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LED lighting keeps on improving as yet another record efficacy is announced.
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A few days ago I got yet another press release about a new efficiency record with LEDLight-emitting diode. Illumination technology that produces light by running electrical current through a semiconductor diode. LED lamps are much longer lasting and much more energy efficient than incandescent lamps; unlike fluorescent lamps, LED lamps do not contain mercury and can be readily dimmed. lighting. These are almost commonplace as we ride the revolution that is redefining electric lighting.
To back up, let me provide a short synopsis of lighting technologies and history.
Incandescent lamps provided the first electric lighting, with Thomas Edison inventing the first commercially viable light bulb around 1880 (building on the inventions of many others), and the technology has changed relatively little since General Electric introduced tungsten-filament light bulbs in 1911. Electric current flows through a very thin, coiled filament made of tungsten wire and glows white-hot, producing light. With incandescent lighting, roughly 90% of the electricity is converted into heat, only 10% into light.
[1]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/Cree_XP-G2.jpg (Cree's new XLamp XP-G2 LED)
[2]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/energy-solutions/continuing-revolution-led-lighting
[3]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/CreeCS18.JPG (Cree's CS18)
URL: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/energy-solutions/continuing-revolution-led-lighting
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