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It's LEDs to Fight Global Warming!
Techtree News Staff, May 13, 2007 1513 hrs ISTLawmakers in different parts of the world are gunning for the incandescent bulb because of its alleged contribution to global warming.
Global warming has claimed its first victim, the seemingly innocuous light bulb...
According to an Associated Press (AP) report, lawmakers in different parts of the world are gunning for the incandescent bulb because of its alleged contribution to global warming, looking instead at light-emitting diodes or LEDs as possible substitute.
With Canada and California having decided to ban sale of incandescent bulbs by 2012, and Australia by 2010. The European Union looking at altogether banning production, while a US Senate Committee working on a proposal to phase out bulbs in the next decade or so...
Not even New Jersey, home to the light bulb's inventor, late Thomas Edison, is spared by this angry tide... A bill to ban the use of light bulbs in government buildings has been introduced.
All of which means that while LEDs have been around for a couple of decades, its only now that people are waking up to their 'other significant' uses.
The US Department of Energy says nearly 22 percent of electricity produced in the country is consumed by lighting. Encouraging widespread use of LED lighting could cut the consumption to half, so much so that it would result in energy savings the equivalent of about 500 million barrels of oil by 2027. In turn which would translate into that much reduction in emissions of Carbon Dioxide, the gas deemed responsible for the big evil named global warming.
It's not as if the same degree of energy savings cannot be attained with the incandescent bulb's current aberration, the compact fluorescent.
However, LEDs are known for certain advantages vis-a-vis compact fluorescents that include: greater energy efficiency, and better brightness among others. Also manufacturers' claim that LEDs can last up to 50,000 hours, as compared to about 10,000 hours for fluorescents, and 1,000 hours for incandescents is the added big draw.
All said, it might just be a matter of time before lighting's next big thing is unleashed upon us... And, Edison too, might approve!
According to an Associated Press (AP) report, lawmakers in different parts of the world are gunning for the incandescent bulb because of its alleged contribution to global warming, looking instead at light-emitting diodes or LEDs as possible substitute.
With Canada and California having decided to ban sale of incandescent bulbs by 2012, and Australia by 2010. The European Union looking at altogether banning production, while a US Senate Committee working on a proposal to phase out bulbs in the next decade or so...
Not even New Jersey, home to the light bulb's inventor, late Thomas Edison, is spared by this angry tide... A bill to ban the use of light bulbs in government buildings has been introduced.
All of which means that while LEDs have been around for a couple of decades, its only now that people are waking up to their 'other significant' uses.
The US Department of Energy says nearly 22 percent of electricity produced in the country is consumed by lighting. Encouraging widespread use of LED lighting could cut the consumption to half, so much so that it would result in energy savings the equivalent of about 500 million barrels of oil by 2027. In turn which would translate into that much reduction in emissions of Carbon Dioxide, the gas deemed responsible for the big evil named global warming.
It's not as if the same degree of energy savings cannot be attained with the incandescent bulb's current aberration, the compact fluorescent.
However, LEDs are known for certain advantages vis-a-vis compact fluorescents that include: greater energy efficiency, and better brightness among others. Also manufacturers' claim that LEDs can last up to 50,000 hours, as compared to about 10,000 hours for fluorescents, and 1,000 hours for incandescents is the added big draw.
All said, it might just be a matter of time before lighting's next big thing is unleashed upon us... And, Edison too, might approve!
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