Why the buzz about LED lighting?

LED Lighting was until quite recently a little known backwater in the field of domestic/commercial lighting solutions with few practical applications and few fans. Well that was then. This is now.

The stark reality now is that oil is running out fast which is going to result in HUGE increases in the cost of energy. And that’s why LED lighting is fast becoming one of the hottest emerging technologies around and one of the coolest domestic/commercial lighting solutions available.

They cost almost nothing to run (and can be easily powered by solar power and other renewable energy sources), don’t wreck the environment, look fantastic and go on quietly doing this for decades.

The energy required to power wasteful incandescent lamps, that throw up to 98% of that energy away as heat, comes from electricity generating power stations that themselves pump waste heat AND carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

And that’s all before you factor in the energy (and therefore ever more expensive fuel and environmental damage) required to keep making all the replacement incandescent / halogen bulbs you will need to continue illuminating your home or business.

A regular 60w incandescent light bulb has a life of little more than 1,000 hours which means you will have to purchase a whopping 50 replacements over the same lifetime as an LED equivalent, if we said the LED only had a lifetime of 50,000 hours.  In truth, with the proper installation and conditions, they can last up to  100,000 hours!

Multiplied by billions of people, that’s cost, waste and pollution on a truly heroic scale.

So if you want to talk LEDs, their benefits and the savings available, talk to Sin Fin at the 2008 Yellow Sunshine Coast Home Show and Outdoor Adventure Expo, Site Number U109 in Pavilion 2.