find them on sale. We got LED Christmas lights this year too, they look great, won’t lose their color and I noticed the difference in my electric bill.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:26:43 AM PDT
by
stevio
((NRA))
To: BurbankKarl
There are still streets in City of LA that arent paved or lit.
Of course, but seeing the area after dark and from the area is
still pretty awesome...especially for us fly-over country folks.
(yeah, I lived there 1995-2005, but am now in another place
being overrun by illegal immigrants...Mid-Missouri.
Believe it...or not!)
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:27:57 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Ben Mugged
These LED lamps make my teeth hurt. Perhaps it is the flicker, or perhaps it is the unnatural color.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:28:57 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: Ben Mugged
I think that this is far, far more viable than the florescents. If, for no other reason than the color and intesity of the light can easily be changed.
So it's expensive now....so were CFL's, 5 years ago. The price will come down. This is a technology that I can get behind.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:29:48 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: discostu
How many thieves does it take to screw out a $100 light bulb?
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:31:22 AM PDT
by
FreedomForce
(Duncan Hunter 2008)
To: N3WBI3
Also note that this EcoLED product produces clean, bright white light, not the typical yellowish light produced by incandescent bulbs. Most people agree that our white lights offer far better visibility and clarity than common yellowish light bulbs People like yellowish light for a reason. It's not perceived to be as "harsh". That said, LED lights annoying effects can be partially mitigated by being mixed with other lights.
Don't LEDs still flicker with the cycle too?
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:31:56 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Cicero
A lot of the ones I have been using are about 6000K. C Crane has one for sale that is warmer but I don’t know what its color temperature is exactly.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:32:03 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: hophead
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp Thanks. That's very helpful.
This seems like a problem to me, since I don't trust people to dispose of these bulbs properly. I assume that the majority will end up in the trash.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:33:09 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: Ben Mugged
That’s quite a heat sink. It can’t be that efficient. Plus it looks like a spot.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:33:11 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: VOA
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:33:18 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Democrats are sacrificing civilization for political power)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
but consumers are not being told that CFLs contain toxic mercury.
The ones I buy say so on the package. The newer bulbs have very little mercury anyway.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:33:44 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: stevio; HamiltonJay
LEDs get dimmmer over their lifetime, especially if they are driven hard.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:34:06 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Andonius_99
LEDs have a lifetime of over 100,000 hours and they produce significantly less heat.
With the exception of a month or so of summer, heat is a bonus in our climate.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:37:09 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: lepton
NOt that I know of, Florecents definately flicker.
To: N3WBI3
This EcoLED light has a beam angle of 100 degrees, which is equivalent to a wide spotlight. Couldn't this be remedied with some kind of reflective surface?
Also note that this EcoLED product produces clean, bright white light, not the typical yellowish light produced by incandescent bulbs.
Couldn't the light be covered with a yellow filter, for those people who want warm light?
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:37:53 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: HamiltonJay
To: P-40
Factor in what it costs to change light bulbs in some stairwells and emergency lighting units....and you dont mind paying a lot for bulbs if they last for years and draw little juice. As I said: I might consider replacing bulbs that I use a lot. But not the whole house.
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:44:40 AM PDT
by
r9etb
Found
this site selling LED household bulbs. They range in price from $15-$65, depending on the number of LEDs. There's no comparison given to ordinary bulbs. Can anyone make sense of this?
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posted on
05/23/2007 11:45:27 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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