Re: LED lighting

[Jim Baber <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

AZ Nomad wrote:

>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)?
>
Jim replies:
Those are the numbers in the Scientific American article not mine.

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