As LED lighting is expected to boom, firms have been looking into adopting automated production. Nan Ya Photonics, a Taiwan-based joint venture between LED chipmaker Epistar and the Formosa Plastics Group, announced at the beginning of 2012 ...
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Canada The provincial government of Nova Scotia stated in February 2007 that it would like to move towards preventing the sale of incandescent light bulbs in the province. In April 2007, Ontario's Minister of Energy Dwight Duncan ...
Notts County Council is set to trial new LED outdoor lights in a bid to cut down on its energy bills. The trial will see the lights in four residential streets converted to LED light bulbs in the coming weeks,with the local authority ...
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The benefits of LED lighting have long been known by some,but it is only in the last few years that the majority people have started to notice the energy and monetary savings that can be made when using the illuminations. Indeed,the ...
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Epistar and Lextar Electronics, two Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers, as well as Everlight Electronics and Unity Opto Technology, two Taiwan-based providers of LED chip packaging services, saw their revenues for December ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg,Germany says that 19,500 of its Oslon SSL series LEDs have been installed in 975 lamps in the 63.1km2 Xishan Duerping coal mine in Shanxi Province(China's'home of coal').Replacing traditional ...
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Letizia Monico, a researcher at Antwerp University and Perugia University in Italy, has made in a doctoral thesis, turned out that light bulbs that emit a lot of blue light can damage paintings by art’s great masters. A few years ...
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The western side of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco is set to be fully installed with LED outdoor lights in the near future. Artist Leo Villareal is creator of The Bay Lights and it will see 25,000 LED illuminations installed on the ...
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New Year's Eve is a special time of year when everyone celebrates new beginnings and there aren't many more incredible places to be when the clock strikes 12 than New York. Times Square holds a traditional New Year's Eve party where ...
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SEATTLE — This city has a noble notion of itself at the leading edge. Its jets, coffee, computers, environmental activism and philanthropy have all been celebrated for remaking the globe. Now Seattle wants to change not just the ...
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L.E.D.: LED means light emitting diode. LEDs are a solid state device and do not require heating of a filament to create light. Rather, electricity is passed through a chemical compound that is excited and that generates light. LEDs are ...
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Philips Hue lights offer a glimpse into the future of the fully automated and centrally controlled hi-tech home. Installation is very simple, the E27 bulbs fit in most common fittings. Compared with certain other energy-saving and LED ...
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In photometry, luminous flux or luminous power is the measure of the perceived power of light. It differs from radiant flux, the measure of the total power of light emitted, in that luminous flux is adjusted to reflect the varying ...
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As 2013 comes, Americans say goodbye to 75-watt incandescent light bulbs. Under federal law, 75-watt bulbs can no longer be produced or imported as of January 1st, though retailers can still clear remaining stock. And traditional 60 and 40 ...
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Ambient: The surrounding light level in a given area. It is also the temperature in which a LED light source is expected to operate in. Referring to light, it is the light given off by the Sun, Moon, other light fixtures nearby or even ...
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