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Household Flourescent Lights Finally Catch Up With Commercial Lighting

Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Commercial light fittings which use energy-saving fluorescent lighting, such as the intelligent Somar Eluma warehouse lighting system, have been offering businesses massive savings on their lighting bills for years now, through combinations of efficient lamps, high-quality reflectors, occupancy sensing and daylight harvesting. Until now, however, household compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) have struggled to afford the [...]

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LED Lighting Still Not Ready For Commercial Buildings

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will remain too expensive for mainstream commercial applications for the next decade compared to other energy-efficient lighting systems like Somar Eluma.
Despite grand predictions of LED lighting taking over the world, and of rapidly falling costs in the manufacture of these semiconductor-based low-carbon lights, they will remain too expensive to effectively compete against [...]

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Carbon Trust Puts Energy Saving LED Lighting Against The Wall

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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When it comes to helping businesses save money and carbon through energy efficiency, the Carbon Trust has seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
Through interest-free loans via the Carbon Trust’s Big Business Refit to businesses looking to save energy, as well as helping the UK’s biggest companies slash energy operating costs, the Carbon [...]

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Mercury-Free Energy Efficient Lighting From Vu1

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Almost as quickly as they emerged, the new energy-efficient lighting technologies of compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) may already have become redundant, according to a Seattle-based lighting company.
Vu1 is creating a range of new lighting systems using a process it calls Electron Stimulated Luminesence. As well as providing a superior [...]

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LED Lighting: Guiding Light Or False Dawn?

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Ross.

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As the downward spiral in the world economy forces companies to look to protect their profits and CO2 targets translate into restrictive corporate financial penalties, a range of new technologies and products from the burgeoning green and clean technology sectors promise substantial savings in energy, money and carbon emissions. One such technology competing for the [...]