On the eve of Christmas 2007, quite a few obituaries for incandescent light bulbs were penned.
Our target is to make the price of this bulb equivalent to incandescent light.
Plus, people simply look better under soft incandescent light reason enough to keep them legal.
He also called on Congress to ban incandescent light bulbs and require better gas mileage for cars.
"An orchestra warming up, that's like an incandescent light, " explains Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University.
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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After all, the commercially viable incandescent light bulb was the product of an entire team, not the single inventor we were taught in fifth grade.
There were 425 million 60-watt incandescent light bulbs sold last year in the U.S., so there is surely money to be made replacing some of these.
The bulb triumphed in the Bright Tomorrow competition run by the US Department of Energy that aimed to find an energy efficient alternative to the 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
In the ad promoting the clean-diesel version of the Audi A3, ordinary citizens are high-handedly arrested for using plastic instead of paper, for possessing old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs and even for not recycling orange rinds.
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The company made some mis-steps en route to its technological triumph last week, but Edison made literally thousands of mis-steps in developing the incandescent light bulb, and in the end the venture was so successful it was declaring a new dividend every Saturday evening.
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As detailed in the recently released 2010 Sustainability Report, the company has taken on various eco-initiatives, including an aggressive (and early) phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, the installation of solar panels on numerous U.S. stores, and the introduction of the IKEA Product Sustainability Scorecard.
Tungsten, as a material, was much used in the filaments of incandescent electric light bulbs.
Similarly, Thomas Edison and his Muckers changed our world with the phonograph when he was just thirty years old, and the incandescent electric light-bulb at thirty-two.
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The potential to replace incandescent and fluorescent light with LED is just huge.
Light emitting diodes, or LEDs, could work nicely as replacements for incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
This could involve you changing your light fittings from incandescent to fluorescent, or even changing your gas and electric service providers, and will help you to save money on the daily, weekly and annual costs of your household heating.
The basics: As you probably know, Congress passed a law that basically compels the lighting industry is phasing out the warm and incredibly inefficient light provided by incandescent bulbs, which are nice for a warm glow, but not so nice for the Earth or your energy bill.
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Another step forward has been organic LEDs (OLEDs) which also promise greater efficiency and better light than older, incandescent bulbs.
Then, DallePezze, you hit them with the savings, which, roughly are this: An LED standard light bulb versus an incandescent one will save up to 80% of energy or 50 cents per lamp a year.
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Reports are surfacing of a problem with the camera both stills and video when it is pointed close to or at bright light sources such as incandescent bulbs or the sun, which causes a purple haze to be shown in the fringes.
But artificial light, whether of the incandescent, fluorescent or LED variety, contains a different mixture of frequencies from that put out by the sun.
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The Helieon emits the same amount of light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb but uses just a fraction of the electricity needed to do so.
In theory, a 7.5-watt TLED could generate as much light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb.
Compact fluorescents use about one-third as much electricity as incandescent bulbs to produce the same amount of light.
They are, well, light years away from the simple incandescent bulbs the Philips brothers made when they started the business back in 1891.
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The DoE challenged firms to develop a design that gave out a warm light similar to that from an incandescent bulbs but was much more energy efficient.
While a typical incandescent bulb uses 60 watts of power to generate light, the current state of LED technology can produce the same light for less than 10 watts.
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