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Green living, Aug 23rd, 2011,
Power failures caused by the incident at Fukushima nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami last March have sparked a new energy saving trend in Japan. Setsuden or ‘power saving’ is catching on in Japan in a big way. As far as public opinion goes, clean energy is in, nuclear and fossil fuels are out. From the Guardian: Tokyo, a bustling capital famous for its neon lights, has now turned into a city of darkened buildings and slower running trains. Billboards at major crossings flash daily rates of power consumption that tell whether the city has conserved sufficient energy to…
Tags: CFL, energy, japan, LED, light bulbs, nuclear, power, saving, setsuden
Green living, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 26th, 2010,
For those of you who didn’t swoon when Edward Norton urged us to ban the plastic bag, here is another National Geographic video featuring Hollywood starlets Natalie Portman and Chloe Sevigny. I dare you to watch it without afterwards gleefully smashing your energy-sucking bulbs and rushing out for a bunch of those efficient twirly CFL thingies. These moppets of the big screen want us to switch from incandescent to fluorescent bulbs because it will save lots of cute animals, our families and the planet. Ambitious? Well, fluorescent bulbs typically last 10 to 20 times longer are 11 times more energy…
Tags: bulbs, CFL, Chloe, efficient, energy, EU, fluorescent, LED, lighting, lights, Natalie
Green living, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 11th, 2010,
Quantum dots are tiny semiconductors with a variety of technological applications within the fields of medicine, biology, computers, solar panel technology and lighting. When filtered though quantum dots, light from LEDs (light-emitting diodes) becomes softer and more incandescent, which is generally considered more pleasing to the eye. A panel of QDs solves the ‘color quality’ issue associated with LEDs, which are far more efficient than incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs); and do not have the toxicity issues of CFLs, which contain mercury. Aesthetic objections to both CFLs and LEDs are that they give off an ‘unnatural’ light. This…
Tags: bulbs, CFL, efficient, incandescent, LED, light, lighting, nanotech, QDs, quantum dots
