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Tue Aug-09-11 10:22 PM
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| 10. I think LEDs are getting ready to get a strong, unanticipated boost. |
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The Japanese press has been spreading the word that if Japan moves from fluorescent lights (incandescents have been rare for decades) they will save power equivalent to the output of 4 nuclear reactors. I'd be willing to bet money that several hundred million LED lights will be retailed in the next 2 years there. That should be good news for prices everywhere.
It also underscores the amount of good this one change could result in if adopted universally here where we have enarly 3X the population and incandescents still rule. Has anyone seen an estimate of the total amount of energy used in lighting that would be saved by going totally to LEDs here?
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| -A Winning (LED) Light Bulb With the Potential to Save the Nation Billions |
OKIsItJustMe |
Aug-09-11 06:09 PM |
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I hope they got the cost down...I have some LEDS in the kitchen. |
Historic NY |
Aug-09-11 06:12 PM |
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Electrical Company already raised our rates to take any savings we had away. |
glinda |
Aug-09-11 06:16 PM |
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Here too. Michigan's Consumers Energy announced just this morning avg. bill going up by $8 a month |
Purveyor |
Aug-09-11 06:51 PM |
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Your electric bill goes up every year or two like clockwork -- that is why so many want off the grid |
txlibdem |
Aug-09-11 07:10 PM |
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That isn't what your graph or the historical record of electric prices shows |
kristopher |
Aug-10-11 07:23 AM |
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Get your eyes checked and look at the graph again, and you are looking at the chart wrong |
txlibdem |
Aug-10-11 09:56 AM |
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Fascinating... |
kristopher |
Aug-10-11 02:06 PM |
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"Real" per the chart: "calculated by using gross domestic product implicit price deflators" |
txlibdem |
Aug-10-11 04:40 PM |
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"Real" as in a meaningful measure over time. |
kristopher |
Aug-12-11 11:17 AM |
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I don't see a price listed in the article. |
idiotgardener |
Aug-09-11 07:34 PM |
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Price, the technology and could we have had these years ago |
txlibdem |
Aug-09-11 08:51 PM |
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Thanks for the info! |
idiotgardener |
Aug-09-11 10:41 PM |
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High intensity blue LEDS weren't available before 1993. |
hunter |
Aug-10-11 10:07 AM |
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I remember it like it was yesterday (seriously, I remember who told me the news) |
OKIsItJustMe |
Aug-10-11 10:32 AM |
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Blue was the most difficult LED to develop IIRC |
txlibdem |
Aug-11-11 10:25 PM |
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Nor a lumens rating. |
Ready4Change |
Aug-09-11 09:47 PM |
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I haven't noticed a significant difference |
idiotgardener |
Aug-09-11 10:42 PM |
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I don't think that is true. |
kristopher |
Aug-09-11 10:58 PM |
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I share your experience with CFL lights, that's why I'm so happy LED light bulbs are finally here |
txlibdem |
Aug-10-11 07:59 AM |
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“18 months of intensive field, lab and product testing” |
OKIsItJustMe |
Aug-10-11 10:03 AM |
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I learned that the best way I can give corruption the finger. |
Firebrand Gary |
Aug-09-11 06:45 PM |
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Switch, a Florida company, will start selling their 100 watt replacement in the fall 2011 |
txlibdem |
Aug-09-11 07:46 PM |
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I think LEDs are getting ready to get a strong, unanticipated boost. |
kristopher |
Aug-09-11 10:22 PM |
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We may as well get started convincing our conservative friends, family and neighbors |
idiotgardener |
Aug-09-11 10:52 PM |
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Actually, anti-CFL propaganda may help LED adoption |
caraher |
Aug-10-11 09:30 PM |
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Just wait til the anti-LED propaganda starts. You KNOW it's coming. |
kestrel91316 |
Aug-11-11 10:39 AM |
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In truth, CFLs are their own anti-CFL propaganda campaign |
txlibdem |
Aug-11-11 10:35 PM |
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Depends on the situation. |
Nihil |
Aug-12-11 03:40 AM |
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We both have our anectodal evidence it seems |
txlibdem |
Aug-12-11 07:03 AM |
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Definitely. |
Nihil |
Aug-12-11 08:39 AM |
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I used to think that CFL would be my stepping stone till LED bulbs came down in price |
txlibdem |
Aug-12-11 10:56 PM |
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Any downsides to LED? |
dbackjon |
Aug-11-11 12:10 PM |
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I think the main issues are cost and directionality. And maybe weight. |
caraher |
Aug-11-11 09:05 PM |
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Breakage, no. Disposal, they should be recycled |
txlibdem |
Aug-11-11 09:44 PM |
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The fabrication process is far from environmentally friendly |
IDemo |
Aug-13-11 07:17 AM |
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The only valid comparison for me is equivalent lumens from a CFL, since |
kestrel91316 |
Aug-12-11 01:33 PM |
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I'd add temperature to that... |
kristopher |
Aug-12-11 03:44 PM |
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