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On Thursday, General Electric (GE) revealed a new LED light bulb that could replace every incandescent 40-watt bulb in your house. According to CNET News, the Energy Smart LED bulb emits about 450 lumens, which is equal to the output of your average 40-watt bulb, but consumes only nine watts of power. If you used it for an average of four hours each day, the bulb could last 17 years. "This is a bulb that can virtually light your kid's bedroom desk lamp from birth through high school graduation," John Strainic, global product general manager of GE Lighting, said in a press release. But what's really different about this bulb is the design. Rather than lighting a certain spot, like most LEDs, the Energy Smart bulb has 'fingers' wrapped around it, which helps to disperse light around a room.
Of course, there's a catch to this so-called lighting miracle. The bulb will cost between $40 and $50 when it's released either this fall or early next year, and that high price on the front end could be off-putting to the average consumer. Plus, that's not to mention that Phillips will drop a similar bulb in July, but one with a lifetime of 45,000 hours, as opposed to GE's 25,000 hours.
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That might be bad news for GE, but it's good news for consumers. Competition will breed more developments and lower prices, and that will make it easier for all of us to light our houses with 'green' LED bulbs. [From: CNET News and GE
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Subscribe to commentsJanus SuarezApr 11th 2010 12:11AM
LED consumes less electricity. It is the best alternative to electric bulb recently..Maybe, they should focus on finding ways for renewable energy rather than exploring on something that consumes energy.
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JohnApr 11th 2010 2:22AM
Janus, that's a horrible idea! Stop finding ways to save energy? In case you haven't noticed, one of the biggest problems with renewable energy is figuring out how to scale it up to higher capacities. I think we're still only generating a few percent of our total power needs through renewable sources, so we HAVE to tackle the problem on both ends, not just one.
Way to go GE! I'll probably buy a few of these, and when they get 100 watt equivalent I'll replace the rest of the bulbs in my house. Never having to change another light bulb (in 17 years at least) would be worth it by itself. Cool.
Janus SuarezApr 11th 2010 4:09AM
Hey, John, if that's the problem. Then somebody out there have to spend most of the time solving it.
Horrible is not the word i think to describe it, maybe challenging. Yes, scaling up the capacities for renewable energy difficult, it is a known barrier, but , I say it's worth digging to it. If we all getting devices, no matter how small they consume those electric juices, still they'll consume it and soon we'll run out of it.
You're glorifying on something that will deplete the energy anyhow. Why not investing on ways to produce it and somehow renewable. Get out of the box john. There a lot of possibilities out there, and i hope someone out there is not wasting time finding it.
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Roger CApr 11th 2010 10:14AM
Can you imagine how mad someone would get if this thing blew out after a few months?
It doesn't matter anyway, the Chinese will make one that costs $3, if these bozos are going to charge $40-50 for one!
There had better be a guarantee at that price!
Roger CApr 11th 2010 10:15AM
Actually, at that price, I could actually see stores just selling brand new lamps with the bulbs integrated, instead of the actual bulbs alone.
KrazyCalvinApr 11th 2010 12:25PM
Looks like its time for me to start glueing some dorky fins to my compact flourescent bulbs to get some extra value out of them. These dont seem to be too much of an innovation to me. Who in the hell is likely to spend 40 dollars on a bulb when you could buy a six pack of bulbs that would last 8000 hours each... 48000 hours of the same 40 watt light power... for 23 bucks over on amazon. I looked up GE branded bulbs too to make sure it was of comparable quality. Sounds to me that for now i will go with a cheap six pack and wait the 8000 hours for each of those bulbs to die in the socket... then maybe these cfl bulbs with fins will be more realisticly priced.