LED Lighting — one step further

LED lighting is the future. This is going to reduce our electric consumption in a big way. We’re using LEDs in bike lights, flash lights and stop lights, but because of various challenges, we haven’t reached the point where we can use them everywhere in our houses. This article in the NYTimes shows and interesting concept to solve one of the challenges — heat.

Because LED light sources generate all their heat through the rear, manufacturers are adding heat sinks to dramatically increase the surface area and let the heat dissipate rapidly. Without them, the LED fixture would lose its color accuracy and have a dramatically shortened life.

I love the track lighting concept — it looks good.

L.E.D - the future of lighting

These light emitting diodes bulbs fit right into a regular light bulb socket but they only use 1 watt of power! Not only that, they only last 100,000 + hours (that’s 11 1/2 years) before you need to change them. Of course, they only use 1/100th the power of a regular bulb and they can run on 6v or 12v DC batteries (perfect for a solar solution). I’m pretty sure they’re expensive, however, the prices of these LEDs are coming down, and when they do, you can say good-bye to the compact florecent lights. But that’s not all, check out this nano LED breakthrough where they claim to improve the efficency by 7.5 times