Kill the fluorescent lighting in favor of softer, more ambient lighting, Foss adds.
He'd provide an Internet marketplace where small and medium-size businesses could buy routine supplies, from paper clips to fluorescent lighting fixtures.
High cost has thus far limited widespread adoption of LED lighting, which is far more efficient than either incandescent or compact fluorescent lighting.
Remember those bi-partisan Congressional votes phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favor of fragile mercury-laden, landfill-destined compact fluorescent lighting to clearly dispel any such illusions.
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Another innovation: square tiles of light that could replace fluorescent office ceiling lighting.
And the new lighting feels fluorescent and cold.
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The phone detects the kind of lighting in use at the user's location-such as fluorescent, incandescent, and natural lighting-and automatically adjusts the screen's color balance to the optimal setting.
The intersection of new energy efficiency regulations and the maturation of the technology mean LEDs, which are more efficient than even compact fluorescent bulbs, are the future of lighting.
It was also a big week for lighting news as we learned that compact fluorescent light bulbs emit potentially harmful UV radiation -- another good reason to make the switch to LEDs.
This happened in Japan, where low-energy fluorescent light now accounts for more than 95% of residential lighting.
Lights suck up more than 15 percent of all energy produced globally, and fluorescent lights currently make up more than half of the total lighting market.
He claimed that in 10 years, LEDs will replace at least half of the world's fluorescent bulbs, which have been the main source of workplace lighting since shortly after World War II.
Yale economist William Nordhaus examined the history of lighting technologies, from open fires and stone animal fat lamps in ancient times to modern incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
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