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Soraa LED light may dim 50-watt halogen rivals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soraa, a Fremont, California company founded in 2008, this week launched its first product, a light that uses LEDS (light emitting diodes). The "Soraa LED MR16 lamp" is the "perfect" replacement ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

GOP wins battle of the bulb

Congress has dodged a government shutdown, agreeing to a $1 trillion spending bill that features a variety of rare compromises. Both Democrats and Republicans won some concessions, and it's too early to say who came out on ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 58

Columbia grads design solar-pillow lights for global village

(PhysOrg.com) -- World populations who live without electricity including those in disaster-stricken areas in the wake of floods, earthquakes, and other calamities are who two Columbia University graduates ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Powerful mini-LEDs for thin touchscreens

Osram Opto Semiconductors has developed an infrared light-emitting diode (IRED) for use in very thin optical touchscreens. Called the SFH 4053, the small new lamps are housed in a frame surrounding a display. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs

University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

(AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Artificial light quality affects herbivore preference for seedlings

In horticultural production, growers often depend on systems that use artificial light to produce high-quality transplants. Although the systems are efficient, fluorescent lamps can produce plants with shorter shoots than ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One million Bangladesh homes on solar power

The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark -- the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Evans Wadongo is not yet 25 but has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow Kenyans living in poor rural communities by supplying them with solar lamps.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Personal solar panel could make electricity more accessible in the developing world (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a child in Mali, Abdrahamane Traore often did his homework by the sooty, dim light of a kerosene lamp.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Marvelous light from conductor paths

Organic light-emitting diodes are seen as the basis for a new generation of lamps: Large-area lamps that can be randomly shaped and fl exibly integrated into interior design. But the "illuminated glass" is ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Energy saving lamp is eco-winner

In a new study, EMPA researchers have investigated the ecobalances of various household light sources. In doing so not only did they take into account energy consumption, but also the manufacture and disposal processes. They ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Rotating high-pressure sodium lamps provide flowering plants for spring markets

When consumers visit garden centers in spring they will most likely buy flowering ornamental plants that are ready for their home gardens. Studies have shown that consumers favor plants that are already in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lightbulbs: The more efficient they get, the more light we use

This is a cautionary tale about a few porch lights. Once upon a time, porch lights had incandescent bulbs. Eventually, many residents subbed them out with those swirly compact fluorescent bulbs, which use a quarter of the ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 20

ORNL graphite foam technology licensed to LED North America

Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that extends the life of light-emitting diode lamps has been licensed to LED North America.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0