Ikea to sell only LED-based lighting by 2016, wants to be greener than your sofa bed (engadget)

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by Jon Fingas | @jonfingas | October 1st 2012 at 1:48 pm

While some wouldn't necessarily associate Ikea with eco-friendliness given that its business revolves around plywood, the furniture chain has just staked out a clearer position as a green pioneer. It's phasing out sales of all lighting that isn't LED-based by 2016, making it the first major home furnishing shop with a US presence to entirely banish less efficient illumination. Ikea also wants to take advantage of its economies of scale with the "lowest price on the market" for LEDs, which could shake up an industry where anything beyond incandescent technology usually carries a premium. We'll still have some time to wait for the full switch, but the company at least plans to practice what it preaches by replacing over a million store lights with LEDs -- so those of us with no light replacement plans can still feel as green as the Beddinge Håvet we're taking home.
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/01/ikea-to-sell-only-led-based-lighting-by-2016/





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[FBaggins]

1. I thought they already had

I don't think that I've seen other bulbs there in some time.

OTOH - I've had trouble with IKEA's LEDs. They're (in my experience anyway) more heat-sensitive than the others that I've used (blinking on and off in many fixtures)

[madokie]

3. The led that I purchased at home depot get pretty dang hot

and that worries me. In a lamp like I have it in now where air can flow around it unimpeded it doesn't seem to get too hot but when I had it in a different lamp that doesn't let air circulate around it so freely it got pretty dang hot, enough to worry me about it's claimed lifetime of whatever it said on the package, can't remember what it said but it was measured in years. As time goes on as I replace the CFL's with LEDs I'll have to change the fixtures out on a bunch of our lighting I'm afraid. I mean its no big deal its only money and after a while its time to upgrade anyway, right the fixtures we have now aren't enclosed but they do have a hood over them that traps the heat and thats probably why the CFLs haven't lasted as long as I had hoped so its fixture changing time anyway. I'll go into the fixture choosing this time armed with a little bit more knowledge about what I'm to buy so that is good. I like learning

[madokie]

2. I purchased a 60 watt equivalent LED at home depot

a couple months ago for 6 bucks and change. I wish I'd have bought 10 of them. I put it in my reading lamp by my bed and I can't believe how much light it puts out. I took out a 60 watt equivalent CFL and I swear it is brighter than the CFL was. Much easier on the eyes too. Its a whiter light and I like that about it. Makes reading easier on my eyes but it takes longer for me to get sleepy and that part I don't like so much as I read when I go to bed to help in falling asleep