A Brighter Future for LEDs
The current growing interest in energy conservation and consumer awareness is bringing LED lights and lighted décor to the forefront. A new energy law just approved by Congress mandates that the incandescent bulb be phased off the U.S market beginning in 2012. Moving to more efficient lighting is one of the most cost efficient ways for our nation to reduce electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. In fact, this change will lower consumer’s utility bills considering ninety percent of the energy burned by an incandescent bulb is wasted as heat.
Cool White LED’s are becoming trendier
Consumers are starting to appreciate the charm of the brighter cleaner white since the elimination of blue tones from the white LEDs. This new white perfectly complements snowy winter scenes, adding a higher level of elegance not achieved with warmer, yellow hued incandescent lighting.
Rainbow of Colors
Why settle for one color when you can have many? Holiday Creation’s LED Colorwave collection is designed so that each individual lamp fades gradually through the intermediary colors as it changes from one color to the next producing a magical lighting effect. Even better is this year’s addition of an eight function controller used to choreograph cascading colors in multiple strings.
LEDs Jazz Up the Redesigned Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball
Posted January 10th, 2008 by Jesse
The ball that dropped in New York City’s Time Square to mark the start of this New Year was lit entirely by energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Redesigned for its centennial, the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball now features 9,576 high-power Luxeon LEDs from Philips Lighting and can generate more than 16 million colors, allowing the ball to create billions of color combinations.
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Ode to a Diode
National Christmas Tree Joins Other Outdoor Light Displays in Using Energy-Efficient LEDs That Save Electricity—and Money
By Daniel LeDuc Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 7, 2007;
Page B01 It takes a while for a tree to be green. For decades, the National Christmas Tree was heartily chopped down from forests throughout the nation and trucked to the White House to be decked out in lights and ornaments. Then someone finally had the idea to plant the tree, so it would grow each year; the current tree has stood in place for 28 years. Yesterday, the Colorado blue spruce passed an ecological milestone. When President Bush flicked the switch, those were not filament-burning bulbs that bedazzled the thousands who thronged the Ellipse for the annual tradition; they were glowing, energy-efficient light-emitting diodes. It was a first for the national tree and part of a new holiday tradition throughout the region, as public Christmas displays switch to bulbs that illuminate by chemical reaction. The Christmas tree at the Capitol switched two years ago. All the Christmas lights in the Maryland State House and governor’s residence in Annapolis made the change this year. Same for some of the most popular, crowd-drawing displays in the area. The new display at the National Zoo is all LED, as is the Bull Run Festival of Lights in Centreville. The Garden of Lights at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton has exchanged nearly half of its 700,000 lights for LEDs and plans to complete the rest in the coming years. The Festival of Lights at the Mormon Temple in Kensington has replaced more than three-fourths of its half-million lights and hopes to finish the rest next year.
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