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Empire State Building Goes LED
The Empire State Building, known for its ever-changing iconic lights that mark NYC’s skyline, is transitioning to LEDs as the next step in its $550 million energy efficiency retrofit. Philips (NYSE: PHG) is supplying the LEDs and is working with building management on a state-of-the-art lighting system that allows the building’s façade and mast to change lighting scenes in [...]
Philips ‘Floating’ LED Street Lights
Open Squares are common meeting places, where people like to hang around and chit chat for a while out in the open to breathe free. But, night time often makes them clutter under light posts restricting their mobility. To deal with this challenge, city planners and architects approached the Dutch Electronics giant, Phillips to design [...]
Philips New Light Bulb: Lasts for 20 Years, Costs $60
How much money is an average American consumer willing to spend on a state of the art light bulb? The United States government will be launching a new bulb, which is said to be the most energy efficient and will last for 20 years. The idea may seem like a dream come true, but the [...]
LED Market Volatility
Growth in LEDdemand—driven by broad adoption of general lighting applications—is expected to come at a fast, furious and sustained pace which analysts predict may last for a few years before the market once again pauses. The way I see it, the current lull in LED market growth actually may be a great opportunity for LED [...]
‘Aeroblades’ Street Lights by CREE
Cree has launched ‘Aeroblades,’ a series of luminaries based on the patented BetaLED technology and NanoOptic lighting control. Aeroblades have a challenging design, which is both aesthetic and also highly energy efficient. Designed with Spiers + Major to give it an ultra modern sleek look, the lights are nothing like shoebox and cobra heads, which [...]
The O’Sun Solar Powered LED Lamp
There are many parts of the world where even today electricity is a luxury and grid power just has not reached yet. These people generally tend to rely on burning some sort of fossil fuel at night for lighting and on a day when even that is scarce, darkness will have to do. This is [...]
MIT Scientists Create 230% Efficient LED Bulbs
Not only the traditional incandescent bulbs, but the Fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and even the LED lights discharge some heat as waste. The amount may vary from a zenith to nadir, but energy wastage through heat is still there. A team of MIT researchers, who addressed this issue, has emerged up with an unforeseen power-efficiency mechanism [...]
LED Streetlights from Bridgelux
Bridgelux, the LED startup that has traditionally put its technology into other customers’ lighting systems, has just launched a new business that could put it into competition with those same customers in the growing market of LED streetlights. Bridgelux announced Thursday that it’s partnering with Chevron Energy Solutions, the energy services arm of the giant [...]
LED Wafer Innovation Could Take Lighting to Next Level
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a report that forecasts the energy-savings prospectus for solid-state lighting (SSL) compared with conventional white-light sources. The 2012 update entitled “Energy Savings Potential of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination Application,” compares the annual lighting energy consumption in the US with respect to market penetration of LED lighting [...]