Small British Company Develops Improved LED Bulbs
Dec 8, 2009 – Alice Pfeiffer reports in The New York Times, “Small British Company Develops Improved LED Bulbs.”
A small British company, Luminanz, founded in 2005, said it has developed an improved type of LED, which it calls the LED Luminaire, to overcome those problems.
Luminanz says its lights are suitable for a wide range of uses, from household lighting to traffic signaling, and can last for up to 50,000 hours.
The company says its design has safety advantages as well. If every household in Britain were to switch to Luminanz technology from classical light bulbs, the reduction in the consumption of electricity could cut the country’s carbon emissions by more than 1.2 million tons out of a total British carbon footprint of more than 500 million tons a year, according to the laboratory.
