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Originally posted by DJ_Elyot How much UV do they give off... obviously the white light contains all the colours from the visible spectrum, but how much other light is it also giving off? Also, I'd want to know if there are more or less efficient than fluorescent bulbs...

Meh, what's the difference with respect to UV - if it emits too much, they can just use a filter coating.

The most efficient fluorescents are CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Light, not Canadian Football League), which supposedly use 66% less energy on average than incandescents, so theoretically this LED invention is less efficient. But fluorescents also drive people crazy and only last 10 times as long as incandescents, whereas LEDs emit stable light and this invention lasts 50 times as long. LEDs are also dirt cheap to manufacture - once this gets industrialized, I can't imagine it costing even half as much as a fluorescent bulb.

Hope the guy's got a patent out - he stands to make a lot of money from this thing.

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Interesting.... It's awesome how people stumble across things like this. all I have to say is they descovered it they will be making lots of money from it. good for them

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Originally posted by DigiNut Hope the guy's got a patent out - he stands to make a lot of money from this thing.

I'm sure he's protected his invention, he seems like a bright guy.

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Originally posted by amb_ I'm sure he's protected his invention, he seems like a bright guy.

I just spit fucking water all over the place 'cause of this

^^^^

orange juice...now water??

cale u have to learn not to drink while reading TA.




and yes very cool indeed.

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So does that mean we'll need to plug our "light tables" into power points and stuff? Seems rather impractical. It might replace the lightbulb, but I can't see it coating household items like tables and chairs if it still needs to be plugged in.

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Originally posted by marcusus So does that mean we'll need to plug our "light tables" into power points and stuff? Seems rather impractical. It might replace the lightbulb, but I can't see it coating household items like tables and chairs if it still needs to be plugged in.

picture your walls being a light source with a dimmer. you would have uniform lighting everywhere.

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Good point.

Although it'd probably take a bit of getting used to.

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