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Saturday September 11th 2010

Posts Tagged ‘light bulbs’

BYE BYE INCANDESCENT LIGHTS

BYE BYE INCANDESCENT LIGHTS

SHIFTING TO LED In 1980, we met the compact fluorescent light. Ugh! Small and twisty with nasty contents. You KNOW something THAT bad must have an environmental justification. Compact fluorescents (CFLs) are just just - I dunno - wrong! The color is off, the shapes are off, they're just not RIGHT! They say we're sposed  to use more [...]

The Future Of Light

The Future Of Light

SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY: Cheap, bright, and disposable. ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS I've never been a big fan of light coming from walls. Too much pressure on the dust devils. But ACS Nano describes a new kind of light source made from graphene which consists of sheets of ultra efficient [...]