LED Lighting Efficiency

Here’s a breakdown on the efficiency of the different lighting options available today.

Incandescent bulbs are the most power wasteful bulbs you can use. They create very little light for the power they consume; the rest of the energy they use produces heat. If you are using many incandescent bulbs the production of the heat not only wastes power in the light production, it also causes your air conditioners to work harder to mitigate the unneeded heat the incandescent light bulbs put out.

Fluorescent bulbs produce little heat and as a result are not wasteful in that respect, however they are wasteful in the way they distribute their light. Fluorescent bulbs are in no way directional. You can not put the light where you need it. This is fine if you are lighting a large room, as in an office full of employees, however; if you are lighting a room in your house, led bulbs are the choice for you.

LED bulbs are designed to fit standard bases, this means you can put them in every fixture in your home that you would normally install an incandescent bulb. The current LED bulbs available on the market today produce approximately the same amount of light per watt as compact fluorescent bulbs. Their light is clear and bright rather than the yellowish tint of the incandescent bulb.

In using the LED bulb over the standard incandescent bulb, you can save up to 90% on your electrical costs.

Green Electronics Future

One of the new innovations around the corner is something Apple has applied for a patent for. It’s a technological advance that would allow computer screens to act as solar panels. How this is done, there will be plenty of speculation about, as it is quite an interesting idea, but nothing has come to light about it yet.

How many electronic devices do you use daily? It’s pretty much guaranteed that you have a cell phone and most likely a laptop computer. A digital camera is also a likelihood. Do you have a radio you carry around with you? All of these things use some sort of battery. Wouldn’t it be nice if they were solar powered? I have seen ‘wind up’ computers that really do work, but it’s doubtful our high tech society would ever stoop to winding up our computers to get them to work.

Since (for now) our electronics are still battery powered, there are things you can do to make them at least somewhat greener. First off, only use rechargeable batteries. Currently our society uses almost incalculable numbers of batteries that after a short life span, ends up in our dumps. With rechargeable batteries, there will be fewer waste products and when you’re finished with them recycle them.

Green Electronics A New Trend

Green electronics – and green everything else – is the wave of the future, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is crazy about the idea. Despite the fact that there are many people who are interested in saving the planet, there are also a lot of people who aren’t so keen on it when it comes to their electronics because they are worried about whether going green will affect the quality and raise the price.

These are important concerns, and while the quality of green electronics is expected to be the same, many of them do actually cost more than their non-green counterparts. It’s a price that not everyone is willing to pay.

For those that are willing to pay a little bit more to help protect the environment, green electronics can be a great idea. Buying green is an easy thing to do and a simple way to see that the environment is better protected than it has been in the past. It’s very easy, and many people get a lot of joy from ensuring that the planet will be around and in good shape for future generations of individuals. Even though the trend has not caught on that strongly, more and more people are moving toward it, and it looks like it’ll stick around in the future.