Are you still using incandescent light bulbs? As we all know that home lighting accounts for about 20% of the average home’s electricity bill. So switching to compact flourescent or LED bulbs will cut down your electricity bill.
Here are the pros and cons for LED:
LEDs LED technology allows for a large amount of light to [...]
Are you still using incandescent light bulbs? As we all know that home lighting accounts for about 20% of the average home’s electricity bill. So switching to compact flourescent or LED bulbs will cut down your electricity bill.
Here are the pros and cons for LED:
LEDs LED technology allows for a large amount of light to [...]
It is claimed from Korea Researchers that the world’s first purely white LED (light-emitting diode) has been produced in Korea.
Soo-Young Park, a professor of organic materials for photonics at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea, led the group, which includes researchers from the University of Valencia in Spain.
LEDs [...]
This artical shows you how to push a 1920s house into a modern, low-carbon age. The last few touches – appliances and rare light bulbs.
After spending the past year reducing the home’s heating bills by adding stacks of insulation, the owner has now turned her attention to slashing her electricity needs. She buy electricity from [...]
As we all know that LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulbs which will consume even less power than the CFL bulbs and once the mass production of Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs will start, its cost will go down. Gradually the era of electric bulbs will come to an end and only CFL bulbs will exist [...]
Until recently, most of us have used the incandescent lighting, which renders the color of objects more closely to that of natural light, in our homes. Fluorescent light was harsh and cold and typically used in offices.
Light is categorized by its color rendering index, or CRI for short, and its color temperature. CRI is how [...]
The U.S. based “Lighting Science Group (LSG)” has announced the launch of its new line of LED light bulbs. The new product series, which include the industry’s widest line of LED lamps, were specially designed for both commercial and residential lighting applications. Offering what is claimed to be unparalleled light output and requiring no special [...]
High price and a strange color. No, we’re not talking about a hairdo. Those are the two factors that have kept light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, from becoming a mainstream light source.
But that might change soon, said Zach Gibler, chief business development officer of Lighting Science Group, which plans to announce distribution deals with major retailers [...]
American government says that if every American home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, we could save enough energy to prevent greenhouse gases equal to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars. Certainly great news, yet recycling burned-out CFL light bulbs poses a quandary for homeowners. The Pharox bulb ($59) is [...]
We’ve likely all experienced the bothersome inconvenience of having to change a light bulb located in a hard-to-reach place. Maybe a lofty porch light burns out, or a chandelier bulb dies. These can be difficult to get to, and many times they are lights that are left on for many hours throughout the day, so [...]