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  1. 04-11-2013, 08:48 AM #1
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    Dutch Phillips reveals most energy efficient ledlights

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22106718

    Lighting company Philips has developed an LED lamp that it describes as "the world's most energy-efficient".
    It said the prototype tube lighting LED is twice as efficient as those currently used in offices and industry around the world but offers the same amount of light.
    Being able to halve the amount of energy used could bring huge cost and energy savings.
    Lighting accounts for more than 19% of global electricity consumption.
    The prototype tube lighting produces 200 lumens per watt (200lm/W) compared with 100lm/W for equivalent strip lighting and 15lm/W for traditional light bulbs.

    In the US, for example, such lighting consumes around 200 terawatts of electricity annually. Swapping to the energy-efficient lamps could save $12bn (£7.8bn) and stop 60 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, according to Philips.
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    You have to admit, those guys at Phillips are very bright.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    You have to admit, those guys at Phillips are very bright.
    I take a dim view of puns, sir.
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    All well and good but, the law of unintended consequences strikes again: once LEDs have taken over, what are future cartoonists going to use to indicate that one of their characters has gotten an idea?
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    All well and good but, the law of unintended consequences strikes again: once LEDs have taken over, what are future cartoonists going to use to indicate that one of their characters has gotten an idea?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KKM View Post
    Yeah, but try to draw that in pen and ink. It just ain't the same.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Yeah, but try to draw that in pen and ink. It just ain't the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KKM View Post
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    See what I mean?
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KKM View Post
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    I think Arby's already uses that one:

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    I'll be happy when reasonably priced LED's arrive down here. Those CFL bulbs are supposed to last a long time, but I find their lifetimes are about the same as incandescent bulbs. They just self-destruct in a different manner. Some brands of CFL bulbs that I have bought were quickly gifted to friends, who live a long way from my house, after I found out how much RFI they generated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KKM View Post
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    Has anyone made a condom joke yet?
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