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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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Retrofit Comparison Calculators: T5 vs Metal Halide Lighting

Posted on 18. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Looking to buy new lighting for your warehouse? Looking for a simple way to compare metal halide lighting with low-energy T5 fluorescent technologies?
The decision is a no-brainer really: high-quality intelligent T5 fittings such as the energy efficient Somar Eluma lighting system result lower energy bills, better light qualty, less light degradation and lower carbon emissions [...]

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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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Energy-Efficient Supermarket Lighting Supercharges Your Spinach

Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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File this particular study in the ‘Popeye’s Secrets’ category: not only does spinach contain plenty of key vitamins essential for a healthy existence, but it is also more potent when bought from a supermarket than pulled out of the ground.
Why? Fluorescent lighting.
According to research published in the Journal of Agricutural and Food Chemistry, energy-efficient supermarket [...]

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Dimming Coventry’s Street Lighting Will Save 40%

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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Using lighting more efficiently - and using energy efficient lighting - is an obvious way to save substantial quantities of money, energy and carbon. However, it has taken public bodies a long time to finally wake up to the clear sense behind the business case for the adoption of energy efficient technologies and practices.
According to [...]

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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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Car Park Light Switch-off Leaves Call-in Councillor In The Dark About Savings

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Devon County Council should have been basking in the glow of ecological enlightenment this week, after announcing on Monday that they were turning off their street car park lighting from 12:30am-5:30am in order to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions.
Instead, a clueless councillor on a local BBC radio show was left floundering when asked about [...]

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American Households Reject Energy Efficient Lighting

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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At the same time as countries all over the world consider following in the footsteps of Europe’s inefficient lighting ban, American consumers are voting with their wallets against efficient CFL lighting.
Ironically, it’s costing them more money.
Compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) cost as little as $2 per bulb, last 7 times longer than conventional incandescent bulbs and [...]

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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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Energy Efficiency Can Destroy Drax Power Station

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Drax Power Station in Yorkshire, UK is the biggest power station in Western Europe. By burning up to 36,000 tonnes of coal a day and producing 22,800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, Drax supplies 7% of the UK’s entire energy needs.
And it’s totally pointless.
In an interview with BBC Radio about the launch of the Big [...]

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Efficient Light Bulbs Replace Banned Incandescents In Europe

Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Europe is dimming the light more than two centuries of incandescent lighting, as an European Union (EU)-wide ban on 100W and frosted incandescent bulbs kicks in.
As part of the EU strategy on climate change, old-fashioned and inefficient incandescent bulbs are being phased out and replaced by much more efficient fluorescent or halogen lighting, which are [...]