{"id":1725,"date":"2006-11-06T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:49:23","slug":"replace-those-bulbs-with-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/replace-those-bulbs-with-leds\/","title":{"rendered":"Replace those bulbs with LEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember as a kid my dad showed me how to make a small cardboard Christmas tree with lights that used LEDs. It wasn’t a bright enough light to light up much at all, but now developers are predicting household lighting uses for LEDs will be practical within the next few years. From CNet<\/A>:<\/p>\n

Light-emitting diodes will become economically attractive as replacements for conventional lightbulbs in about two years, a shift that could pave the way for massive electricity conservation, according to a researcher.
\nRight now, consumers and businesses can buy a light-emitting diode, or LED, that provides about the same level of illumination as an energy-hogging conventional 60-watt lightbulb, Steven DenBaars, a professor of material science at the University of California Santa Barbara, said at the SEMI NanoForum, taking place here this week. A principal advantage of the LED: It lasts about 100,000 hours, far longer than the conventional filament bulb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Changing conventional light bulbs to LED would save everyone money. Experts predict that within two years the cost of the bulbs will be $20 a piece, but would pay for themselves within a year with reduced energy costs. But on top of reduced costs, consider the reduced energy usuage worldwide:<\/p>\n

If 25 percent of the lightbulbs in the U.S. were converted to LEDs putting out 150 lumens per watt (higher than the commercial standard now), the U.S. as a whole could save $115 billion in utility costs, cumulatively, by 2025, said DenBaars, and it would alleviate the need to build 133 new coal-burning power stations.
\nIn turn, carbon emissions in the atmosphere would go down by 258 million metric tons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m picturing a house with solar energy running LED light bulbs. I can see the meter run backwards faster and faster everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember as a kid my dad showed me how to make a small cardboard Christmas tree with lights that used LEDs. It wasn’t a bright enough light to light up much at all, but now developers are predicting household lighting uses for LEDs will be practical within the next few years. From CNet: Light-emitting … Continue reading Replace those bulbs with LEDs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[2795,484,2796,2794,1406,2797],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treehugging","tag-bulbs","tag-christmas","tag-electricity","tag-led","tag-light","tag-lightbulbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-rP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}