China's government has been providing subsidies to help its domestic LED industry. Some firms have been benefitting but others remain in limbo amid rapid product price falls. Slowing demand for LED billboards According to sources from ...
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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 ...
"Oh Kickstarter, is there anything you can't do?" Apparently not, given the supremely exciting level of participation in the Kickstarter effort for the LIFX, a WiFi-enabled, multi-colored, energy-efficient LED light bulb that you can ...
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Start to look into LED lighting and quickly it becomes obvious that one type of LED will not suit all situations. After a while, you get sophisticated enough to take colour-rendering index (CRI) and colour temperature into account, ...
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The Ministry of Economic Affairs is studying the feasibility of subsidizing households which replace fluorescent lighting and incandescent lights with energy-efficient and higher-priced LED light bulbs, Vice Minister of Economic Affairs ...
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Taiwan government to extend subsidies for procuring LED light bulbs Siu Han,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 28 September 2012]The Taiwan government plans to increase 2012 energy-saving subsidies from the original NT$700 million(US$23 ...
The global LED light bulb retail pricing has been falling steadily. According to studies, the price of 40W retrofit LED light bulbs dropped on average by 2.2% to US$19/unit in August 2012. The lowest price available was below US$10/unit. ...
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A new piece of equipment that can measure the intensity of LEDs has been developed by Missouri University of Science and Technology. The long-standing problem many cities have regarding their traffic light bulb maintenance and the ...
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There is plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt out there over the upcoming federal ban on incandescent light bulbs. The very thought of losing that pear-shaped giver of warm, yellow light drove Europeans to hoard Edison's invention as the ...
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An inventor from San Franciso is claiming that he has created the"world's smartest energy efficient light bulb". Phil Bosua designed the Wi-Fi enabled lamp,LIFX(pronounced'life ex'),which can be controlled from a smartphone. Variables ...
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If you're only going to choose just one lighting feature to add your kitchen, make it under cabinet lighting. It provides task lighting for your countertops to make them ideal for food preparation and cooking, it illuminates the backsplash ...
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The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce recognized Firefly LED Lighting - as the winner of the Technology Award in the small business division at the 2012 Greater Austin Business Awards on August 30. "We recognize these businesses as ...
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A new Kickstarter project created by Phil Bosua following six months of work on dozens of prototypes is aiming to reinvent a technology that essentially hasn't changed very much in the last 100 years: the light bulb. Sure, we've all ...
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Beth Johnson, a doctoral candidate in entomology, said, "LED lighting can be a powerful resource to plant biologists due to the manipulability of the spectrum." Her research is focusing on insect/plant chemical interactions. Currently she ...
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It's a rare event when one technological breakthrough can have far-reaching effects in fields as diverse as stage lighting, horticulture, entomology, energy management, and potentially, space colonization. Penn State researchers from ...
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