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Re: LED lighting



On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:43:47 -0800, Jim Baber <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Jim Baber writes:
>They are quite expensive, but seem to be base common to regular
>incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs.

>I would wait there are other goodies in the pipeline, One is a new
>derivation on the LED that uses a LED to excite other diodes on the
>inner surface of a bulb that reportedly gives the same lumen output as a
>standard 60 W incandescent does with only 1.0 W of input power at
>115VAC.  That is much better than CFL or regular LED, but still in
>development

I find that hard to believe.  Are you saying that incandescent's
are less than 0.016% efficient (assuming that your superduper LED
is 100% efficient)?



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