Jamie Le Souef

LED Lighting Fixtures of Morrisville, North Carolina will announce today that it has made a technology breakthrough that will dramatically lower the cost of LEDs (light emitting diodes).CEO Neal Hunter told the Raleigh News and Observer that his company is developing a lamp that uses less energy than its current LED fixtures but emits the same amount of light. He said a just-released federal study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology confirms that the product is the most efficient in the world. It uses 5.8 watts of power, compared with 60 watts for an equally bright incandescent bulb.

According to the National Institute report, the new fixture uses less than 9 percent of the energy consumed by common bulbs and less than 30 percent of that consumed by fluorescent lights. LLF’s best existing product consumes 15 percent of the energy used by an incandescent bulb and 50 percent of that used by fluorescents.

Hunter said he hopes to debut the brighter and more efficient lamps by the end of 2008. The first buyers will likely be wholesale distributors, followed by consumers off store shelves by 2009.

Semiconductor-based LEDs use much less power than traditional bulbs, don’t contain mercury like fluorescents, and they last for years, sometimes even decades. Recent years have seen very exciting developments in this area, with Orlando, Ann Arbor, Detroit and Taiwan announcing switches of traffic lights to LEDs. This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York will even be lit with the technology — strung along 5 miles of wire!

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Bai Zijian Says

Great post on leds. Cheaper leds would definitely mean cheaper consoles for everyone.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

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