News tagged with light bulbs
All set and ready to glow
A new technique that paves the way for manufacturing affordable LED light bulbs is to be exploited in the UK, in a deal that researchers say could have a dramatic impact on carbon emissions.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Building a better light bulb
Scientists study the movement of charge carriers to design an organic LED that is energy efficient and still casts a warm, natural glow.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Next-generation light bulb shines at CES
A California startup out to change the world shined at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday with a light bulb blending beauty and efficiency with love for the Earth.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 13, 2012 |
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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
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Biopixels: Researchers create living 'neon signs' composed of millions of glowing bacteria (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Los Alamos instrument to shine light on Mars habitability
With the successful launch of the Mars Science Laboratory on Saturday, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the energy ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2011 |
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A bright idea: Energy-saving apps
It's possible that Tanya Morris has become something of a pest. And she delights in it. Wherever she goes, she's likely to whip out her iPad and open her favorite app: the Light Bulb Finder.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Alternative LED lighting combats energy crisis
Alternative lighting is emerging as a potent method to combat the energy crisis. Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Researchers roll out a new form of lighting
In this month's edition of Physics World, Paul Blom and Ton van Mol from the Holst Centre in Eindhoven describe a way of creating thin, flexible sheets of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using a cheap, newspaper-style "roll- ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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LED startup Switch Lighting hopes to light the way in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks - but not light bulbs.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2011 |
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No-chemicals solar powered bug killer seeks Europe expansion
(PhysOrg.com) -- AgriSolar this week announced an aggressive push into the European market for its no-chemicals insect killer that makes use of solar power to heat special insect-zapping light bulbs. AgriSolar ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 02, 2011 |
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Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with living things
Human devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand, send signals and perform work using ions or protons.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Light from a water bottle could brighten millions of poor homes (w/ video)
As simple as it sounds, a one-liter plastic bottle filled with purified water and some bleach could serve as a light bulb for some of the millions of people who live without electricity. Originally developed ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2011 |
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'White' light suppresses the body's production of melatonin
Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin 5 times more than exposure to the light of High Pressure Sodium bulbs that give off an orange-yellow light. "Just as there are regulations and standards ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Bacteria -- energy producers of the future? (w/ video)
All of us use water and in the process, a lot of it goes to waste. Whether it goes down drains, sewers or toilets, much of it ends up at a wastewater treatment plant where it undergoes rigorous cleaning before it flows back ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 22, 2011 |
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