According to an industry consulting firm, LEDs will displace all other forms of residential light sources in just six years. The conclusion from Navigant Consulting means LEDs are definitely a disruptive technology in that it will ...
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III. Bringing the Market to the Product At the same time the CFL was being developed into a marketable product, the energy efficiency industry was developing into a formidable market force. Many states had adopted legislative and ...
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This is the first in a three-part series of the behind-the-scenes story of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL). A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story of the CFL, originally featured in the October 2012 issue of Electricity Journal, is a ...
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It's lights out for the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb after new national energy-efficiency laws took effect Monday. Consumers in Beaufort County, however, may have already noticed a shortage of the particular pear-shaped bulbs ...
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In the US, much of the legislation that was written in 2007 which would make the incandescent obsolete because they do not meet the energy efficiency standards was recently overturned in December 2011. What's left is efficiency standards ...
LED light bulbs have a slight environmental edge on compact fluorescent bulbs and both trump traditional incandescent bulbs by a wide margin, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory says in a new report. PNNL, a U.S. Department of ...
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A newly released report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and UK-based N14 Energy Limited compared the environmental impact of light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs to compact fluorescent lamps. The LED ...
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LED light bulbs have a slight environmental edge on compact fluorescent bulbs and both trump traditional incandescent bulbs by a wide margin, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory says in a new report. PNNL, a U.S. Department of ...
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"The light-emitting diode lamp is a rapidly evolving technology that,while already energy efficient,will become even more so in just a few short years,"said Marc Ledbetter,who manages PNNL`s solid-state lighting testing,analysis and ...
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Nearly 75 percent of Americans use compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Light emitting diode (LED) bulbs use far less energy but can cost several times the price of CFL bulbs. So how do these bulbs stack up against each other? Many ...
Phased ban on the sale of incandescent lightbulbs is completed following EU directive to reduce energy use of lighting. Incandescent lightbulbs have been phased out in Europe from September 2009 and September 2012. After ...
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Here on the final day of our LED exploration, I get down to brass tacks: the economic and ecological arguments for switching from incandescent to LED. And beware: I use math and logic. LED Economics I get it. An incandescent bulb cost ...
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There's a three-fixture chandelier hanging in the dining area of my apartment - well, more like the kitchen-side of my long living room, but it's a cozy Manhattan abode in which many rooms serve such double duty. Anyway, the chandelier ...
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If you've ever curiously browsed for LED bulbs, you may have noticed a whole new nomenclature and jargon - none of it recognizable, none of it helping you figure out how bright the damn the bulb is. I'll explain how to decipher packaging ...
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Philips is expanding its operations with an LED manufacturing facility in the Chengdu province of China in order to serve Chinese and Western customers'faster and better'. The new site will be set up in Chengdu High-Tech Industrial ...