As the United States make a big push to replace millions of older technology incandescent light bulbs with the newly developed LED and other types of bulbs there has been a lot of apprehension, anxiety and even resentment over the change. People are attached to their old ways, to be sure, but letting go of the old bulbs is proving exceedingly hard.
Except for Michigan, however, where LED lights have not only started to reduce their energy costs… Read more
10th Sep 2012
Around the world there is a real push by the people who run things to make the change from old-style incandescent bulbs to the new technology lights like LEDs that use less energy and create less waste.
One of the biggest obstacles in this push to make the change is simply this; people.
The new technologies represent a change and, as with practically all great changes that have occurred in human history, this change is being met with a lot of h… Read more
Light. During the day we of course take it for granted because there’s plenty of it provided by the sun, but at night we would literally still be living in the dark ages if not for the invention of a single household gadget that all of us humans also take completely for granted; the incandescent light bulb.
The invention of the incandescent light bulb led to the complete transformation of most of the first world and a big transformation in the r… Read more
6th Sep 2012
Around the world some of the biggest of the major cities are making a big change to their infrastructure; they’re replacing light bulbs. Now while that might not seem like the perfect way to save energy it actually is on the planning books for many countries that are energy starved and need to cut consumption. It seems that the vast majority of our beloved light bulbs are highly inefficient and wasteful and so need to be replaced.
And lest you t… Read more