Comments on: LEDs And Smart Lighting Could Save Trillions Of Dollars, Spark Global Innovation

By: stephcolin

stephcolin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:54:30 +0000

Friar: I’m with you on the Christmas lights thing. I love bright, warm sparkly ones!

Beth: I’m afraid those financial savings will be a pittance compared to the debt! Though some saving is better than nothing!

Brett: Hey, I didn’t know that. Hmmm.

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:02:13 +0000

LED's are awesome - the backlight on a lot of the newer laptops is LED, which is brighter *and* uses less power - so you can see even outside in the sun, and the battery lasts longer. Also, LED's are better than CFL's as they have fewer hazardous materials and work better in cold weather than CFL's. Brett Legree’s last blog post..viking fridays - burning logs and reindeer bones.

By: Beth Partin

Beth Partin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:26:29 +0000

With those financial savings, we might be able to pay off all the bailouts! I have so much hope for the future, if our leaders will just develop some political will. Oh, wait, that's our job, isn't it...to be their "political will"? Beth Partin’s last blog post..Two Conversations in Denver

By: Friar

Friar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:36:03 +0000

I really notice some benefits of LED’s. For example, LED headlamps that you use for camping or hiking at night. They use a fraction of the batteries and are much lighter than the crummy incandescent lamps we used to have to use.

Though the one thing I dont’ like is LED Christmas lights. Yes, I know they’er supposed to save money. (And theoretically, if we were good Citizens of the earth, we wouldn’t put up Christmas lights in the fist place!)

But I LIKE Christmas ligths. And I like them bright. And the cold, forlorn-looking LED’s just dont’ cut it!