Archive for June, 2009

U.S. Department of Energy LED outlook

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, in the next 20 years, rapid adoption of LED lighting in the U.S. can:
- Reduce electricity demands from lighting by 62%
- Eliminate 258 million metric tons of carbon emissions
- Avoid building 133 new power plants
- Anticipate financial savings that could exceed $115 billion

Visible Light Solar Combines Solar With LEDs For Big Savings

Makes sense to combine technologies like solar with LED to get the greatest bang for the buck, which is exactly what Visible Light Solar is doing. Even if the lighting works for unsexy things like exterior building lights around business parks, saving up to 85% on your energy usage sounds pretty sexy indeed.
While there are [...]

Parking Lot and Garage LED Lighting

Parking lots and garages can represent a challenging environment for lighting solutions. The lighting must economically accommodate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, must endure harsh environments and must address public safety considerations. Parking garage lighting is an excellent application for LED lighting for several reasons.

Most parking garage lights burn 24 hours-a-day – during peak electrical rates.
The [...]

LED Indoor Lighting

The biggest potential opportunity for LED lighting technology is indoor lighting, which represents many different applications, configurations and forms. One of the first applications or segments addressed by LED lighting is task lighting and directional down lighting traditionally served by incandescent and halogen light sources. This type of lighting is seen as under-counter lighting, desk [...]

LED Street Lighting

Streetlights represent an attractive application for LED lighting due to several factors:
* Large number of streetlights. * High maintenance costs due to height and location over public roadways. * Growing community pressure to implement. “full cut-off” solutions to minimise glare and light pollution. * Desire for white light.
LED streetlights are now available from a variety [...]

50-LED Solar Motion Floodlight

Since the 50-LED Solar Motion Floodlight relies on the power of the sun to get it going, you don’t have to worry about spoiling your room with ugly wiring.

A bright way to be good to the Earth

You want to be environmentally conscious, but doing so can be damned inconvenient. For example, replacing one of your incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents can save about $30 of power over the lifetime of the bulb. Not bad, but fluorescents are dim, and they flicker. Plus, while they do last 10 times longer than incandescents, [...]

LED Underground Lamp

Molten aluminum body,stainless steel polishing or Aluminum alloy faceplate,waterproof tie-in,silica gel rubber airproof cover,arc poly angle refractable glass,durable,waterprllf,dustproof and no creepage. LED lamp-house,various colors compounding-form as single color,double colors,seven colors gradual changing and seven colors jumpy changing. Extensively applied in lighting of village,courtyard,downtown street,etc,bring splendid scenes to life.
Underground lamp: input voltage: AC220V/110V, protection grade: IP67, [...]